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Pandemic has been profitable for General Mills’ pet foods

April 2, 2021, 6:08am Life

Pet owners have spent more time with their furry friends this past year, which General Mills says is helping fuel sales of its Blue Buffalo pet food as customers swap out their old brands for more natural products. Read story

Mary Hugger takes a photo of her daughter, Grace, 12, as she held a cria, a baby llama, while visiting Carlson&#039;s Llovable Llamas Waconia, Minn.

Minnesotans hug llamas as pandemic pick-me-up

Mary Hugger takes a photo of her daughter, Grace, 12, as she held a cria, a baby llama, while visiting Carlson&#039;s Llovable Llamas Waconia, Minn.

April 2, 2021, 6:05am Life

Hugging a llama didn’t just brighten Isabella Odin’s day. It made her week, especially as another pandemic spring begins. Read story

A loggerhead sea turtle hatchling reaches the surf July 7, 2019, after emerging from a nest on Ossabaw Island, Ga. The federal government is close to undoing a policy that for 30 years has protected rare sea turtles from being mangled and killed by machines used to suck sediments from shipping channels in four Southern states.

Policy change may imperil sea turtles

A loggerhead sea turtle hatchling reaches the surf July 7, 2019, after emerging from a nest on Ossabaw Island, Ga. The federal government is close to undoing a policy that for 30 years has protected rare sea turtles from being mangled and killed by machines used to suck sediments from shipping channels in four Southern states.

April 2, 2021, 6:02am Life

The federal government is close to undoing a policy that for 30 years has protected rare sea turtles from being mangled and killed by machines used to suck sediments from shipping channels in four Southern states. Read story

A Mexican long-tongued bat is held by Mexico&#039;s National Autonomous University, UNAM, Ecology Institute Biologist Rodrigo Medellin after it was briefly captured for a study at the university&#039;s botanical gardens, amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Mexico City, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Listed as threatened in 1994, the bat normally lives in dry forests and deserts, in a range that extends from the southwestern United States to Central America.

In quieter Mexico City, rare bats make an appearance

A Mexican long-tongued bat is held by Mexico&#039;s National Autonomous University, UNAM, Ecology Institute Biologist Rodrigo Medellin after it was briefly captured for a study at the university&#039;s botanical gardens, amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Mexico City, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Listed as threatened in 1994, the bat normally lives in dry forests and deserts, in a range that extends from the southwestern United States to Central America.

March 31, 2021, 2:45pm Life

At a Mexico City university campus, researchers are stringing mesh nets between trees, hoping to capture evidence that a rare bat has begun visiting its favorite plants in this metropolis of 9 million. Read story

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden&#039;s dogs Champ, right, and Major are seen on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 31, 2021.

Ruh roh! Biden pooch drops doggie doo in White House hallway

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden&#039;s dogs Champ, right, and Major are seen on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 31, 2021.

March 31, 2021, 2:34pm Life

Doggie doo in the White House? Read story

In this 2019 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo. Grizzly bears are slowly expanding in the northern Rocky Mountains but scientists say they need continued protections and have concluded no other areas of the country would be suitable for the fearsome animals. The Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday, March 31, 2021, released its first assessment in almost a decade on the status of grizzly bears in the contiguous U.S.

Scientists: Grizzlies expand turf but still need protection

In this 2019 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo. Grizzly bears are slowly expanding in the northern Rocky Mountains but scientists say they need continued protections and have concluded no other areas of the country would be suitable for the fearsome animals. The Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday, March 31, 2021, released its first assessment in almost a decade on the status of grizzly bears in the contiguous U.S.

March 31, 2021, 11:28am Life

Grizzly bears are slowly expanding the turf where they roam in parts of the northern Rocky Mountains but need continued protections, according to government scientists who concluded that no other areas of the country would be suitable for reintroducing the fearsome predators. Read story

In need of a dopio macchiato? Pigeons take to the awning above the Starbucks across from the Pike Place Market in Seattle on February 3, 2021.

We humans have dumped on the poor pigeon for too long. It’s high time to admire this fascinating bird

In need of a dopio macchiato? Pigeons take to the awning above the Starbucks across from the Pike Place Market in Seattle on February 3, 2021.

March 28, 2021, 1:30pm Latest News

Here’s a pigeon theory: Beneath all that cooing and head-bobbing and snack-hoovering lie piles of seething rage. Read story

A rehabilitating squirrel traverses the wire fencing in an enclosure on a Squirrel Refuge volunteer&#039;s property in the Proebstel area north of Camas.

Clark County Squirrel Refuge carries on

A rehabilitating squirrel traverses the wire fencing in an enclosure on a Squirrel Refuge volunteer&#039;s property in the Proebstel area north of Camas.

March 28, 2021, 6:02am Clark County Life

When squirrels have babies in autumn and now in spring, sometimes those babies fall out of the nest. Their mothers often retrieve them, but not always. They might be eaten by a hungry coyote, hawk or cat. Or they might be found by humans. Read story

Thousands of Atlantic green sea turtles and Kemp&#039;s ridley sea turtles suffering from cold stun are laid out to recover Feb. 16 at the South Padre Island Convention Center on South Padre Island, Texas.

About 4,300 cold-stunned turtles survived Texas freeze

Thousands of Atlantic green sea turtles and Kemp&#039;s ridley sea turtles suffering from cold stun are laid out to recover Feb. 16 at the South Padre Island Convention Center on South Padre Island, Texas.

March 26, 2021, 1:37pm Life

About a third of the cold-stunned sea turtles found along Texas’ coast during last month’s deadly winter freeze survived following a massive rescue effort by experts and volunteers who were themselves struggling without power at home. Read story

FILE - In this June 21, 2017, file photo, a California condor takes flight in the Ventana Wilderness east of Big Sur, Calif. The endangered California condor could return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in 100 years. The San Francisco Chronicle says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to allow the release of captive-bred giant vultures into Redwood National Park as early as fall 2021.

After 100 years, California condor could return to northwest

FILE - In this June 21, 2017, file photo, a California condor takes flight in the Ventana Wilderness east of Big Sur, Calif. The endangered California condor could return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in 100 years. The San Francisco Chronicle says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to allow the release of captive-bred giant vultures into Redwood National Park as early as fall 2021.

March 25, 2021, 7:48am Northwest

The endangered California condor could return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in 100 years. Read story