Animals

A female mountain goat in an alpine meadow in Montana's Glacier National Park. When goats competed with sheep for salt in the park, the goats won almost unanimously.

Health & Safety

Goats slam sheep over salt lick: Maybe they really are the GOAT

6:08pm October 17, 2022

by Marc Silver

Two scientists were surprised to see goats and sheep hanging out above the tree line. Turns out they were fighting over patchy salt deposits. They saw 106 "interactions." Guess who almost always won?

Taylor Blake is helping Emmanuel with physical therapy in a homemade sling.

National

Emmanuel, a TikTok-famous emu, has avian flu after a deadly outbreak on a Florida farm

5:52pm October 17, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

Taylor Blake's family farm in South Florida, Knuckle Bump Farms, has lost 99% of its birds to avian flu. Its most famous resident has suffered nerve damage in his right leg and foot.

Eclipse looked out the window to know where to get off the bus.

National

Eclipse the dog, known for riding the bus alone to the dog park, has died

4:20pm October 16, 2022

by Halisia Hubbard

Eclipse, the Seattle dog known for riding a bus herself since 2015, died on Friday. Her habit began when her owner was finishing his cigarette and she hopped the bus to the dog park without him.

A photo released by the New Zealand Department of Conservation on April 5, 2018, shows beached pilot whales in Haast, a city on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island.

Recent whale strandings highlight the mystery that still baffles marine scientists

7:00am October 15, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

A recent stranding on remote New Zealand islands left nearly 500 pilot whales dead. Scientists still don't know for sure why the events, also known as beachings, occur, but they have some ideas.

Cattle graze near a fire in Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 22. A new report analyzed years of data on wildlife populations across the world and found a downward trend in the Earth's biodiversity.

Animal populations shrunk an average of 69% over the last half-century, a report says

6:47am October 14, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

A new report from the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London analyzed years of data on wildlife populations across the world and found a downward trend in the Earth's biodiversity.

Drought puts a stop to artificial floods that have helped restore habitat

4:59pm October 13, 2022

by Melissa Sevigny

For a decade, artificial floods in the Grand Canyon have helped restore habitat for endangered fish, but the drought has put a stop to those. Ecologists and recreationists are worried.

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Books
Arts

The human sensory experience is limited. Journey into the world that animals know

1:28pm October 13, 2022

by Terry Gross

In An Immense World, science writer Ed Yong explores the diversity of perception in the animal world — including echolocation, magnetic fields and ultraviolet vision. Originally broadcast June 2022.

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National

The number of birds has declined in America's habitats, except wetlands

5:22pm October 12, 2022

The number of birds in America's grasslands and shorelines has declined by a third in the last 50 years, according to a new report. But birds are staging a comeback in wetlands.

A string of dead pilot whales line the beach at Tupuangi Beach in New Zealand's Chatham Archipelago, on Saturday.

World News

477 stranded whales die on remote New Zealand islands

12:06pm October 12, 2022

by The Associated Press

The whales beached themselves on the Chatham Islands, about 500 miles east of New Zealand's main islands. None of the whales could be refloated and all either died naturally or were euthanized.

Fat Bear Week has a winner: 747 aka Bear Force One

6:07am October 12, 2022

The popularity contest started to raise awareness about the brown bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park. As the bears gain weight for winter hibernation, internet fans vote for their favorite.

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