Group Teaches Animal Tracking to Urbanites
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Jason Davis knelt in a snow-filled ditch beside a frozen gravel road, the bill of his baseball cap nearly touching four small marks in the snow. As he examined the marks, more than a dozen other animal trackers gathered around. The trackers are volunteers with Cascadia Wild, which has organized the Wolverine Tracking Project for the past five years to bring urbanites closer to nature and gather information about animal species in Mount Hood National Forest.
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Responding to concerns in the food industry, companies developing cloned livestock have come up with a system to track the animals as they move through farms and slaughterhouses.
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The survival of some bird species in Iowa is threatened, and urban sprawl is part of the problem. That&#39;s according to a state group that keep tabs on the conversation of wild birds.
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The potential US mad cow case renews interest in more public data and tracking of animals. By Mike Lee -- Bee Staff Writer. Get weekday updates of Sacramento Bee headlines and breaking news.
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In California, traditional ranchers still use dogs to move flocks of sheep. But hobbyists are getting into the activity as well.
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Crime scene investigation is going to the dogs. Animal control officers in one southern Australian city are being trained and equipped to gather DNA clues at the scene of every dog attack on a human or pet, officials said Sunday.
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TORONTO Dan Frankian peered over a city fence and saw his target. There, plump and oblivious, were the intruders. The freeloaders had simply moved in from the country, gorged themselves on the abundance of the city and left a nasty trail wherever they went. They were Canada geese.
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Birder Mathew Tekulsky reveals the effectiveness of a concealed location for viewing birds, as he describes the behavior of quail and jays in his yard.
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Global positioning systems (GPS),  digital photography and computer databases are joining the  humble paint can as U.S. cities battle to obliterate graffiti  and catch its shadowy perpetrators.
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With its great plains of concrete and endless shopping malls, Long Island would seem an unlikely location for wildlife research. Yet this winter a team of waterfowl biologists will follow
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Cities in the US are using a global positioning software system in their efforts to control graffiti.
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MIAMI -- The volunteers tote a butterfly net, binoculars and field guides around the Miami Metrozoo grounds, scanning the plants and flowers for fluttering wings.
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A Dutch town installs street mikes that use acoustic-recognition tech to listen for signs of aggression in the
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NEW YORK - A hawk down in midtown Manhattan? Another bird of prey grounded across town? A sheep loose in the Bronx? It wasn't shear fantasy. The odd series of animal adventures began 10 a.m.
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Zookeepers across the country are Friday carrying out the challenging task of counting all their animals in a stock-taking exercise that will list every aardvark to zebra in their collection.
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Wildlife agencies are re-examining some longstanding approaches to cultivating waterfowl populations.
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Big animal rights groups do not share the same mission, but they have coalesced around a message that eating meat is worse for the environment than driving.