While they may be a bit smaller than your average house cat, what these ‘dwarf’ Island foxes lack in stature, they make up for in resilience. Not long ago, the future looked bleak for the distinctly diminutive fox species that reside on California’s Channel Islands. In the mid-1990s, the island fox’s numbers had plummeted from the thousands to, in some …
Wolf-friendly license plates — Conservation Northwest
Wolf-friendly license plates We’ll be helping fund non-lethal tools with new plates on our cars. You can, too! Get your own plate License plates mean big funding for wolves From “SMRTGY” to “COOLMOM”, those fun personalized license plates that declare your You-ness will also help our state adapt to its new life with wolves. How do license plates help wolves? …
Dogs – From Fearsome Predator to Man’s Best Friend – NYTimes.com
To trace the change in dog brains, scientists have first had to work out how dog breeds are related to one another, and how they’re all related to wolves. Ya-Ping Zhang, a geneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has led an international network of scientists who have compared pieces of DNA from different canines. They’ve come to the conclusion …
Saving the Wolf – NYTimes.com
Saving the Wolf via Saving the Wolf – NYTimes.com.