The extinction of the wolf in Britain was widely celebrated as an achievement towards the creation of a more civilised world.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
I have spent five years tracking down more than 10,000 accounts of wildlife by naturalists, travellers, historians and even poets, all written between 1529 and 1772
Sightings of thin killer whales have led researchers to blame the decline of these whales to the shortage of Chinook salmon.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Keith Holmes, Hakai Institute
The declining salmon and whale numbers raise a critical question: Is the southern resident killer whale population solely reliant on the abundance of salmon? And, if so, since when?
We don’t know for sure which one is smarter, because not everyone agrees on what “intelligence” means. Both have their own special behaviours and skills and we can’t say who is more intelligent.
Two southern resident killer whales surface near Saturna Island, B.C, in September 2012.
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As the Discovery Channel and National Geographic Wild unleash a week of dueling shark programs, a biologist advises viewers to take what they see with a large grain of sea salt.
The history of displaying exotic animals seems to be one of evolving public expectations about what constitutes acceptable conditions. Is it a case of the more things change, the more they stay the same?