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Wildlife Wednesday: 7,000 apply to hunt “problem” grizzlies in Alberta
Plus: the key to a shrew’s heart, dino fossil mother lode discovered, and the toxic hitchhikers impacting the Arctic
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Wildlife Wednesday: loss of bats to killer fungus linked to death of human infants
Plus: not so peachy jellyfish invade B.C., polar bears aren’t as old as once thought, and elephant seals can’t say no to a dinner bell
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Wildlife Wednesday: pink mutation, life is your creation
Plus: sharks in the Salish sea, T. rexzilla, shrinking puffins and youngsters flock to birding
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Wildlife Wednesday: a “slithery” slope — and how fossils are rewriting evolutionary history
Plus: Arctic walnuts from a time long past, how cicada wings are inspiring biomimicry, wild horse digestion and pesticide-tolerant frogs.
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Wildlife Wednesday: Toronto Zoo welcomes twin snow leopard cubs!
Plus: mercury rising in the North Atlantic, borers hitting Vancouver, killer whales diving on a single breath, and falcons feeling the effect of banned chemicals
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Wildlife Wednesday: does Canada need to cull wolves to save ‘baby reindeer’?
Plus: Canada’s favourite baby orca finally free, turkeys run wild in Quebec, giant prehistoric sabre-toothed salmon renamed, and Toronto Zoo is expecting a snow leopard-shaped bundle of joy
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Wildlife Wednesday: belugas can change the shape of their melons to communicate
Plus even more whale news: grey whale die off declared over, using forensics to investigate humpbacks, a new species of orca, and a sad spate of right whale calf deaths
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Wildlife Wednesday: bald eagles are nesting in Toronto for the first time in history
Plus: sturgeon-a-surgin’ in the Great Lakes, caribou -a-boomin’ on Baffin Island, orca for days in the open ocean, and “horrific” animal poison banned in Canada
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Wildlife Wednesday: revealing the life of the Coast Salish woolly dog through oral histories and ancient genomics
Plus: experience life as a Toronto raccoon, red-throated loons learn an icy lesson, and orca use icebergs to scratch their itches
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Wildlife Wednesday: a new genomic tool is teaching us more about “grolar” bears (or “pizzlies”)
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Wildlife Wednesday: Pacific salmon travel warm water ‘corridors’ to enter the Canadian Arctic
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Wildlife Wednesday: narwhals no longer “at risk” after population quadruples
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Wildlife Wednesday: loons are suffering as water clarity diminishes
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Wildlife Wednesday: could traffic control for whales help prevent ship strikes?
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Wildlife Wednesday: how sea otters are helping save marshes, one crab dinner at a time
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Wildlife Wednesday: Gabby the oldest Great Lakes piping plover makes another successful migration
Plus: the stolen 200-kilo polar bear, the bat that leapfrogs its way home, and the weird ancient tree straight out of The Lorax
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Wildlife Wednesday: avian flu kills polar bear for the first time ever
Plus: beavers and AI team up to fight wildfire, swamp rodents invade Ontario, sharks in peril, and Great Bear hunting rights bought by conservation group
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Wildlife Wednesday: study finds California sea lions are getting bigger
Plus: juvenile salmon migration timing is changing, candy-striped spiders are catching big prey and $500,000 worth of baby eels seized in Enfield, N.S.
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Wildlife Wednesday: Toronto Animal Services overwhelmed by distemper outbreak among raccoons
Plus: hybrid birds, a new study on tiger sharks, the importance of parks and octopuses that throw
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Whales in the news! Are icebreakers ruining narwhals’ summer getaway?
Are icebreakers ruining narwhals’ summer getaway? Plus, Montreal’s whale-ward minkes, Canada’s first North Atlantic right whale visit of the year, a new K pod baby, and humpback and orca continue to clash
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“Whale superhighway” map marks World Whale Day
Plus: Marathon hare migrations, increasingly efficient wolves, wandering basking sharks and homemaking bees
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Scientists solve mystery of lunge-feeding whales
Plus: Arctic-bound beavers, New Brunswick’s rare vulture visit, Manitoba’s cougar comeback and Canada’s feistiest flora
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Canada signs cross boundary agreement to protect bats
Canada, the United States and Mexico have for the first time formally agreed to work together to protect migratory bats, paving the way for increased coordination of and…
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The mysterious 500-kilometre, 20-year odyssey of Wolf 57
Plus: a caribou’s dinner, avian “flyways,” what astronauts can learn from squirrels — and blue whale tongue-eating orcas
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Lobster larvae show effects of climate change
A University of Maine marine biology graduate student whose preliminary research has shown that the growth of lobster larvae slows in warmer and more acidic waters will travel…
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