Snow leopards (Panthera uncia), the ever-elusive ghosts of the mountains, are undoubtedly one of the most charismatic species on Earth. Unfortunately, they are in decline: threatened by habitat loss and degradation, climate change, decreasing availabilities of natural prey, poaching, and human-wildlife conflict. I have written about the latter threat many times. When creatures like snow […] …
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I have watched many wildlife films in my day, especially since deciding to study wildlife TV for my master’s thesis, but one that I just watched stands out from all the rest: Wildlife and the Wall by Ben Masters. via “Wildlife and the Wall:” Excellent Short film about the Impacts of Trump’s Wall — The Jaguar
Agnes the garden gargoyle is looking rather miffed with the snow building up around her. I think she's giving me the stink eye each time I look at her in her winter garb, undoubtedly trying to tell me that she's more a fan of daylilies and peonies than snow. Poor girl's going to be perturbed …
Of all the wild birds that grace our backyard feeders and chatter among the trees, none are as endearing as the Black-capped Chickadee. Friendly and gregarious, Chickadees make the winter's chill a little less biting. My favourite songbird by far, I long to hear them extolling their trademark chickadee dee dee tune each and every …
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https://videopress.com/embed/hgOi4tCs?hd=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=0&loop=0 WILDER SIDE OF OAKLAND COUNTY Black-capped Chickadees are well adapted to life in the woodlands of Oakland County, and are equally comfortable living a suburban lifestyle. The secret of their success is adaptability and inquisitiveness, and during the cold months, a few tricks bestowed upon them through eons of evolution. Chickadees may be found …
Around 50 million years ago, long before the Epoch of the Twilight Beasts, a little mammal, Eohippus, scurried about in the forests of North America. This creature, about the size of an average dog, was the ancestor of the magnificent horse we know today. During this Period, called the Eocene, the environment and climate was […] …
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Horses are one of Europe’s last big mammals. They shouldn’t really be here: they should have vanished a long time ago with most of the other large mammals from the Pleistocene. Europe once had herds of gigantic, hairy mammoths; solitary, shaggy woolly rhinoceros; deer with antlers wider than I am tall; and so many more. […] …
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