The century old tradition of feeding elk outside Yellowstone could end up severely hurting the population by spreading chronic wasting disease.
Keep reading How quickly will national elk feeding grounds spread chronic wasting disease?
 By calling manta rays a vulnerable species, scientists hope to stop or at least track the market in its gills. Used in Chinese medicine, the ray population is down 30% in 10 years. Keep reading Manta rays get some protection from fishermen hunting their gills  Heidi, who was orphaned in NC and hand-raised, became a celebrity in Germany. She was fat and ultimately arthritis did her in. Keep reading Heidi dies. The fat, American, cross-eyed possum charmed the world from a German zoo  Two grown men threw rocks at a little brown bat perched 25 feet up on a midtown office building, causing it to fall, break its wing and have to be euthanized Keep reading Little Brown Bat stoned to death by Midtown workers  Paul the bird man of Washington Sq Park feeds a flock of 40 pigeons. New Yorkers join in and most don’t leave without a picture with pigeon on their head. Keep reading Paul, the Pigeon Man of Washington Square Park  An injured raven transported from WY to New York City unexpectedly recovered and left the Marble Cemetery. She spent a couple years healing from a broken wing among gothic graves. Keep reading Samantha the Raven recovers, flees Marble Cemetery  One hawk widowed to rat poison has to raise her eyasses alone in Riverside Park. A kestrel got so big laying eggs, she can’t fit into the cornice nest cavity. Keep reading The hazards of being a hawk in New York City  About one-third of Americans who get leprosy can probably blame their contact with a coastal armadillo. Doctors linked their strain to the armadillo while other patients had overseas varieties. About half remembered armadillo contact, typically hunting and eating. Keep reading Armadillo contact (like hunting) linked to 1 in 3 US leprosy cases  Wild boars are thriving near Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant, but test with really high levels of radiation. What will happen to the birds and fish that migrate through? Keep reading Wildlife near Fukushima: thriving but radioactive  Daniel Kish, a blind genius, taught himself to ecolocate as a kid by making clicking sounds. Now he’s trying to teach other blind people the skill people have known about for centuries but seldom used. Keep reading Could humans ecolocate like bats and whales? |
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