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This male black bear heads into the woods on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 off a logging road in Grays Harbor County. The cub was one of two released back into the wild after spending the past 15 months at the PAWS Wildlife Center in Lynnwood, where their caretakers took extra care not to expose them to humans.

Orphaned bear cubs in Washington get freedom, ‘a second shot at life’

This male black bear heads into the woods on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 off a logging road in Grays Harbor County. The cub was one of two released back into the wild after spending the past 15 months at the PAWS Wildlife Center in Lynnwood, where their caretakers took extra care not to expose them to humans.

May 24, 2021, 6:05am Life

SOUTH OF OLYMPIC NATIONAL FOREST — Reacting to the auditory assault of clanging metal, barking dogs, shouts and rifle blasts, a 168-pound American black bear shot out of the open end of a culvert trap and hightailed it into the woods off a logging road in Grays Harbor County. Read story

Peter Cavanagh is an award-winning wildlife photographer and a retired University of Washington professor who lectures on the mathematics of bird flight. Behind Cavanagh is great blue heron, on April 15, 2021, at West Point Light House Beach in Seattle's Discovery Park.

Washington photographer’s passion: 600,000 photos of flying birds

Peter Cavanagh is an award-winning wildlife photographer and a retired University of Washington professor who lectures on the mathematics of bird flight. Behind Cavanagh is great blue heron, on April 15, 2021, at West Point Light House Beach in Seattle's Discovery Park.

May 24, 2021, 6:00am Life

If it weren’t for passionate people, this would be a dull world indeed. Read story

Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue worked with TLC Towing to rescue a cow trapped in mud down an embankment on Thursday afternoon.

Bogged-down bovine freed from deep mud near Ridgefieldvideo icon

Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue worked with TLC Towing to rescue a cow trapped in mud down an embankment on Thursday afternoon.

May 21, 2021, 2:42pm Clark County News Free

There were four specific obstacles that a family, a fire crew and a towing company had to overcome when rescuing a cow stuck in deep mud in Ridgefield Thursday, according Clark-Cowlitz Fire and Rescue. Read story

Lindsay Beattie works on her computer as her new dog, Moose, hangs by her side at home in Fort Lauderdale.

Owners fret over leaving pets home alone

Lindsay Beattie works on her computer as her new dog, Moose, hangs by her side at home in Fort Lauderdale.

May 21, 2021, 6:08am Life

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – If you’ve been home with your pet during the pandemic, you know what’s coming. Read story

Twelve American red wolf pups were born in late April at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, N.C.

Endangered wolves doing well at North Carolina Zoo

Twelve American red wolf pups were born in late April at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, N.C.

May 20, 2021, 6:05am Life

Three litters of American red wolves, which are critically endangered and number less than two dozen in the wild, have been born at the North Carolina Zoo, officials announced Monday. Read story

Mei Ling, a baby takin, who was born last month, climbs on her mother Bona at the San Diego Zoo on May 18 in San Diego. The takin calf was the first of its species to be born in the Western Hemisphere. (K.C.

San Diego Zoo welcomes golden takin calf

Mei Ling, a baby takin, who was born last month, climbs on her mother Bona at the San Diego Zoo on May 18 in San Diego. The takin calf was the first of its species to be born in the Western Hemisphere. (K.C.

May 20, 2021, 6:05am Life

One of the San Diego Zoo’s newest and youngest animals is already finding her footing — even on rocky ground. Read story

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2016 file photo, a Pacific fisher takes off running after being released into a forest at Mount Rainier National Park, Wash. The Pacific fisher, a weasel-like carnivore native to Oregon's southern old growth forests, has been denied endangered species protection in the state, the latest twist in a legal back-and-forth that has continued for 20 years. In the decision issued last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declined to grant the fisher threatened status in southern Oregon and northern California, citing voluntary conservation measures as effective in protecting the woodland creatures. Today, biologists estimate anywhere from a few hundred to a couple thousand fishers live in Oregon, most near the California border.

1st wild fishers born in North Cascades in decades

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2016 file photo, a Pacific fisher takes off running after being released into a forest at Mount Rainier National Park, Wash. The Pacific fisher, a weasel-like carnivore native to Oregon's southern old growth forests, has been denied endangered species protection in the state, the latest twist in a legal back-and-forth that has continued for 20 years. In the decision issued last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declined to grant the fisher threatened status in southern Oregon and northern California, citing voluntary conservation measures as effective in protecting the woodland creatures. Today, biologists estimate anywhere from a few hundred to a couple thousand fishers live in Oregon, most near the California border.

May 18, 2021, 7:40am Life

The first wild members of the wolverine family known as fishers have been born in the North Cascades for the first time in decades. Read story

This frame grab from video provided by the Houston Police Department shows a tiger that was found after a nearly weeklong search in Houston.

Missing Texas tiger transported to Texas animal sanctuary

This frame grab from video provided by the Houston Police Department shows a tiger that was found after a nearly weeklong search in Houston.

May 17, 2021, 5:51pm Nation & World

A tiger that frightened residents after it was last seen briefly wandering around a Houston neighborhood was transported to a wildlife sanctuary on Sunday after police found the animal a day earlier following a nearly weeklong search. Read story

Katie Guehl, a fourth-grade teacher at Indian Run Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio, checks on Daphne Phyllis, a red-eared slider turtle, in her classroom.

Teachers struggle to care for class pets in pandemic

Katie Guehl, a fourth-grade teacher at Indian Run Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio, checks on Daphne Phyllis, a red-eared slider turtle, in her classroom.

May 14, 2021, 6:05am Pets & Wildlife

As teachers pivoted to online learning last school year, some faced a unique challenge: What would happen to their class pets? Read story

Gray wolves to find new home at Ted Turner’s New Mexico ranch

May 14, 2021, 6:05am Pets & Wildlife

One of Ted Turner’s ranches in southern New Mexico will be the new home for a pair of Mexican gray wolves and their pups as federal wildlife managers look at more options for boosting the genetic diversity of the endangered species. Read story