Carnivores:
Unfortunately, there was no "Monday Mammal" yesterday and there will be none this week - I am unfortunately too busy to put together a decent post what with catching up after SICB. However, as an update to last week's post...
Posted on January 9, 2007 02:49 PM • 0 Comments
What is this mystery beast captured on film in Kayan Mentarang National Park, East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2003? Initial claims were that it was a new species of carnivore. But is there evidence for this claim?...
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Posted on January 1, 2007 07:55 AM • 1 Comments
The Washington Post is reporting that the Bush Administration wants to list polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, "We've reviewed all the available data that leads us to believe the sea ice the polar bear depends...
Posted on December 27, 2006 01:25 AM • 2 Comments
The endangered jaguar (Panthera onca) is making a partial comeback in the Southwest. As this article notes, sightings have become more frequent over the past decade as males are crossing over from Mexico. Needless to say, conservationists are worried about...
Posted on October 9, 2006 09:26 PM • 0 Comments
In May I reported on marmots allegedly killing cats in Washington. Now it seems the raccoons are in on the action and "a gang of raccoons that shows no fear has killed at least 10 cats and attacked several...
Posted on August 28, 2006 09:51 PM • 8 Comments
The Maine beastie is apparently getting significant media coverage on the eastern seaboard. Loren Coleman (a cryptozoologist) has some more photos and thinks that it is a dog gone feral, possibly a chow or akita. All very plausible, imho....
Posted on August 17, 2006 05:20 PM • 6 Comments
Boingboing has picked up on this story of a "hybrid mutant of something" found dead in Maine. Apparenty locals have, over the past few years, been "seeing and hearing a mysterious animal with chilling monstrous cries and eyes that...
Posted on August 16, 2006 03:48 PM • 22 Comments
This story in the Times of London (breathlessly titled "How man's best friend overcame laws of natural evolution"*) has been linked to by Dembski over at his blog and by a number of other creationists around the web. I guess...
Posted on July 17, 2006 10:20 PM • 47 Comments
Apparently older meerkats (S. suricatta) teach pups how to obtain food by incrementally introducing dead, injured and then live prey. As the University of Cambridge press release notes, although learning per se wouldn't be surprising, whether wild mammals teach...
Posted on July 13, 2006 03:33 PM • 1 Comments
Mothers are important ... especially if you are a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta). From the NSF: Scientists have discovered that a dominant hyena puts her cubs on the road to success before they are born by passing on high...
Posted on April 26, 2006 11:33 PM • 1 Comments
I used to work on Eurasian badgers, Meles meles, a fascinating mustelid carnivore that is relatively easy to observe in the wild. My work was in cranial morphometrics - measuring skulls and detecting differences - and I was more...
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Posted on March 8, 2006 03:09 PM • 1 Comments
