 Enormous snapping turtles lurk in Brooklyn lakes but emerge this time of year to lay eggs. Oddly, NY state is about to allow trapping, hooking and clubbing them to death. Keep reading Monster quest: finding the giant snapping turtle of Prospect Park–before NY legalizes trapping them  Ol Pejeta Conservancy asks the public for $35k to buy a drone to protect what may be the world’s last four northern white rhinos from poachers. Keep reading Rarest rhino species may be saved by crowdfunded drones  Lonely Planet names 10 snake watching sites, with Manitoba on top. Great list, but misses some possibilities like the Everglades, South of the Border or Pentecostal churches. Keep reading What are the best places in the world to see snakes?  A Barnacle goose that somehow migrated from Greenland onto the wrong continent is beloved by Brooklyn birders, but shunned by Canada geese. Keep reading Goose from Greenland has many Brooklyn fans, but Canada geese not among them  Cape Cod revels in its shark attack. You’ll see all kinds of shark souvenirs and you can try to see one on a boat tour to see seals (what the sharks are after). Keep reading Cape Cod loves its seals–and now sharks, too  Crows thrive on Cape Cod, especially in the winter, when thousands live on the Cape, then roost on Martha’s Vineyard. Bostonians can see roosts in Roxbury and Shopper’s World. Keep reading Crows love Cape Cod  The Cape Cod bear has been amusing Cape Cod since Memorial Day, but MA sent him back to the mainland for causing a spectacle. Poor guy. His mom probably just kicked him out so she could find a new mate. Either that, or he was looking for a girlfriend. Keep reading Black bear who sought romantic vacation on Cape Cod sent home  Tell the FWS that Chicago and Milwaukee would like Hackmatack, a new wildlife refuge they could drive to. You might see whooping cranes, river otter, cougars, blandings turtles and all kinds of birds there. They take comments until April 27 and are set to decide this fall. Keep reading Tell the USFWS you want a Chicagoland wildlife refuge  The movie imagines the elusive animal really does survive, only a big drug company wants to kill it off for a magic potion it secretes.This is by no means the movie wildlife watchers would make about the fantastic hope that a living thylacine represents. Keep reading The Hunter: Crushing the fantasy if the Thylacine wasn’t extinct and someone wanted to kill it off again  13 endangered whooping cranes now call Wheeler NWR their winter home–maybe permanently–thanks to the quirks of weather, FAA rules and bird stubbornnes. Keep reading Whooping cranes may make AL home after fluky weather and FAA rules dispute |
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