For more than 150-years, agencies and the public waged a relentless war on predators of every size and species across North America. As the article below indicates, this mentality is slowly changing. (Those elk hunters […]
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All posts tagged: predators
Nature’s Fear Factor
“For animals in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, the normal balance of competition and predation was upended when a war wiped out the top predators. The remaining animals didn’t simply grow in numbers—they began behaving in […]
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Painting Eyes On The Butts Of Cattle Surprisingly Effective At Scaring Off Would-Be Predators
Here is another example of low-tech, non-lethal ways to protect cattle from predators. NOTE: this article was originally published to IFLScience’s Apple News Channel on August 7, 2020. It was written by Katy […]
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Mother Grizzly and Cubs
Idaho Fish and Game posted this video with these comments: Every year Idaho Fish and Game Biologists place GPS collars on grizzly bears to learn about their reproduction, survival, and distribution. A recently retrieved […]
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Ranching Alongside Predators in an Idaho Forest
“Using domestic animals to restore overgrown forest near Yellowstone Park in Idaho.”
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Bison Bunch Up to Protect Calves
Over millions of years, rangelands have evolved under grazing by nomadic herds that travel in mass, bunched up to protect both young and adults from predators. And, plants have evolved to need this. This observation […]
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The Predator Paradox: Ending the War with Wolves, Bears, Cougars, and Coyotes
“An expert in wildlife management tells the stories of those who are finding new ways for humans and mammalian predators to coexist.
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On the Elk Trail: Episode 5 – Grizzly Bear Trail
Quoting the producers of the video below, “When we placed game cameras on an elk migration corridor near Yellowstone, we found many grizzly bears on the elk trail. Sometimes we were actually hiking in the […]
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Fourth Montana Hunter Attacked by a Grizzly Bear in 10 Days
The safest places shared by bears and humans are those where bear hunting in some form is permitted because bear hunting makes bears fearful of humans. Counterintuitively, the most dangerous places for bears is […]
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Bears at Pitchstone Waters
“We see black bears every day or two, and grizzly bears at least weekly.
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