All animal mothers seem to share one common trait: a fierce desire to protect their young. In fact, sometimes that desire becomes a little too overbearing, and moms begin to cross the line into what’s known as “helicopter parenting.” Most animal young seem to have a universal attribute as well: an urge to prove themselves [...]
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Dolphin Stampede
In September 2008 while their boat was in the Sea of Cortez between Isla Ángel de la Guarda and Bahia de los Angeles, Mexico, some fishermen encountered a pod of dolphins. The animals are known for their “bow riding” and playfulness at spotting boats; but when you run into a large pod of them, their [...]
Bald Eagle Does the Breaststroke
Eagle watchers — and just about all of us in North America — are familiar with the well-documented athletic abilities of our national emblem, the bald eagle. You’ve seen countless films of them, noiselessly swooping down upon unsuspecting fish, swiping them up with strong, sharp talons, and then soaring away for the land to indulge [...]
Moving Bison with a Song
On March 8, 2012, seventy-one bison calves newly arrived from Canada stepped onto the Montana plains. They came to join the established herd of bison on the American Prairie Reserve, the one that once belonged to their ancestors. One hundred years ago, the last of Montana’s Pablo-Allard herd was sold to the Canadian government. At [...]
It All Started with a Seal
A desk phone, $600, and one very wacky photograph. It’s just about all Ben Bressler had about twenty-five years ago, when the idea to create Natural Habitat Adventures was still just flickering in the back of his mind. Who could predict that this little start-up would one day evolve into a world leader in nature [...]
Last of Her Kind: Footage of an Imperial Woodpecker
Campephilus imperialis (the imperial woodpecker) may have been the largest woodpecker that ever lived. The last documented sighting of this two-foot-tall bird happened in 1956 in the state of Durango, in the high-altitude, old-growth pine forest of the Sierra Madre in Mexico. Pennsylvania dentist and amateur ornithologist William Rhein captured the only known footage of [...]
