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Wild Cam: Solving the hatchling sea turtle mystery
Small satellite tags glued onto green sea turtle hatchlings are revealing where the reptiles go immediately after they leave the beaches of central Florida. The discovery will help researchers better...
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Wild Cam: Community scientists help detect North Carolina wildlife
It’s impossible for researchers to be in many places at once, and sometimes spots on private land are off limits altogether. That’s where community scientists come in. In North Carolina,...
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Wild Cam: The strength and limitations of community science
How good are you at spotting a giraffe? While the world’s tallest land animals might seem difficult to miss, community scientists commonly fail to see and identify the yellow-spotted ungulates...
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Wild Cam: Unearthing bilbies’ benefits
Bilbies may look like rabbits, but that’s where the similarity ends. In Australia, where the marsupials are native, the government has spent enormous amounts of money to control invasive rabbits....
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Wild Cam: Lights deter sea turtles away from deadly nets
Sea turtles have long held a special place in the traditional stories of Ghanaian fishing communities. In a story that varies depending on the community and who’s telling it, ancestors...
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Wild Cam: Costa Rica’s black panthers and elusive bush dogs
Ongoing research using trail cameras in Costa Rica’s mountains has revealed the presence of elusive bush dogs as well as why some populations of large felids, like tiger cats and...
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Wild Cam: Snow leopard spotted at lowest known elevation in southern distribution
Efforts to track carnivores in the Indian Himalayas reveal poaching hotspots, mesopredator behavior, and the first known photograph of a snow leopard in a relatively low-elevation national park. “Getting a...
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Wild Cam: Discovering Cape Town’s little known urban cats
The urban felines paw the beach sands, cross highline pipes and move through people’s backyards in Cape Town, but they are far from the typical house cat. Caracals, researchers have...
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Wild Cam: Brown bears prey on sea otters on Alaskan islets
Researchers working in Alaska’s Katmai Coast have discovered a surprising new interaction between mammals on small islands off the coast: grizzly bears are preying on sea otters. This first-of-its-kind discovery...
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Wild Cam: Asian wild dogs’ diet may aid their conservation
TWS member Jan Kamler has been hot on the trail of the packs of dholes he’s been studying for years in Southeast Asia. Sometimes trekking for months through the rainforests...