Rescued from Extinction – Not Yet Restored in the Wild
SECTION 3: Never Giving Up
Chinese or Yangtse Alligator (credit: John Thorbjarnarson).
The shy, secretive Chinese alligator is about six feet long—though at one time it may have been longer. It hunts mainly at night, feeding extensively on hard-shelled mollusks, Read More
Nature Seekers sea turtle conservation group founder Solomon Aguilllera examines a nesting female leatherback turtle (credit: Dr. Scott A. Eckert).
When I had Read More
Alfred Russell Wallace, the Victorian era explorer and co-author of the theory of natural selection, did his most famous field work in the islands stretching from Malaysia to Australia. Among the trends he noted was a tendency toward gigantism on isolated islands. Just think of the cassowary or the elephant bird to put your Read More
A wood rat being released (credit: Clayton DeGayner).
I grew up in Florida, spending nearly every waking moment outdoors, and I never even knew there was a species called the Key Largo woodrat, much less Read More
Kent Vliet studies alligator courtship and visual communication from an alligator's point of view (credit: Lisa Bibko/Kent A. Vliet).
Like me, Kent Vliet Read More
There is no better way to get most serious biologists to scoff than to say you believe there are still ivory-billed woodpeckers in the swampy forests of the Deep South. That is the very reason that I often sport my T-shirt from The Nature Conservancy that has a big drawing of the head of Read More
Kirtland’s Warbler (credit: Ron Austing).
“We are sea creatures living on land, wishing we could fly.”
—Carl Sandburg
The jack pine plains of north-central Michigan host a comeback story of surprising proportions. The diminutive Kirtland’s warbler Read More
