Jeanne the barn owl loves people. She calls out for them. I was worried my daughter was being too friendly. But the falconer assured me Jeanne would only give an affectionate nibble.
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 James Cameron found nothing more than shrimp on his dive to the Mariana Trench. Richard Branson hopes to see more when he visits the deepest spot in the Atlantic this year. Keep reading Explorers hope for less boring critters on upcoming seafloor trench dives  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  Thousands of virtually extinct scimitar-horned oryx survive on TX hunting ranches. But only 110 TX oryx are in the species survival plan that spans 211 institutions worldwide. The species doesn’t need Texas hunters. Keep reading What 60 Minutes’ Love Letter to TX Canned Hunts Got Wrong  A mob of urban kangaroos heads into Canberra at night to eat. The same arguments over hunting, contraceptives and car accidents play out. Keep reading The urban kangaroo–white-tailed deer of Australia  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?  Nova Scotia is going back to barbaric bounties, offering trappers $20 per coyote pelt. They hope to kill 4,000 that way. Finland wolves and ND coyotes also under attack from poachers and snowmobiles. Keep reading Nova Scotia still paying $20 coyote bounty; Wild bald eagle courts one at zoo  News today is full of the bad consequences of idiotic exotic pets, from the face-eating chimp to 10 soft-shelled warm weather turtles dumped in NJ. A drug dealer’s serval find a home at a CT museum. Monitor lizard stalks LA. Keep reading Idiotic exotic pets in the news: attacking chimp, drugdealer serval, wandering monitor lizard & turtles  BLM kills the idea of the NV Pickens sanctuary late on Friday without much explanation. Long Island may no longer be the last place in US without coyotes; one spotted in Queens. Wales hopes fin whale sightings mean whale watching. Georgia hunter gets away with online remote shotguns to kill feral hogs. Keep reading BLM dumps Pickens’ horse sanctuary; Coyote breaches Long Island; Wales gets Whales |
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