Wildlife

"An avian flu panzootic — a pandemic among animals — has struck some 320 bird and mammal species, including elephant seals."

"With Alaska's wildlife numbers declining, agencies are blaming — and culling — predators. The true threat is much more complex."

"Drive down any of the long, rutted back roads of Anza, a dusty Riverside County community, and it won’t take long before you feel like you’ve fallen off the grid."

"Sperm whales live in clans with distinctive cultures, much like those of humans, a study has found."

"Understanding animal and environmental microbiomes could be the key to successfully reintroducing captive animals to the wild".

"In summer, South Georgia island’s Cumberland Bay now sees whale numbers that rival the early days of whaling."

"Farms across California have had to euthanize several million chickens and ducks in recent weeks, as a wave of avian influenza threatens to upend national poultry and egg supplies."

"Rising temperatures have spurred an influx of beavers to Alaska and northern Canada ‘on a huge scale’".

"When the mule deer buck died in October, it perished in a place most humans would consider the middle of nowhere, miles from the nearest road. But its last breaths were not taken in an isolated corner of American geography. It succumbed to a long-dreaded disease in the backcountry of Yellowstone national park, north-west Wyoming – the first confirmed case of chronic wasting disease in the country’s most famous nature reserve."