By Aniruddha Ghosal and Sibi Arasu
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI » Seven decades after cheetahs died out in India, they’re back.
Eight big cats from Namibia made the long trek Saturday in a chartered cargo flight to the northern Indian city of Gwalior, part of an ambitious and hotly cont...
SCIENCE & NATURE
Scientists are using machine learning to eavesdrop on various animals
By Emily Anthes
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The naked mole rat may not be much to look at, but it has much to say. The wrinkled, whiskered rodents, which live, as many ants do, in large, underground colonies,...
By Mike Ives
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The dugong, a species of socalled sea cow that roams the ocean floor in Asia and Africa and is said to have inspired ancient legends of mermaids, has been spotted off China’s southern coast for centuries.
But not lately. A new study suggests the dugong has be...
By Scott Sonner
The Associated Press
RENO, NEV. » Conservationists who are suing to block a geothermal power plant where an endangered toad lives in western Nevada are now seeking U.S. protection for a rare butterfly at another geothermal project the developer plans near the Oregon line.
The Cent...
By Nick Coltrain
The Denver Post
With the conservation-aimed CORE Act stalled in Congress — having passed the House of Representatives four times but deadlocked in an evenly divided Senate — leading Colorado Democrats are now pushing President Joe Biden to pursue executive action.
On Tuesday, Sen...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
CODY, WYO. » The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of the West’s most spectacular predators — the golden eagle — as the species teeters on the edge of decline.
Ground zero in the conflict is Wyoming, a str...
By John Flesher, Christina Larson and Patrick Whittle The Associated Press
GLEN ARBOR, MICH. » Concealed behind trees near Lake Michigan, two scientists remotely manipulated a robotic owl on the forest floor. As the intruder flapped its wings and hooted, a merlin guarding its nest in a nearby pine ...
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Colorado’s U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and 23 other Republican members of Congress wrote federal officials this month, asking that they remove the gray wolves from the federal endangered species list.
A northern California judge’s February ruling placed the ...
By Henry Fountain
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Adélie penguins have had a rough time of it on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, where warming linked to climate change has occurred faster than almost anywhere else on the planet. That and other factors have led to sharp declines in Ad...
By The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE » It will be illegal to use wildlife traps, snares and poison on public lands across New Mexico under a ban that took effect Friday.
New Mexico is joining a handful of Western states that have limited trapping on public lands, with supporters say...
WASHINGTON » Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood.
They compared the genome of common vampire bats to 26 other bat species and identified 13 genes that are missing or no longer work in vampire bats. Over the years, those ...
By Dylan Anderson
Steamboat Pilot & Today
A federal court ruling in February relisting gray wolves as an endangered species across much of the United States could complicate Colorado’s wolf reintroduction effort.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service indicated its latest intentio...
By Mitch Smith
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BLACKFOOT, S.D. »
On the ice-glazed banks of the Missouri River, coyotes chewed through the hide of a buffalo that recently died from disease. In a corral up the hill, more than 20 orphaned buffalo calves crowded together in the cold with no mother ...
By The Associated Press
FORT COLLINS » The Montana Stockgrowers Association has asked its state wildlife agency to reject any requests to capture wolves in Montana to be transplanted in Colorado, after voters here passed a wolf reintroduction plan.
The Montana cattle ranchers say Colorado ...
WOODSTOCK, GA. » An annual rattlesnake roundup in south Georgia recently changed the format of this month’s event to celebrate living snakes without skinning and butchering them, earning plaudits from animal rights activists.
But no such changes are occurring at a huge rattlesnake roundup beginning...
By Todd Wilkinson
Writers on the Range
Yellowstone National Park turns 150 years old this month — a milestone truly worth celebrating.
When Westerners think of Yellowstone, probably what comes to mind are its grizzlies, exploding geysers, wolf packs and bison traffic jams, not to mention bubbling...
By Amy Bounds
Daily Camera
St. Vrain Valley high school students on Thursday shared their work on an endangered Colorado native fish project with Boulder County Parks & Open Space employees.
The students — four sophomores and one senior — are on the data science team that’s part of th...
Wildlife biologist traces markings to man-made snares
By Rachel Nuwer
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Paula White, a wildlife biologist, was examining lion skulls to estimate the animals’ ages when she noticed something strange about their teeth. Instead of just showing the normal, gradual wear ...
By Emily Anthes
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The mountain gorillas that live in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park have frequent encounters with humans. On any given day, the animals might come across smartphone-toting tourists, fecal-sampleswiping biologists or antibiotic-administering veterina...
By Christina Larson
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » America’s national bird is more beleaguered than previously believed, with nearly half of bald eagles tested across the U.S. showing signs of chronic lead exposure, according to a study published Thursday.
Although the bald eagle popul...
