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Story Archives of 'Wildlife'
The Hidden Life of Deer
By Laura Knoy on Monday, September 14, 2009.Author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas spent the better part of a year observing deer outside her Peterborough home. She learned these creatures are a lot more than “potential venison”, but complicated animals with communities, social hierarchies and intricate patterns of eating, communicating, and finding places to rest. We look at deer, from the whitetails in our own backyards to their close relatives, moose, elk and caribou.
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- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Deer: Lessons from the Natural World
No Lions, No Tigers, But Lots of Bears
By Chris Jensen on Tuesday, August 25, 2009.Black bears in the North Country are not unusual. But this summer Bethlehem has got more bears than it wants and people are to blame. NHPR correspondent Chris Jensen has the story.
Lemmings Don't Jump
By Rebecca Sheir on Wednesday, August 12, 2009.
The first thing you should know about lemmings is that they don't commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs, no matter how many Far Side cartoons you’ve read or what Walt Disney documentaries told you.
Wildlife cinematographer Mario Benassi has filmed species from jaguars in Mexico to gorillas in Rwanda to vipers in Costa Rica.
Cancer in the Wild
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, July 7, 2009.
Cancer is a leading cause of death for humans and also kills millions of dogs, cats and other pets. Now researchers are tracking cancers in wild animals. Dolphins, green sea turtles, and beluga whales are just a few of the animals that have been shown to develop cancers in the wild, and researchers believe polluted waters may be to blame.
Denise McAloose is Chief Pathologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society's Global Health Program and the author of a paper published in the current issue of Nature Reviews Cancer. She joined us to uncover why wild animals are developing tumors and what can be done to slow the spread.
Nature Reviews Cancer: Wildlife Cancer, A Conservation Perspective
Scientific American: Cancer joins threats to wildlife
(Photo by Michael Hanscom via Flickr/Creative Commons)
Are gorillas threatened in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
By EarthTalk on Sunday, June 14, 2009.
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From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
Voles, Not Moles
By Rosemary Conroy on Thursday, May 21, 2009.As Rosemary explains, moles are often maligned for actions committed by another subterranian critter.
What are the environmental effects of fur farming?
By EarthTalk on Sunday, May 17, 2009.
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From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: How is the fur industry doing these days? Has it been impacted by activism from PETA and similar groups? -- Clara Andrews, Edmonds, WA
A Little Less Flood Control Might Help Save Unique Forests
By Amy Quinton on Thursday, April 30, 2009.Dams that control flood waters across the state may be harming a unique type of forest.
Floodplain forests --once abundant along river corridors-- now account for less than two percent of New Hampshire. The Nature Conservancy and the US Army Corps of Engineers are studying these forests to learn how to protect them while still safeguarding cities and towns from floods.
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports on the forests’ distinctive ecology.
CSI Animal Investigators
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, April 28, 2009.
Diamonds, guns, slaves and drugs may be the billion dollar black markets that we hear about, but animal trafficking is the third most lucrative criminal activity in the world. Illegal animal brokers and merchants are notoriously difficult to track down, but one Oregon crime lab has devoted itself entirely to the cause.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory is the first and only forensics lab in the world dedicated just to animals. It’s dealt with more than 10,000 cases from all over the world in the past twenty years. Journalist Laurel Neme followed some of the poachers, processes and prosecutions in her new book Animal Investigators.
Catching California’s poachers can be tough since so few game wardens patrol such a vast stretches of wilderness. So officials are trying something new. In a scene straight out of a television CSI crime show, game wardens and scientists are using DNA analysis and other high-tech measures to protect California’s wildlife. KQED’s David Gorn reports. Click here to listen at the Public Radio Exchange.
(Photo by Steve Stevens via Flickr/Creative Commons)
Muskrat Love
By Rosemary Conroy on Thursday, April 23, 2009.They may be known for "love" thanks to a 70's pop song, but muskrats are more fighters than lovers.
