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If you're a land owner and animals such as coyotes or wild pigs are driving you hog wild, help may soon be on the way to control their numbers in a humane way "“ in the form of a birth control pill for animals being developed at Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. The concept would be to get it to wild animals through baited food, researchers say.Researchers are testing oral contraceptives "“ used in much the same way as in humans "“ and...
Going back three decades or so, foxes had a pretty sweet deal in the East. Two species, red fox and gray fox, were the only wild canine predators present. They could claim that exclusive status since red wolves were persecuted out of business by people somewhere back in the 1800s. During the 1970s, however, Western-native coyotes little by little immigrated east, spreading their range into the vacuum left by the red wolf. Since then, coyotes have occupied virtually all of the eastern United...
SPRING MILLS, Pa. - A Westmoreland County man is having a memorable 2007 bear season. Tom Wisniowski bagged a rare albino black bear Monday on the season's opening day. The female cub weighed 47 pounds. Wisniowski told The Sentinel in Lewistown that conditions were difficult and at first he thought he was looking at a coyote. But when the bear got a bit closer, he could tell it was an unusual bear. Wisniowski was hunting with Jeff Gowen of Evansburg and Richard Marther and Andrew Duncan, both...
By Bill Cummings, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport Karen Young was relaxing on the deck of her Oxford home on Mother's Day when she saw something big moving in her backyard. Something big, as in a really BIG cat. "I couldn't talk. It was 40 feet away. My husband said 'Holy ., what the heck is that,' " Young said. "It looked at me and then it turned away and walked into the woods. I didn't have a camera and I was trying to get the dog into the house. We called the [state Department...
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - Researchers say fragments from lead bullets continue to poison scavengers like ravens and eagles in the Jackson Hole area.Scientists say levels of lead in ravens' blood increases fivefold during hunting season, or mid-September through mid-December. The lead likely comes from bullet fragments left behind in the carcasses of elk, moose and deer, said researchers Derek Craighead and Bryan Bedrosian with the Kelly-based group Craighead Beringia South.Such contamination could...
Study finds coyote densities more than 30 percent lower in wolf territoryNEW YORKÂ -- While the wily coyote reigns as top dog in much of the country, it leads a nervous existence wherever it coexists with its larger relative, the wolf, according to a new study from the Wildlife Conservation Society. In fact, coyote densities are more than 30 percent lower in areas that they share with wolves. The paper, which appears in the most recent edition of the Journal of Animal Ecology, details the...
The Massachusetts Association of Problem Animal Control (MAPAC) is a non profit trade association representing private wildlife management firms and PAC agents in the commonwealth of Massachusetts for the past fifteen years. MAPAC applauds the new program from the Massachusetts division of fisheries & wildlife and vows to cooperate with them and all local authorities to protect the public from coyotes that prove to be a danger to people. MAPAC board members recently met with...
Here's the first edition of a new feature called "Ask the Experts." The idea is for readers to send questions on a variety of topics, from outdoor sports like fishing and hunting to bikes, physical fitness, nature and more. I'll find experts who can answer them. I received a number of e-mails after "Ask the Experts" was announced a few weeks ago. We'll get to them as weeks go by. But one regarding nuisance coyotes stood out for reasons you'll soon understand. The expert I...
The Kennedy Space Center might embody the pinnacle of 21st century high technology, but it still must use 19th-century methods to deal with a chronic problem: nuisance wildlife. Specifically, wild hogs, alligators _ and lately, coyotes. But not to worry. John Tanner is there. A native of the east-central Florida `burb of Christmas, Tanner has been a hunter and trapper since age 6. Armed with an ancient .22 rifle, animal traps and plenty of Florida woods savvy, Tanner, 65, has been in charge...
By John McCoy Though its presence often gets lost amid the hullabaloo about hunting, West Virginia's trapping season remains an important part of wildlife officials' attempts to manage furbearer populations. "Trapping is absolutely important to this state," said Paul Johansen, assistant wildlife chief for the Division of Natural Resources. "Not only are trappers an important constituent group for our agency, they perform a crucial function in keeping certain species of animals from becoming...
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The Mexican prairie dog (Cynomys mexicanus) is a rodent that is native to Mexico. It is related to squirrels and chipmunks. These prairie dogs prefer to burrow in soil without rocks on plains, and can live at altitudes between 5,250 and 7,200 feet. Its northern range includes San Luis Potosi and its southern range includes areas of Coahuila. The Mexican prairie dog can reach an average body length of up to seventeen inches, and an average weight of 2.2 pounds. The overall fur color is...
The American Badger, Taxidea taxus, is a North American badger, somewhat similar in appearance to the European Badger. It is found in the western and central United States, northern Mexico and central Canada. This animal prefers dry open areas with deep soils that are easy to dig, such as prairie regions. In Mexico, this animal is sometimes called "tlacoyote". Anatomy The stocky body is flattened covered with shaggy grizzled fur, and the legs are short and powerful. The legs have...
The gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) is a species of canine ranging from southern Canada, throughout most of the lower United States. It is also found in Central America, to Venezuela. This species and the closely related Island Fox are the only living members of the genus Urocyon, which is considered to be among the most primitive of the living canids. Description The gray fox has a pepper brown back, tawny sides, neck and legs, and a white belly. It has a black stripe along its...
The swift fox (Vulpes velox) is a small fox found in the western grasslands of North America, for example in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. They also live in Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada. Some mammalogists classify it as co specific with the Kit Fox, but many scientists have distinguished the latter from the swift fox. The reasons basically related to size. The kit fox is slightly larger than the swift fox, and the latter has a narrower snout. Swift foxes weigh about 4.41 to 6.61lb...
The red wolf, Canis rufus is the most rare and most endangered of all wolves. It is thought that its original distribution included much of eastern North America. Red wolves were found from Pennsylvania in the east, Florida in the south, and Texas in the west. On the basis of further study, its historic range is now thought to have extended further north into the northeastern USA and extreme eastern Canada. In the last century habitat destruction and hybridization with coyotes have brought...
