Other Animals

As the sinking sun pulled shadows over Kenya’s vast Tsavo landscape, Joseph Kyalo Kimaile watched four painted dogs drinking from a drying water hole. Last year, this pack had 18 individuals, and now only four remained. He didn’t know what happened to the others, so as Tsavo Trust’s Chief Conservation Officer, he was determined to
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Raising his oar, Herdhanu Jayanto cleared a fallen branch from the narrow bend, the early morning peace periodically jolted by the calls of hornbills and macaques. With the route clear, his teammate tugged the engine’s cord and it roared back to life. Their journey began before the sun first raised an eyelid, and as the
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The cow’s ear swatted away a fly above its bright orange GPS collar, sunlight glinting across the screen of the credit card-sized device attached to it. Throughout Africa, conservationists working near pastoral communities fit carnivores like cheetahs and lions with GPS collars, as tracking their movements helps prevent livestock predation. In New Xade, Cheetah Conservation
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image courtesy Instituto Araras Azul I recently returned from Brazil, an incredible country, and the largest and most populous in South America. It is widely diverse and multicultural, and home to an enormous number of parrot species. Unfortunately, much of South America is experiencing high fire rates, especially Brazil. I personally saw fires along the
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From September 23-27, Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN) staff, Partners, and grantees gathered with governments, practitioners, and funders in New York City for the annual United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week NYC 2024 to seek out solutions that can help people and our planet. While reaching new audiences through inspiring experiences like The ClimateMusic Project,
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Image credit: Steve Murphy Exciting news in the bird world! One of the world’s most elusive and rare parrots—the night parrot, which is found only in Australia—just got a big boost in estimated population size. That’s because a colony of 50 night parrots was recently discovered in a remote area of Western Australia. How rare are
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Dr. Pepperberg’s African greys were compared to kea parrots and cockatoos to see which were most inclined to contrafreeload. An ongoing topic of study in our lab has been contrafreeloading—working for food (or, in the case of humans, some other reward) that could simultaneously be obtained for free. Contrafreeloading is pretty much unexpected and any
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Webinar: Atherosclerosis in Pet Birds Date: Friday, October 18, 2024 Time: 12:00 pm PDT (double-check your local time with this time zone converter) Join us for a FREE, live, interactive webinar hosted by Laura Doering, former editor of Bird Talk magazine and Birds USA magazine. Our special guest, Natalie Antinoff, DVM, DABVP (Avian Practice), will
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WCN’s California Wildlife Program (CWP) has pledged $1 million to the Wildlife Crossing Fund, an organization dedicated to matching public funding to establish wildlife crossings throughout California to benefit connectivity and safe migration for pumas, bobcats, deer, foxes, coyotes, and countless other wildlife. This grant will go toward supporting the construction of the Wallis Annenberg
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Hyacinth macawImage by Hans from Pixabay Raise your dominant hand if you know what August 13th is? If your left hand is up, you are correct—it’s International Left-Handers Day! In honor of southpaws, let’s take a fun, somewhat scientific, look at parrots’ and other animals’ left or right preferences, as well as some surprising ways
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With a firm grip, Simbarashe Pride Chatikobo shook one of the pen’s wooden struts, testing its stability. Fortunately, the raised platform of the kraal—a fortified enclosure for small livestock—did not budge, indicating that the training he facilitated for the farmers living near Zimbabwe’s Matusadona National Park had been successful. Raising this farmer’s kraal off the
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