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Friday Poll: Whose Deer?

Whose Deer? A young Wisconsin hunter shoots a deer, but the animal survives and flees onto adjacent private property, where the adult property owner then shoots the deer, killing it. My question is not about Wisconsin hunting regulations, but what one thinks should have happened, apart from any regulations. In this case they settled with…

Turkey on a Treadmill

Not every turkey winds up sharing part of a plate with some cranberry sauce. A few turkeys, including the one below, play a role in scientific research. Here’s the description accompanying the YouTube video from The Roberts Lab at Brown University: This turkey is one of Dr. Thomas Roberts’ research subjects at Brown University. Dr.…

Sounds: Inside a Bat Cave

What would it sound like to be in a cave with bats, in a bat hibernaculum? With the recording below, designed for listening with headphones to simulate being surrounded by bats’ sounds, you’ll know. (Headphones make a discernible difference – it’s really quite something.) There are other tracks in the series, too: lemurs, humpback whales,…

Hikers Stand Their Ground Against Bull Elephant

The reason for the Bull advancing on us became later evident when we were told by the clients that one member of the group had tried to run down the river bank and another had moved position, we were not aware of this during the encounter as we where approx 4 – 5 meters in…

Infant Hedgehog Hand-Feeding

In the video below, a four-day old hedgehog has a snack.  The recording is from a British organization, Wildlife Aid: We are the Wildlife Aid Foundation and have been saving wildlife in the UK for over 30 years and been the heart of the television series “Wildlife SOS” for over 15 years on Animal Planet.…