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Report: Washington is U.S.’s fifth-most ‘cat-crazy’ state

May 26, 2023, 6:53am Pets & Wildlife

Americans are obsessed with their pets. Since the advent of the Internet, cats and dogs have provided an endless supply of video entertainment documenting their playful antics. Read story

Yellowstone baby bison put to death after visitor picks it up

May 26, 2023, 6:01am Life

Yellowstone National Park officials killed a newborn bison because its herd wouldn’t take the animal back after a man picked it up. Read story

FILE - A grizzly bear roams near Beaver Lake on July 6, 2011, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. A federal appeals court ruled Thursday, May 25, 2023, that federal wildlife and forest officials must consider limits on killing female grizzly bears to protect livestock in a vast area of the Wind River Range in western Wyoming.

Environmental groups prevail on limit to grizzly bear deaths in Wyoming cattle grazing area

FILE - A grizzly bear roams near Beaver Lake on July 6, 2011, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. A federal appeals court ruled Thursday, May 25, 2023, that federal wildlife and forest officials must consider limits on killing female grizzly bears to protect livestock in a vast area of the Wind River Range in western Wyoming.

May 25, 2023, 3:46pm Life

An appeals court is sending a plan to allow continued cattle grazing in a vast, mountainous area of western Wyoming back to federal forest and wildlife officials, telling them to consider limiting how many of the area’s female grizzly bears may be killed for preying on livestock. Read story

FILE - Trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca whale, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami, March 9, 1995. Caregivers at a South Florida ocean park are taking steps to prepare Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, for a possible return to her home waters in Washington's Puget Sound. The park's owner and a nonprofit announced a plan in March 2023 to possibly move the 57-year-old orca to a natural sea pen.

Lolita the whale may someday return to wild, Miami park says, but timeline uncertain

FILE - Trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca whale, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami, March 9, 1995. Caregivers at a South Florida ocean park are taking steps to prepare Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, for a possible return to her home waters in Washington's Puget Sound. The park's owner and a nonprofit announced a plan in March 2023 to possibly move the 57-year-old orca to a natural sea pen.

May 25, 2023, 7:31am Latest News

Caregivers at a South Florida ocean park are taking steps to prepare Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, for a possible return to her home waters in Washington’s Puget Sound. Read story

An ivory-billed woodpecker specimen is on a display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

Is ivory-billed woodpecker extinct? Experts split

An ivory-billed woodpecker specimen is on a display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

May 23, 2023, 6:02am Life

New video and photographs purporting to show ivory-billed woodpeckers flying in a Louisiana forest were published by researchers on Thursday, as government officials said they will make a final decision this year on whether the birds are extinct. Read story

FILE - This Sept. 2015, photo provided by NOAA Fisheries shows an aerial view of adult female Southern Resident killer whale (J16) swimming with her calf (J50). New research suggests that inbreeding may be a key reason that the Pacific Northwest's endangered population of killer whales has failed to recover despite decades of conservation efforts. The so-called "southern resident" population of orcas stands at 73 whales. That's just two more than in 1971, after scores of the whales were captured for display in marine theme parks around the world.

From Big Mama to Hy’Shqa, how Northwest whales get their names

FILE - This Sept. 2015, photo provided by NOAA Fisheries shows an aerial view of adult female Southern Resident killer whale (J16) swimming with her calf (J50). New research suggests that inbreeding may be a key reason that the Pacific Northwest's endangered population of killer whales has failed to recover despite decades of conservation efforts. The so-called "southern resident" population of orcas stands at 73 whales. That's just two more than in 1971, after scores of the whales were captured for display in marine theme parks around the world.

May 22, 2023, 7:41am Latest News

On a sunny and windy day in October 2022, naturalist and guide Bethany Shimasaki was leading a whale watch off the coast of San Juan Island when her greatest hope came true: She spotted her favorite humpback whale, Hydra. Read story

Wild horses spent the harsh winter at California’s Mono Lake. Now they’re turning up dead

May 22, 2023, 6:02am Nation & World

Several wild horse carcasses have been discovered this spring on the southwestern shores of Mono Lake, after California endured a cold and snowy winter. Read story

A gray wolf.

Washington looks to roll back wolf protections

A gray wolf.

May 22, 2023, 6:02am Latest News Free

For the first time in over 40 years, gray wolves in eastern Washington may soon lose some protections under state law that make it legally more difficult for people to kill them.  Read story

An alligator swims up to the beach on Dauphin Island, near Mobile, Ala., on May 7.

Gator catches surf on Ala. beach

An alligator swims up to the beach on Dauphin Island, near Mobile, Ala., on May 7.

May 19, 2023, 6:01am Life

There are plenty of alligators in Alabama. But how many enjoy a day at the beach? Read story

Ilana Minkoff checks out the menu with her dog JoJo Wigglebutt at a restaurant in San Francisco on Friday, May 5, 2023. Just in time for the summer dining season, the U.S. government has given its blessing to restaurants that want to allow pet dogs in their outdoor spaces.

More dogs are being allowed at restaurants. Is that a good thing?

Ilana Minkoff checks out the menu with her dog JoJo Wigglebutt at a restaurant in San Francisco on Friday, May 5, 2023. Just in time for the summer dining season, the U.S. government has given its blessing to restaurants that want to allow pet dogs in their outdoor spaces.

May 19, 2023, 5:55am Pets & Wildlife

Just in time for the summer dining season, the U.S. government has given its blessing to restaurants that want to allow pet dogs in their outdoor spaces. But even though nearly half of states already allow canine dining outdoors, the issue is far from settled, with many diners and restaurants… Read story