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Excerpt from The Bee Mother
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The butterfly redemption
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Wildlife Wednesday: belugas can change the shape of their melons to communicate
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Wildlife Wednesday: bald eagles are nesting in Toronto for the first time in history
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Bug Adventure: The six superpowers of bugs
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Wildlife Wednesday: could traffic control for whales help prevent ship strikes?
Plus: bowhead whales spending more time in Arctic waters, Toronto Zoo’s newborn white rhino calf gets a name, bird brains are put to the test, and the pesky leafhopper that could help shed light on climate change
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The silent migration beneath our feet
Understanding the spread of non-native earthworms in northern Canada
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The otter, the urchin and the Haida
As the sea otter begins its long-overdue return to Haida Gwaii, careful plans are being laid to welcome them — and to preserve a prosperous shellfish harvest
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Wildlife Wednesday: how sea otters are helping save marshes, one crab dinner at a time
Plus: blue and fin whales are mating ‘with porpoise,’ B.C. Court ruling finds an environment minister’s statement is ‘for the birds,’ hungry crustaceans chow down on live jellyfish, and why pigs wearing clothes is not the cute story you think it is
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Documenting the herring run
Conservation photographer Kali Wexler marvels at the annual event in the coastal waters around Vancouver Island — and explains why it is so critical to the ecosystem
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Wildlife Wednesday: B.C. big tree hunter finds “Canada’s most impressive tree”
Plus: wild pigs crossing into N.W.T, AI listening to bee buzz, bowhead whales breaking pregnancy records, and horseshoe crabs paying price for medicinal blood
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Wildlife Wednesday: how bees are helping to solve elephant-human conflict in Africa
Plus: cross-border salmon tension, a clue in the eastern wolf debate, the role of weather in bison migration and evidence a near-mythical wolf once roamed Canada
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Wildlife Wednesday: Washington cougar boldly swims where no cougar has swam before
Plus: Honey bees love a puzzle and the efforts to save bison in Saskatoon, caribou in Jasper and spotted owls in B.C.
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Wildlife Wednesday: the fish fatefully divided, not by land, but by current
Plus: Death metal singing bats, the lion of the microbial world, the dino heavyweights going club-to-club, and the accidentally introduced bee threatening native species.
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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: 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk reveals 1,000-km Yukon-Alaska migration
Plus: The silver-haired bat that sings, the whale that lives in human-like clans, the industry that could breathe life into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the new regulations that aim to protect Canada’s most valuable fish
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Wildlife Wednesday: the vagrant sea eagle boosting North America’s economy
Plus: Canadian scientist witnesses sperm whale birth, wildlife get that shrinking feeling, migratory birds fly ever higher, and teeth tell time (sort of)
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Wildlife Wednesday: can frozen “yogurt” save the little brown bat?
Plus: new K-pod whale is confirmed as female, black lynx identified for first time, goats winning the battle against sheep and the secrets of turtle hibernation are revealed
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No bats, no chocolate — plus five more reasons you should love bats
From contributing to the production of chocolate to regulating mosquito populations, bats are important animals that play a significant role in the world’s ecosystems
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Wildlife Wednesday: revealing the life of the Coast Salish woolly dog through oral histories and ancient genomics
02Wildlife Wednesday: How a pandemic heli-ski shutdown expanded the range of B.C. caribou
03Wildlife Wednesday: what pikas — and their poop — can teach us about climate change
04Wildlife Wednesday: “milestone achievement” — Bhutan records a nearly 40 per cent increase in snow leopard numbers
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Wildlife Wednesday: can the mighty muskox survive its greatest test yet?
02Wildlife Wednesday: invasive “vampire fish” exploding across Great Lakes
03Wildlife Wednesday: mammoth meatballs and Tyrannosaurus lips!
04Wildlife Wednesday: The “wonderful net” protecting whales and dolphins from deep-sea brain damage
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Opoyastin: Wolves of the big wind
At a fly-in wilderness lodge on Hudson Bay, guests immerse themselves in a rarely studied wolf pack
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Wolves exhibition opens at the Canadian Museum of Nature
Wolves! Shape-shifters in a Changing World unpacks the complex social lives of wolves through culture and science alongside stunning images by photographer Michelle Valberg
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Wildlife Wednesday: The ancient pre-primates that once roamed Canada’s Arctic
Plus: Alaskan wolves are getting a taste for sea otter, right whale-friendly lobster traps are hitting the market, AI is helping the fight against invasive phragmites, and First Nations discuss caribou protection
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Wildlife Wednesday: The land-to-sea evolution of the whale eye
Plus: the ins-and-outs of a Vancouver zoo wolf break-out, caribou conservation controversy in Quebec, more marmots on Vancouver Island and the tick-busting pine needle discovered in Nova Scotia
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Wildlife photographer spends five years following a wild wolf pack in Canada’s Kootenay National Park
In this beautifully illustrated photography book, Canadian wildlife photographer John E. Marriott documents a grey wolf pack throughout the seasons, showcasing the daily lives of the Kootenay wolves
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Do not disturb: Practicing ethical wildlife photography
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Guardians of the glacial past
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The naturalist and the wonderful, lovable, very bold jay
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Award-winning photos capture doomed salamanders in Algonquin Park
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The call of the loon
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10 things you didn’t know about moths
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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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The ice walkers: Canada’s polar bears
An excerpt from Gloria Dickie’s book, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future, which explores the planet’s eight remaining species of bears and the dangers they face
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Wildlife Wednesday: Arctic fox “green thumb” effect on tundra can be seen from space
Plus: record-breaking polar bears in Churchill, problem-solving racoons in Vancouver, and the urban song sparrows-turned super dads.
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Wildlife Wednesday: the monumental task of taking a polar bear to the vet
Plus: a mother orca’s burden, hope for sharks and rays, the link between salmon and wildflowers, and financially tracking the illegal wildlife trade
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Wildlife Wednesday: study finds California sea lions are getting bigger
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Wildlife Wednesday: Toronto Animal Services overwhelmed by distemper outbreak among raccoons
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Whales in the news! Are icebreakers ruining narwhals’ summer getaway?
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Canada‘s largest EVER private conservation project
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Toronto Zoo welcomes a baby orangutan
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The giant crocodiles that once roamed prehistoric B.C.
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Wildlife Wednesday: Northern map turtles “breathe” through their skin to survive winter ice
02Wildlife Wednesday: bottlenose dolphins use “baby talk” to communicate with their young
03Wildlife Wednesday: 14 new pups born at Vancouver Island marmot “dream home”
04The accidentals: Mapping the bird “vagrants” that found themselves far from home
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After burn: The new face of fire puts wildlife on the hot seat
How Canada’s wildlife is struggling to cope with the human-induced forcings of climate change
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Working towards a wild pollinator strategy for Canada
As wild pollinator populations continue to decline, researchers are working to develop a vision for Canada’s pollinator protection
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Muskoxen: the tundra’s ultimate survivors
Muskoxen have roamed the tundra for millennia, but today these woolly beasts are facing a number of very modern threats to their existence
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Hide and seek: The race to save the Vancouver Island Marmot
In the field with researchers and volunteers scrambling to save Canada’s most endangered mammal
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Giving Bambi the boot
Our love of deer runs deep. But as their numbers surge and damage mounts, it may be time for a reckoning.
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Death on the ocean floor: a great white shark mystery
Encountering the carcass of one of the ocean’s top predators and how studying its remains can help researchers save the living
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Wildlife Wednesday: peregrine falcons use ‘false alarm’ attacks to tire out prey
Plus: 3,000 illegal shark fins seized by the DFO, Atlantic Canada’s seals under investigation, salmon use ‘cooling stations’ to de-stress, and 16-kilogram tortoise found wandering spinach patch
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Wildlife Wednesday: cage diving with great white sharks comes to Nova Scotia
Plus: Canada jay sibling rivalry, northern leopard frogs bounce back, waterfowl struggling in the prairies, and Pokémon Go meets wildlife in new mobile game
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The fright of a lifetime: Accidentally encountering a great white shark in Canada
Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark shares his experience coming face-to-face with one of the ocean’s top predators while scuba diving near Halifax, N.S.
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Jawsome: behind the scenes of Canada’s newest great white shark documentary
Korean-Canadian filmmaker Sonya Lee dives deep into the world of great white sharks for the latest documentary from CBC’s The Nature of Things
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Crossing Paths: New photography project takes aim at the impacts of transportation on wildlife
The debut campaign launched by the Canadian Conservation Photographers Collective brings awareness to threats to wildlife from roads, railway transit, ocean transportation and air traffic
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Our fascination with mammoths
How the legacy of these woolly giants persists in pop culture, storytelling, ecology and even the controversial idea of de-extinction
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Announcing the winners of the 2023 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition
Canadian Geographic is pleased to honour 15 photographers for their outstanding images of Canadian wildlife
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An Indigenous perspective on the Canada jay
Arguments for the official recognition of the Canada jay as the country’s national bird
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Wildlife Wednesday: the titanic ants that once roamed prehistoric B.C.
Plus: bald eagles take to farms, a wayward puffin shows up in New Brunswick, new study finds not all orca hunt the same, and a new approach to hatching salmon
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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition
Canadian Geographic is pleased to honour 14 photographers for their outstanding images of Canadian wildlife
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Wildlife Wednesday: Perfectly preserved baby mammoth found in the Yukon
Plus: Colossal tree discovery in B.C., hope for Quebec’s musical frogs, what we can learn from ancient West Coast fish bones and Newfoundland’s Buddy Wasisname immortalized as ancient fossil!
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Wildlife Wednesday: Toronto Zoo animals threatened by wildlife smoke
Plus: Rapidly evolving cod, surprise science, two new bird monitoring stations and how to protect clams against extreme heat
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A labour of love: Using photo-identification to track Pacific white-sided dolphins
“What are they doing and why are they here and what’s their story?”
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Wildlife Wednesday: do octopuses dream of underwater sheep?
Plus: Hvaldamir the spy whale, White Gladis the vengeful orca, the sparrows that switch part of their brain off, and the decayed giant washed up on P.E.I.
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In graphic detail: What’s on the menu for killer whales?
From herring to narwhal to seal, killer whale diets vary across the North Atlantic
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Q&A: The masterminds behind the first grizzly rewilding program
CBC Gem documentary “Grizzly Rewild” follows five grizzlies raised in captivity as they’re reintroduced to a world without walls
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Wildlife Wednesday: do trees really use underground networks of fungi to talk?
Plus: Orca missing out on the fattiest fish, the happy decline of humpback whale song, the 3,000-year-old caribou calving grounds and B.C.’s crabby green-shelled army
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Up close with the penguins of the Arctic
What Wildlife Conservation Society Canada scientists discovered after examining a colony of thick-billed murres in Cape Parry, N.W.T.
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Would you trust a groundhog?
Celebrating Groundhog Day with wildlife expert Michael Runtz
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11 fun lagomorph facts for Lunar New Year
It’s the Year of the Rabbit! Here are Can Geo’s favourite facts on the taxonomic order that houses rabbits, hares and pikas
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Wildlife Wednesday: baby boom sparks hope for North Atlantic right whale
Plus: the geese freed after days frozen in icy blocks, the B.C. sea sponges with COVID-blocking superpowers, the bald eagle saved by groundbreaking surgery, and the danger migrating beavers pose to the North
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The (re)naming of caribou
The failure to recognize distinct species and subspecies of caribou is hampering efforts to conserve them. So, I revised their taxonomy.
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Wildlife Wednesday: Costa’s hummingbird found livin’ on a Prairie
Plus: the extinct mega-herbivore that once shaped kelp forests, the rare fern fueling a Cape Breton golf course controversy, the great gray owl’s hunting skills revealed, and the continuing crash of Canada’s fish stocks despite investment.
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On silent wings: Can snowy owls survive a warming climate?
Snowy owls have evolved to survive the harsh environment of the Arctic tundra, but can they survive its warming?
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Celebrating Polar Bear Week with a collection of our favourite bear-themed stories
Honouring one of Canada’s most beloved bears with stories about how polar bears hunt, how they are adapting to life on land, how they may have evolved and more!
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Wildlife Wednesday: what’s happening to Nechako River’s giant sturgeon?
Plus: polar bears lacking fat, lady beetles invading Quebec, rockfish conservation takes a hit and floating islands could clean feedlot runoff
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Wildlife Wednesday: how chaos theory can explain narwhals’ weird behaviour
Plus: size matters for female bighorn sheep, the hidden migration of North American dragonflies, helping trees move north and the great white who drew itself
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Comprendre le comportement animal est essentiel pour la conservation de la biodiversité
En comprenant pourquoi les animaux se comportent comme ils le font, nous pouvons mieux les protéger tout en sensibilisant les gens à leur statut précaire
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Why understanding animal behaviour is key for biodiversity conservation
By understanding why animals do what they do, we can better protect them while making people care
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Wildlife Wednesday: blue shark sightings boom in the Bay of Fundy
Plus: a sticky new way to track polar bears, curious squirrel behaviour, Canada’s answer to the Galapagos and the algal experiment blasting off into space.
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Wildlife Wednesday: new technique produces much needed female wood bison calves at Toronto Zoo
Plus: “bees of the sea” are pollinating underwater plants, snow geese are bouncing back hard, Greenland sharks are appearing in unlikely waters and birds are proving smarter than ever
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Bioacoustics: What nature’s sounds can tell us about the health of our world
Recording the soundscapes of our ecosystems is a burgeoning field that allows researchers to better decode what the Earth is saying. But are we listening?
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Wildlife Wednesday: SOS! Save our spirit bears!
Plus: muscle re-growing beetles, hitchhiking black widows, root farming pocket gophers and a 40th chick for the world’s oldest common loon
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Dead or alive: A dive into the landing ban on endangered shortfin mako sharks
Under Canadian leadership, the landing ban means more sharks will survive accidental capture — but is it enough?
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Unravelling the genetic secrets of an ice age relic
The deepwater sculpin thrives in deep lakes and cold temperatures. Researchers are now sequencing its genome to unravel the genetic secrets of this iconic Canadian fish
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Wildlife Wednesday: Baby bobcat rescued in Nova Scotia cold, wet, but alive
Plus: Mapping North America’s sea ducks, collecting Yukon’s mosquitos, celebrating Newfoundland’s pine marten success and a rebound for Antarctica’s fin whales
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Wildlife Wednesday: what came first, the polar bear or the grizzly?
Plus, more news from the North: new polar bear population brings hope, Nunavik sentinel discovers new butterfly species, N.W.T. gets a new National Wildlife Area and Canada’s Arctic provides a blueprint for life on Mars.
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Wildlife Wednesday: Burgeoning hope for Alberta’s burrowing owls
Plus: skydiving salamanders, Canada’s returning monarch, orca blubber insights, and the woodpecker-wasp conservation dream team.
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Think like a bear: learning to coexist
Humans and bears are sharing more landscapes now than ever before. As we continue to invade their world, will we be able to coexist?
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Collision course: Making Canada’s cities more bird-friendly
How one grassroots organization in Toronto makes our glass landscapes less deadly for birds.
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A library full of sound: How a new collection of underwater sounds will help protect marine life
The Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds (GLUB) will catalogue sounds from whales to fish (glub?) to boat noise
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