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Animals

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Wild Things

Life as We Know It

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Wild Things

Life as We Know It

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Wild Things: Life As We Know It

Tail-waving squirrels, black-footed ferrets and tool-using crows

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Turning the Tide

Our oceans are in trouble, says Nancy Knowlton. But it’s not too late to do something about it

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Masters of the Storm

Kennedy Warne, author of “The Amazing Albatrosses,” talks about dangerous waters and albatross love

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Wild Things: Life As We Know It

Icebergs, ice age wolves and honeybee queens

Two days after the killings, villagers poured in to help rangers carry bodies back to Bukima and then on to Rumangabo for burial. Here, volunteers are taking the pregnant and badly burned Mburanumwe out of the forest.

State of Emergency

The slaughter of four endangered mountain gorillas in war-ravaged Congo sparks conservationist action

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Wild Things: Life As We Know It

Mammoths, Clownfish and Traveling Plants

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Mystery trees, loggerhead turtles and Brooklyn

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Snap Shot

"If we want to ensure free-ranging devil populations that are disease free, putting them on offshore islands is the only alternative we've got," says wildlife researcher Hamish McCallum.

Tasmanian Tailspin

Can a new plan to relocate the Tasmanian devil save the species?

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Great sharks, manakins and dino digs

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Squid light shows, monkey hugs and chickadee alarms

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Horse Appeal

In this interview, Steve Twomey, author of “Barbaro’s Legacy,” discusses how interest in the horse extends outside the racetrack

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Ape tools, flying dinosaurs and emperor penguins

Cowbirds (a male, above) "are more highly evolved than we previously thought," says Jeff Hoover.

Wiseguys with Wings

“Mafia” cowbirds muscle warblers into raising their young

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Squirrelologist

"No one ever found any dead vultures," says McGrath. "There were simply less and less of them."

Fantastically Repulsive

In this interview, Susan McGrath, author of “The Vanishing,” describes getting up close and personal with vultures

In the past decade or so, over 95 percent of India's vultures have died.

Soaring Hopes

The first two Asian vultures breed in captivity

Zion's dwindling cougar population traces its roots to the late 1920s, when the park's management made efforts to increase visitation.

It All Falls Down

A plummeting cougar population alters the ecosystem at Zion National Park

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