Conservation.
Conservation of biodiversity is in the hands of humans but artificial intelligence can help guide decisions.
Pangolins are the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal.
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Pangolins are among the most trafficked and poached mammals in the world.
Spiders often act passively in response to humans.
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An expert on why spiders are misunderstood and their fascinating survival strategies.
Tracy Dodd
The Marsupial Microbiome Poop Troop collects the droppings of wild marsupials to help save the lives of orphaned joeys.
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Why Arne Næss’s ideas of ‘deep ecology’ can help us live with wolves.
Feral hogs’ long snouts and tusks allow them to rip and root their way across the landscape in search of food.
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Feral hogs are one of the most destructive invasive species in North America, harming land, crops and wildlife.
The New York City borough of Manhattan at night, viewed from the Rockefeller Center observation deck.
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Migrating birds need stopover locations en route where they can rest and feed. A new study shows that artificial light draws them away from sites they would normally use and into risky zones.
Great tits are familiar visitors to gardens.
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Research shows providing food for birds not only stops them going hungry, it may help them fight off infection too.
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My team studied bluefin tuna otoliths to learn why some populations are recovering faster than others.
A red-tailed hawk with a broken wing at the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth, Mass.
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Hundreds of wildlife rehabilitation centers across the US and Canada treat sick and injured animals and birds. Digitizing their records is yielding valuable data on human-wildlife encounters.
There are very few wildcats like this one left in their natural habitat in Scotland.
Mark Bridger
And a recent history of wildcat hybridisation.
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When wild animals survive the initial trauma, blood loss and infection risk without medical help, it’s astonishing that they can adapt to life with three limbs.
Black legged kittiwakes often mate for life.
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Like humans, seabirds seem less likely to part ways when they have relationships built on similar personalities.
Horseshoe crabs in spawning season at Reeds Beach, N.J., on June 13, 2023.
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Horseshoe crabs play a unique role in medicine, but they’re also ecologically important in their home waters along the Atlantic coast. Can regulators balance the needs of humans and nature?
Hemachatus nyangensis in Nyanga National Park, Zimbabwe.
Donald Broadley
The Nyanga rinkhals can tell us about our own evolution.
Smuggled rare Mexican box turtles intercepted by U.S. officials at the Port of Memphis.
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More than half of the world’s turtle species are endangered or threatened, and overhunting of wild species is a major cause.
Miriam, a rescued chimpanzee brought to the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in 2018.
Jake Brooker
Why wild chimpanzees end up as pets and how we can keep them in the wild.
An average giraffe has a home range almost as large as Philadelphia.
Michael Brown
The largest ever giraffe tracking study shows how these massive animals are responding to human pressures across many different habitats throughout Africa.
Yellow underwing moths were one of the species in the study.
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But pesticides and climate change are threatening moths’ future.
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From the moment a male lion is born it faces a gauntlet of challenges, ranging from snakebite to infanticide.