Animals

Energy Companies In Alaska Fight Controversial Salmon Initiative

7:27am October 09, 2018

by Elizabeth Harball

The ballot measure pits the state's love for salmon against its need for oil and mining revenue. The controversial measure has drawn more money than all three gubernatorial candidates combined.

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Minnesota Man Uses CPR To Revive A Squirrel

6:34am October 09, 2018

Police recently captured footage of a man doing CPR with a single finger. Chris Felix was trying to revive a squirrel that he thought he'd hit with his car. It worked and the squirrel dashed off.

Katmai National Park In Alaska Celebrates 'Fat Bear Week'

6:01am October 09, 2018

Bears in the park are bulking up as they get ready to hibernate. The park wants people on Facebook to look at bears caught on bear cams in the park and vote for the fattest.

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Residents In Gilbert, Minn., Call Police On Drunk Birds

5:09am October 05, 2018

Gilbert Police Chief Ty Techar says an early frost means the birds have been "getting a little more 'tipsy' than normal" on fermented berries.

A waxwing eats a berry on an arrowwood tree. Cedar and other waxwings are known to gorge on fermented berries and other fruits, leading them to appear drunk.

Science

Minnesota Residents Call Police On Rowdy Drunk Birds

8:18pm October 04, 2018

by Amy Held

Gilbert Police Chief Ty Techar says an early frost means the birds have been "getting a little more 'tipsy' than normal" on fermented berries.

Red-bellied lemurs in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Researchers who observed nine of the animals there could clearly see them sniffing fruit and deciding whether to eat it based on how it smelled.

Lemurs Provide Clues About How Fruit Scents Evolved

6:13pm October 03, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

Researchers tested what kind of information the animals are able to discern from scent about whether a fruit is ripe. There's evidence that some fruits evolved to better signal ripeness to lemurs.

Customers Flee As Horse Darts Into French Bar

6:55am October 02, 2018

Video shows the filly running up and down the length of the bar kicking up her hind legs — people trying to get out of the way. It doesn't look like anyone was hurt.

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Gomi, a year-old female Pungsan, is one of a pair of dogs given to South Korea from the North.

World News

Foreign Pawlicy: North Korea Gives 2 Hunting Pups To South

2:59pm October 01, 2018

by Ruben Kimmelman

The pups, of an indigenous North Korean breed, arrived in South Korea on Thursday as the historically cold relationship between the two countries continues to thaw.

The Peregrine Fund recently released four California condors over high cliffs in Northern Arizona. In 1982, there were only 22 of these giant birds left in the wild.

The Flight Of The Condors, And Their Audience

8:23am September 30, 2018

by Stina Sieg

Hundreds of condor groupies flocked to a spot on the Utah-Arizona border to witness the annual release of young condors into the wild.

State herpetologist J.D. Kleopfer says the discovery of a two-headed copperhead snake in Northern Virginia earlier this month is an "extraordinarily rare" sighting that few of his colleagues have seen.

WATCH: 'Extremely Rare' 2-Headed Snake Stuns Social Media, Charms Scientists

10:17am September 29, 2018

by Emma Bowman

A Virginia state herpetologist says finding the mutant copperhead in a resident's yard earlier this month is an "extraordinarily rare" occurrence. Even more stunning, he says, is that it is alive.