When a Pennsylvania hunter encountered a large black bear about 15 yards away, little did he know he probably just harvested the commonwealth’s heaviest bear of the year.Scott Price of Madison Township, Lackawanna County, hunted with a group of family members and friends in Monroe County when he shot a bear that weighed 774 pounds.The […]
Wildlife charity backs policy of exploitation of small number of some endangered species for economic purposes – such as trophy huntingThe wildlife charity WWF has been maintaining policies that work to support the trade in polar bear fur at the same time as using images of the bears to raise money, it can be revealed.Polar […]
See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred California’s black bears are clever, resourceful and opportunistic. They eat anything and everything — fruits, nuts, insects, human food and pet food. They love bird feeders. They poach mountain lion kills — such as deer — that they find. It’s called kleptoparasitism. […]
U.S. Fish and Wildlife shares info on taxidermy mounts KELOLAND.comsource
news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeThe fate of the mounted lion, tiger, polar bear and gorilla that have long greeted visitors entering South Dakota’s largest zoo is grim after arsenic was found to be widespread in the taxidermy collection, creating a raging debate about whether the more than 150 animals should be […]
How wolves became dogs The Economistsource
High in the mountains, Kazakh herders have lived in careful balance with wolves for centuries. Now a celebrated tradition has become a matter of survival.The horse’s body was still warm when the three men came upon it in the snow. From only the wounds and a constellation of tracks around the horse, the trio of Kazakh […]
The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal.In 2011, mammoth ivory hunters in northeastern Siberia discovered a mummified wolf puppy that had lain frozen for 14,400 years. An autopsy of the permafrost-preserved pup revealed another surprise: its gut contained chunks of […]
10 most beautiful wild dogs on the planet, from the supermodel-legged wolf to tiny, blonde desert fox BBC Wildlife Magazinesource
Creating lifelike digital scenes of big game trophies from photos of their racks has taken off for Missouri-based Digital Taxidermy, and some Wyoming hunters say it’s a great idea.September 11, 20235 min readHunting might have finally caught up with the digital revolution through “digital taxidermy,” and some Wyoming outdoorsmen said they can see it catching […]