In July, senators from the nation’s largest and smallest states introduced legislation to ban commercial octopus farming in the US and prohibit the import of farmed octopus from elsewhere.
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In July, senators from the nation’s largest and smallest states introduced legislation to ban commercial octopus farming in the US and prohibit the import of farmed octopus from elsewhere.
If the pair of hurricanes that just stormed through Florida and environs wasn’t biblical enough, now comes the wildlife – especially alligators. In the storms’ aftermath, humans are coming face to face with displaced gators in the debris and floodwaters.
More than 1000 animals reside in Florida’s ZooTampa at Lowry Park, which happens to be just ten miles from the waterfront. When Hurricane Milton blew through town this week, a dozen brave zoo staff hunkered down with their charges, even as other humans had hightailed it out of the mandatory evacuation zone.
A sheriff's deputy in northeast Washington, not far from the Canadian border, was on patrol in a rural wooded area when he came across a dog sitting in the road. Deputy Wright tried to coax the dog into his vehicle so he could find the owner, but the pup held her ground.
Animal-rescue organizations, big and small, are working overtime in the Southeast as hurricanes disrupt the lives of both humans and their pets. The damage wrought by Hurricane Helene, which tore through inland areas not usually susceptible to big-storm paths, is still being assessed while stranded animals await rescue.
Flash floods in northern Thailand forced more than 100 elephants to evacuate to higher ground, while at least two animals were swept away presumed lost. Dramatic videos and photos released by Elephant Nature Park near Chiang Mai showed panic-stricken elephants wading through flood waters as their human handlers struggled to lead them to safety.
A beaver in Massachusetts has been granted a stay – at a comfy animal shelter – by Governor Maura Healy, who intervened when a court was about to decide whether to exile the little mammal to the wild. The 2-year-old “Nibi” has been in the care of the Newhouse Wildlife Rescue in Chelmsford since it was just a few days old, when it was found alone by a roadside.
There are believed to be only 532 capercaillie – the world’s largest grouse – remaining in the wild in the UK, all of them in Scotland. With the iconic bird on the brink of extinction, conservationists have come up with an “emergency” plan to bolster the population.
The world’s largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, is known as a voracious hunter with razor-sharp teeth. Now we know what makes those choppers so sharp: they’re laced with iron.
New York City is about to try a new approach to tackle its persistent rat problem: using birth control on the prolific rodents instead of poison. Last week the City Council passed a bill to dole out birth-control pills to rats in a pilot program covering 10 city blocks in two neighborhoods.
A guiding principle of the Bird Photographer of the Year contest is “celebrating bird life from around the world,” but this year’s overall winner instead focuses on avian death. Patricia Homonylo’s “When Worlds Collide” depicts thousands of dead birds, victims of building collisions, arranged in concentric circles.
A herd of elephants has come to New York City’s Meatpacking District. The Great Elephant Migration is a traveling art installation and fundraiser centered on 100 life-sized elephant sculptures.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration, the Department of the Interior, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service – all because of a lizard barely two inches long.
Visitors to the zoo in Shanwei were outraged to learn that a pair of “pandas” on exhibit were in fact dogs that had been dyed to look like China’s iconic bears.
An irrepressibly cute pygmy hippo called Moo Deng has become a global sensation since her birth two months ago in a Thai zoo. The chubby-cheeked baby’s online stardom has attracted crowds to Khao Kheow Open Zoo, which has the zoo operators concerned.
And the winner is … the hoiho, also known as the yellow-eyed penguin. The plucky (and somewhat smelly) bird is the world’s rarest penguin, according to Forest & Bird, the group behind New Zealand’s Bird of the Year competition.
When the population of vultures in India collapsed in the early 2000s, their absence led to the deaths of some 500,000 people, according to new research published in the American Economic Review.
Not too long ago an orangutan in Indonesia was seen self-medicating with a healing plant it uses as a poultice. Now another primate, the African gorilla, has been spotted finding drugs in the jungle.
In places where bat populations have collapsed in the US, infant mortality has gone up. A new study by economist Eyal Frank, appearing in the journal Science, explains the connection.
