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PacheDolly the Cloned Mammoth? Not Likely 26 Aug 2013 | 03:29 am
A piece by Robin McKie in the Guardian describes efforts to clone mammoths, and also provides some perspective on why it’s not likely to happen. Here are the key paragraphs: The idea gathers little ...
Family Planning for America’s Wild Horses 23 Aug 2013 | 12:05 am
Wild horses on the public lands (Photo: John B. Mueller/Getty) It might have made sense in the beginning: Forty years ago, responding to ardent public campaigning by horse enthusiasts, Congress order...
How to Survive in the Desert? Eat Poison. 20 Aug 2013 | 05:05 pm
Gemsbok in Namibia (Photo: Dana Allen/Wilderness Safaris) The desert has never been an easy place to make a living. There’s not usually much rain, and the vegetation is sparse and runty. Yet, when I ...
Saving Sea Turtles by Eating Their Eggs 20 Aug 2013 | 01:58 am
A local harvests sea turtle eggs in Costa Rica’s Ostional National Park. (Photo: Olivier Blaise/Getty) It is one of nature’s great spectacles. On certain nights of the year, huge numbers of olive rid...
Naked Tahitian Beauty 11 Aug 2013 | 03:34 pm
In the West, we’ve always thought of Tahiti as a hot spot, populated by bronzed beauties. And now it turns out to be true, though maybe not in the way you were thinking. Here’s the news, from Scienc...
Ancient Migration Regained as Fences Come Down 10 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
Zebras migrating in Botswana (Photo: Robert B. Haas) For decades, a network of veterinary fences disrupted traditional wildlife migration routes in Botswana, in southern Africa. The idea was to keep ...
Selling Lies About Wildlife 8 Aug 2013 | 04:10 am
In the aftermath of the Discovery Channel fraud about monster sharks, here comes a long-overdue rant against the horrible lies being sold about the natural world by some of our leading television comp...
Discovering Mammals in Insect Soup and Leech Stew 8 Aug 2013 | 03:22 am
The land leech as conservationist Wandering through the forest in Madagascar a while back, I quickly became accustomed to having land leeches turn up on various parts of my body. “Filthy little devil...
Starfish are Keystone Killers 6 Aug 2013 | 04:17 am
(Photo: James Pauls/Getty) This is the time of year for wandering the beaches and studying what washes up, and starfish often figure prominently in what we find, and in our memories of summer. It’s p...
Putting a Wild Cat Back in a Changing Habitat 6 Aug 2013 | 02:47 am
Iberian lynx The Iberian lynx made headlines last week, as a likely candidate for extinction because of climate change. But I missed the key point: Researchers are already planning to adapt by re-i...
