Yogi Bear Reincarnate?

If you live or hike in bear country, you know all about keeping your food out of sniffing range. Or at least you should.
Open food left in a campsite is just an invitation for large, furry visitors with teeth & claws. There are a number of solutions available, and in the past it has been [...]

Sea Turtle Bag Ban

What do you get when you cross a sea turtle with a plastic bag? A dead turtle.
According to the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation, discarded plastic bags cause over 100,000 sea turtle and other marine animal deaths every year when animals mistake them for food.
The world’s consumption rate is now estimated at well over 500,000,000,000 (that’s 500 [...]

A Black-footed Future

A small, cat-sized carnivore with masked eyes has returned from the brink of extinction.
The black-footed ferret was once found throughout the Midwestern plains of North America. Catastrophic habitat loss and the near eradication of prairie dogs by farmers were blamed for their demise, as they eat almost nothing except prairie dogs. Fifty years ago, scientists [...]

How Smart Is a Crow?

I knew members of the Crow or Corvidae family were smart, but this video blew me away! He tries it, thinks about it, then fixes the problem. Too spooky!

more about “How Smart Is a Crow?“, posted with vodpod

Animals We Need To Survive

Further to yesterday’s post about honey bees, have a look at this website from the National Wildlife Federation, listing 5 Animals Mankind Needs to Survive.

Mystery Photo

How’s your eyesight? Want to take a guess at what this is?
We’ll leave this photo unidentified for awhile, just to see how sharp our readers are. Drop us a comment with your best guess!

We’ve Moved

This is still the place for news, updates and opinions on the world’s wild species. It’s a scary world out there for people, never mind animals, who need all the help they can get to survive. Think of us as their press agent!
For older blog posts, please see http://wildcarnivore.blogspot.com/