Tag: Animals
New wolf killing laws prompt push to revive protections
BILLINGS, Mont. — Wildlife advocates pressed the Biden administration on Wednesday to revive federal protections for gray wolves across the Northern Rockies after Republican...
Texas zoo: Woman who entered monkey enclosure to be charged
EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Zoo plans to press charges against a woman who was caught on video trying to feed spider...
US wildlife managers propose protections for rare chicken
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday proposed federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, saying its habitat across five states is in...
Review: A battle of 2 Emmas — with killer fashion as weapon
The Met Gala should be so lucky.
In a spectacular (though...
Louisiana gator swaps swamp life for Texas beach getaway
PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE, Texas — A young alligator traced to the Louisiana bayous traded swamp scum for a sandy Padre Island beach in...
Woman in racist Central Park confrontation sues over firing
NEW YORK — The white woman who was widely condemned and fired after a videotaped dispute with a Black birdwatcher in Central Park filed...
Three common garden pests — and a 17-year visitor who isn’t
OK, so you’ve got your vegetable and flower transplants in the ground, their roots are reaching out into surrounding soil, and stems are starting...
Carolina Tiger Rescue takes in big cats from Tiger King Park
PITTSBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina big cat sanctuary will temporarily care for four animals seized from the private zoo in Oklahoma featured in...
Wolves scare deer and reduce auto collisions 24%, study says
WASHINGTON — Ecologist Rolf Peterson remembers driving remote stretches of road in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and seeing areas strewn with deer carcasses. But that...
Last cat out of the Tiger King Park bag as seizure completed
THACKERVILLE, Okla. — Federal officials have removed the last of the 68 big cats from the private zoo in Oklahoma that had been the...