SAN FRANCISCO — The first confirmed sighting of a rare Sierra Nevada red fox in Yosemite National Park in nearly a century has been confirmed by park officials.
Meanwhile I see from Trevor Hardaker on facebook that a Pygmy Right Whale has been spotted several times off of Cape Town in the past couple of days. So if anyone is in South Africa – or can get there fast – then go! This is by far the hardest baleen whale to see.
Jon
Help! I have have been agonising over photos of Franciscana and Cotero Dolphins (Giuanan Dolphins) trying to turn at least one...
Here’s a great report from Ethiopia last year. Ethiopia, 2015: Janco van Gelderen, 18 days & 50+ species including Aardwolf, Aardvark, Salt’s...
The yet undescribed karasu beaked whale, previously known only from Japan, washes up in the Pribilofs: article. We’ll be...
While the Reno area of Nevada may not have much to offer a visiting mammal twitcher, it is sometimes...
I’m heading on a camping/hiking trip to some cultural sites in New Mexico and Colorado next week: Chaco, Mesa...
Here’s a paper seeking to put some science into deciding which animals are most charismatic, a discussion that has...
I had a free day and a half before leaving California, and checked out a few sites. 1. Tassajara...
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Here’s a nice story on red and grey squirrels in the British Isles. I didn’t check it for accuracy. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/30/how-to-eradicate-grey-squirrels-without-firing-a-shot-pine-martens
Wow – that’s impressive
That really is impressive. The top level predator’s effects on an ecosystem is an ongoing narrative of a very broad thesis, very interesting to read about another example.
The wolf/moose/aspen/stream temperature/fish narrative is the classic example.
I thought the speculative idea that the Gray Squirrels were suffering from “fear” is plausible. Chronic stress is recognized as a causative factor in human disease, like metabolic syndrome.
My two pesos, FWIW.