Ungulates
Barbaro's Legacy
The effort to save the fallen champion shows how far equine medicine has come in recent years. And how far it still has to go
April 2007 |
By Steve Twomey
End of the Road?
Development threatens to block the ancient migration of a herd of pronghorn antelopes in western Wyoming. Without new protections, conservationists say, the speedy animals are running out of time.
January 2007 |
By Daniel Glick
Beard's Eye View
When elephants began dying, Peter Beard suspected that poachers were not entirely to blame
December 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
Mirror Image
The first evidence that elephants can recognize themselves
December 2006 |
By Eric Jaffe
Mirror Image
The first evidence that elephants can recognize themselves
November 07, 2006 |
By Eric Jaffe
The Sound of Hoofs
In a breathtaking spectacle, wildebeest by the millions are on the move this month in the Serengeti
June 2006 |
By Virginia Morell
Oh Deer!
Contraception shows promise, but other measures may be needed to lessen the toll that the deer boom is having on forests and suburbs
October 2005 |
By Anne Broache
Saving Mali's Migratory Elephants
A new photo library of West Africa's desert elephants is helping researchers track the dwindling herd and protect their imperiled migration routes.
July 2005 |
By Laura Helmuth
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
Race for a Remedy
Retired from the track, thoroughbred First Flight served as a "factory" to produce botulism antitoxin
December 2000 |
By Carolyn H. Crowley
Last of the Wild Buffalo
Long displayed, long dispersed, the famous Hornaday bison "family" is reunited in a new home
February 2000 |
By Hanna Rose Shell
An orphanage for some big babies
Daphne Sheldrick has turned her Nairobi home into a nursery and rehabilitation center for infant elephants who have lost their families
March 1997 |
By Jim Leachman
The Object at Hand
A young war-horse helped Phil Sheridan win the day in the Shenandoah Valley and, made famous by a poem, helped Abraham Lincoln win re-election
November 1996 |
By John Fleischman
