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Dramatic Photos Show Orcas Hunting Dolphins Off SoCal Coast - Laguna Niguel-Dana Point, CA - A pod of orcas hunting dolphins was spotted just off the coast of Dana Point near Strands Beach this week.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Some crazy images here of airborne dolphins trying to avoid killer whales off of Orange County.
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An uncollared mountain lion lives in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains Citizens for Los Angeles Wildlife (CLAW) has release
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The gray wolf (Canis lupus) is a native species that was likely extirpated from California in the 1920s. Wolves are now returning to California on their own by dispersal of individuals from source populations in other states. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has not reintroduced gray wolves to the state.
The CDFW is working to monitor this recovering endangered species protected under the California Endangered Species Acts. Wolves pose little human safety risk. The public reporting of potential wolf sightings in California are investigated, and valued as a monitoring tool.
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Firefighters found the starving and severely dehydrated 12-week-old mountain lion near Idyllwild a month ago.
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A young mountain lion that was captured last month after roaming the streets of San Francisco and then released into a wilderness preserve was found dead Friday on the shoulder of a highway in Northern California.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This pretty much says it all about the dangers of fragmented landscapes, roads, and the conflict with animals who need to move to live,
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'Bear whisperer' Steve Searles lures bears away from kitchens and campsites, with words instead of tranquilizer darts. And he thinks the lessons of the wild may translate to society.
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Simi Valley residents reported that at least three goats had been mauled. Authorities don't plan to intervene.
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These deaths mark the fifth and possibly sixth cougars in a National Park Service study to be killed by rat poison.
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The rodenticide reach continues to grow.
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The human population of Ventura County coexists with wildlife living in what makes up most of the land within our borders, the Los Padres and the Santa Monica Mountains. Most of the time, creatures…
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The sub-adult male was the newest cougar being tracked as part of NPS biologists' study of mountain lions in the region.
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More than 80 percent of federal lands in the Santa Monica Mountains burned in the Woolsey Fire. National Park Service biologists are looking at what was lost and determining what may come back.
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Scary To Some, Bats Are Key Part Of Region's Ecosystem; Population Study Underway In Channel Islands
One of the common symbols of Halloween is a bat. But, researchers who study the tiny and often feared mammals say they get a bad rap. Jason Miller is a Cal
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The big cat had been sought for evaluation by the National Park Service and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife after "exhibiting some signs of distress."
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3 Mountain Lions Spotted In Westlake Village - Agoura Hills, CA - The Lost Hills Sheriff's station reported that three mountain lions were spotted near a residential Westlake Village street Tuesday morning.
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A young mountain lion and a bobcat that were both part of wildlife studies in the Santa Monica Mountains have died after ingesting rat poison, National Park Service biologists said Thursday.
The death of the female bobcat, known as B-732, is just the second from the effects of anticoagulant rodenticides among the species in the study’s 24-year history, and the first in 23 years, according to an NPS news release. Her carcass was found on June 20, beneath an oak tree in an Agoura Hills neighborhood. A necropsy found brodifacoum, bromadiolone and diphacinone in the bobcat’s liver; the compounds included first- and second- generation poisons, according to the park service.
Maripas Jacobo's comment,
August 27, 2020 9:13 PM
I remember reading about the case study for the mountain lions for consbio!
Steve Abara's comment,
August 27, 2020 11:38 PM
I remember talking to farmers about this and they said they couldn't use poison to kill the rats anymore and had to use other ways of dealing with the rat problem
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Trains, cars and poaching have all contributed to a soaring number of fatalities, prompting fears for the grizzlies’ future.
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OR-54, a 3- to 4-year-old female, was found dead on Wednesday in Shasta County. It wasn't clear yet whether the animal died from an accident, natural causes or was killed.
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California banned the sale of alligator skins decades ago, but for years, lawmakers granted exemptions. Not anymore.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While I sympathize with concern about alligator populations, I also know that the recovery of the American alligator is a major conservation success story. That success is due in no small part to the proliferation of alligator farms which seem likely to be harmed by this ban.
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Tiger’s outing on grounds of Hesperia Zoo prompts excitement, crowd By KATHERINE ROSENBERG / Staff WriterSaturday, October 7, 2006 HESPERI
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Well, when I google "Hesparia" this is what I learned. In 2006 a tiger escaped from a private zoo within the city. This news story from the following day is...classic. There are so many ways to go with a piece of journalism like this. I'll let you all check it out first, but I am curious how many unusual components to this story you can find. Kind of like a conservation "Where's Waldo."
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Ventura County prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a Simi Valley man who they say shot and killed an adult mountain lion in the Santa Susana Mountains. The district attorney's office
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It’s an electronic message that biologists hate to see. Something was apparently wrong with one of the mountain lions being tracked in the Santa Monica
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With their habitat shrinking, brown bears in Baile Tusnad, Romania, have turned to scavenging. Residents sit and gawk, environmentalists want to protect the animals, but hunters just want to hunt.
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Officials with the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area say eight mountain lions are alive and moving based on GPS collars, apparently surviving the wildfires.
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