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Pets & Wildlife

Norway says Beluga whale with apparent Russian-made harness swims south to Sweden

May 30, 2023, 8:11am Life

Norwegian authorities said Tuesday that a beluga whale, which was first spotted in Arctic Norway four years ago with an apparent Russian-made harness and alleged to have come from a… Read story

That’s some pig: Hazel Dell family finds their Vietnamese potbellied pig Puggles is the perfect pet

May 30, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

The Blatty family has owned dogs, birds, fish, a rabbit and even a rat. The pig, though — that’s the pet that catches their Hazel Dell neighbors’ attention. Read story

White goat lies in a meadow against the backdrop of the city in the summer on a sunny day. The background is blurry.

Versatile goats’ voracious appetites good for more than weed management, fire prevention

White goat lies in a meadow against the backdrop of the city in the summer on a sunny day. The background is blurry.

May 28, 2023, 6:00am Latest News

Goats have a reputation for eating everything. That can be a good thing. Read story

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colo., welcomed a pair of Amur leopard cubs last week.

Endangered Amur leopard cubs born at Colorado zoo

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colo., welcomed a pair of Amur leopard cubs last week.

May 26, 2023, 6:54am Life

Colorado Springs’s Cheyenne Mountain Zoo welcomed a pair of Amur leopard cubs May 17, adding to the population of one of the most endangered species in the world. Read story

Dotty the desert tortoise explores her enclosure in Scottsdale, Ariz., on May 3, 2023. The surprising warmth of these ancient cold-blooded creatures has made them popular pets for families with pet dander allergies and for retirees.

Tortoises are social, zippy pets

Dotty the desert tortoise explores her enclosure in Scottsdale, Ariz., on May 3, 2023. The surprising warmth of these ancient cold-blooded creatures has made them popular pets for families with pet dander allergies and for retirees.

May 26, 2023, 6:54am Life

They’re not fluffy, they don’t play fetch, and they certainly don’t roll over. But there is such a thing as a lap tortoise. Read story

Report: Washington is U.S.’s fifth-most ‘cat-crazy’ state

May 26, 2023, 6:53am Pets & Wildlife

Americans are obsessed with their pets. Since the advent of the Internet, cats and dogs have provided an endless supply of video entertainment documenting their playful antics. Read story

Yellowstone baby bison put to death after visitor picks it up

May 26, 2023, 6:01am Life

Yellowstone National Park officials killed a newborn bison because its herd wouldn’t take the animal back after a man picked it up. Read story

FILE - A grizzly bear roams near Beaver Lake on July 6, 2011, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. A federal appeals court ruled Thursday, May 25, 2023, that federal wildlife and forest officials must consider limits on killing female grizzly bears to protect livestock in a vast area of the Wind River Range in western Wyoming.

Environmental groups prevail on limit to grizzly bear deaths in Wyoming cattle grazing area

FILE - A grizzly bear roams near Beaver Lake on July 6, 2011, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. A federal appeals court ruled Thursday, May 25, 2023, that federal wildlife and forest officials must consider limits on killing female grizzly bears to protect livestock in a vast area of the Wind River Range in western Wyoming.

May 25, 2023, 3:46pm Life

An appeals court is sending a plan to allow continued cattle grazing in a vast, mountainous area of western Wyoming back to federal forest and wildlife officials, telling them to consider limiting how many of the area’s female grizzly bears may be killed for preying on livestock. Read story

FILE - Trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca whale, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami, March 9, 1995. Caregivers at a South Florida ocean park are taking steps to prepare Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, for a possible return to her home waters in Washington's Puget Sound. The park's owner and a nonprofit announced a plan in March 2023 to possibly move the 57-year-old orca to a natural sea pen.

Lolita the whale may someday return to wild, Miami park says, but timeline uncertain

FILE - Trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca whale, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami, March 9, 1995. Caregivers at a South Florida ocean park are taking steps to prepare Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, for a possible return to her home waters in Washington's Puget Sound. The park's owner and a nonprofit announced a plan in March 2023 to possibly move the 57-year-old orca to a natural sea pen.

May 25, 2023, 7:31am Latest News

Caregivers at a South Florida ocean park are taking steps to prepare Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, for a possible return to her home waters in Washington’s Puget Sound. Read story

An ivory-billed woodpecker specimen is on a display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

Is ivory-billed woodpecker extinct? Experts split

An ivory-billed woodpecker specimen is on a display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

May 23, 2023, 6:02am Life

New video and photographs purporting to show ivory-billed woodpeckers flying in a Louisiana forest were published by researchers on Thursday, as government officials said they will make a final decision this year on whether the birds are extinct. Read story