Praying Mantis Egg Case Hatches

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Praying mantis egg cases can hatch early if you leave them inside. And if it’s too early you can’t just let them go because they’ll freeze. They’re born hungry for live insects. Other praying mantids will do, but you can get them fruit flies from Petco and keep them alive until it’s warm enough for release.

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Praying Mantis Clumsily Eats Bees in Brooklyn

Praying mantises aren’t rare or graceful, but a treat to see. How do bees not notice this lobster-like monster sitting on a flower? This mantis in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park lurked on a flower, then lunged on two bees and tore them to pieces.

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Did a Hunter Leave a Dead Bear in Central Park to Teach New Yorkers a Lesson?

Releasing predators in Central Park play a huge role in the fantasies and rhetoric of hunters. Could one have planted a dead black bear cub scare New Yorkers? Seems like somebody with access to dead wildlife was trying to make a point.

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Many Ubiquitous TV Jingles Make Dogs Sing, But Why?

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The Hunter: what if the Thylacine wasn't extinct and someone wanted to kill it off again

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.

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Wind Across the Everglades: hypnotically horrible

A 1958 schlocky movie had the star power to ignite the environmental movement–if it hadn’t gone so horribly wrong.

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We gave laboratory beagles a home, they gave us a baby

After years of fertility treatments, we got pregnant the day we adopted two beagles.

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Houston organizes rehabbers in Wildlife Center of Texas

The women who care for wildlife around Houston have professionalized the group, which treats mockingbirds, armadillos, pelicans, sea turtles and anything covered in oil.

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Rare Giant Armadillo caught on camera trap

Motion activated cameras are the most reliable way to see giant (up to 70 pound) armadillos, which are rare, loners hunted for meat across the Amazon.

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Longview, WA, is getting a second bridge at their First Annual Squirrel Festival August 6, when they’ll off a design contest to put up more squirrel bridges.

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