Mammals
Back Home On The Range
When a group of Native Americans took up bison ranching, they brought a prairie back to life
February 2005 |
By Leslie Allen
Whale of a Tale
When Luna, a people-loving orca, chose Vancouver Island's Nootka Sound for his home, he set in motion a drama of leviathan proportions
November 2004 |
By Michael Parfit
Fighting For Foxes
A disastrous chain of events nearly wiped out California's diminutive island fox. Scientists hope it's not too late to undo the damage
October 2004 |
By Adele Conover and Andrew Curry
New Leash on Life
In an innovative program, prison inmates are raising puppies to be guide dogs for the blind
August 2004 |
By Christina Cheakalos
Saving the Raja's Horse
British horsewoman Francesca Kelly brings India's fiery Marwari to the United States in hopes of reviving the breed
June 2004 |
By Jason Overdorf
A Mine of Its Own
Where miners used to dig, an endangered bat now flourishes, highlighting a new use for abandoned mineral sites
May 2004 |
By Douglas H. Chadwick
Monkey in the Middle
Blamed for destroying one of North Africa's most important forests, Morocco's Barbary macaques struggle to survive
March 2004 |
By John F. Ross
Fury Over a Gentle Giant
Floridians raise a ruckus over manatees as biologists weigh prospects for the endangered species' survival
February 2004 |
By Craig Pittman
Top Dogs
The Polar Inuit's ancient bond with the sled dog remains intact, thanks in part to a ban on snowmobiles. But the lure of technology threatens these "sturdy, magnificent animals"
January 2004 |
By John F. Ross
Talking to Horses
Stanford Addison uses intuition, compassion and persistence to "break" wild horses
September 2003 |
By Lisa Jones
Rethinking Primate Aggression
Researcher Frans de Waal shows that apes (and humans) get along better than we thought
August 2003 |
By Richard Conniff
Great Expectations
Elephant researchers believe they can boost captive-animal reproduction rates and reverse a potential population crash in zoos.
June 2003 |
By Kara Platoni
True or False? Extinction Is Forever
Researchers' efforts to clone the vanished Tasmanian tiger highlight the quandary of reviving long-gone creatures
June 2003 |
By Luba Vangelova
Bear Trouble
Only hundreds of miles from the North Pole, industrial chemicals threaten the Arctic's greatest predator
April 2003 |
By Marla Cone
Otterly Fascinating
Inquisitive, formidable and endangered, giant otters are luring tourists by the thousands to Brazil's unspoiled, biodiverse waterscape
November 2002 |
By Derek Grzelewski
Thar They Blow!
Gentle giants? New research suggests that male sperm whales may butt heads over females
August 2002 |
By Kevin Roderick
Incident at Big Pine Key
A pod of dolphins stranded in the Florida Keys reignites an emotional debate over how much human "help" the sea mammals can tolerate
July 2002 |
By Claudia Glenn Dowling
Not a Lot of Ocelots
Once thought to have vanished from North America victims of hunting and habitat loss the cats maintain a slender pawhold in the thickets of South Texas
June 2002 |
By Adele Conover
Give the Devil His Due
Blame Bugs Bunny and a nasty yawn for the Tasmanian devil's bad rap
February 2002 |
By Derek Grzelewski
