
Wildlife
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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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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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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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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From herring to narwhal to seal, killer whale diets vary across the North Atlantic
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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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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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By understanding why animals do what they do, we can better protect them while making people care
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Under Canadian leadership, the landing ban means more sharks will survive accidental capture — but is it enough?
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One man’s endeavour to save the province’s most endangered snake
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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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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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“We just knew no fish would get by. Not without our help.” Behind the scenes of the epic campaign to save a Fraser River salmon run.
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Plus: Toronto zoo waits for the vaccine and Fundy salmon take a big leap
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Salmon runs are failing and grizzlies seem to be on the move in the islands between mainland B.C. and northern Vancouver Island. What’s going on in the Broughton Archipelago?
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In the field with researchers and volunteers scrambling to save Canada’s most endangered mammal
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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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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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Celebrating Groundhog Day with wildlife expert Michael Runtz
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Plus: wolverine genome is sequenced for first time, Arctic fish species is found to produce antifreeze, dinosaur fossil discovered showing some skin and a pesky Canadian insect is feeling the heat
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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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The Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds (GLUB) will catalogue sounds from whales to fish (glub?) to boat noise
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Plus: Marathon hare migrations, increasingly efficient wolves, wandering basking sharks and homemaking bees
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Plus: hybrid birds, a new study on tiger sharks, the importance of parks and octopuses that throw
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Plus: the albatross that loved Vancouver Island, a rare butterfly comeback, PEI lobsters to take a new kind of bait and the migratory birds on a potentially fatal collision course.
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Plus: Montreal’s mischievous fox, the supersized goldfish invading Canada’s lakes, Arctic fungi under threat and an Indigenous-led movement to collect Canada’s seeds.
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Plus: a caribou’s dinner, avian “flyways,” what astronauts can learn from squirrels — and blue whale tongue-eating orcas
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Plus: Arctic-bound beavers, New Brunswick’s rare vulture visit, Manitoba’s cougar comeback and Canada’s feistiest flora
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Plus: the true history of horses in North America, herring spawning in new waters, and how to protect road-crossing salamanders
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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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CBC Gem documentary “Grizzly Rewild” follows five grizzlies raised in captivity as they’re reintroduced to a world without walls
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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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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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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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First Nations and scientists work side by side to better understand — and protect — coastal wolves living in the Great Bear Rainforest
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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How data is helping us understand why these birds are being found outside of their geographical range
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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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How one grassroots organization in Toronto makes our glass landscapes less deadly for birds.
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The new president of Birds Canada gives us an inside look at Canada’s largest citizen science movement
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Wildlife names that could use a rebrand
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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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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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In the boreal forest, where secretive lynx depend on the snowshoe hare to survive, climate change threatens to upset this longstanding predator-prey relationship
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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Canadian Geographic is pleased to honour 14 photographers for their outstanding images of Canadian wildlife
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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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After more than a million years on Earth, the caribou is under threat of global extinction. The precipitous decline of the once mighty herds is a tragedy that is hard to watch — and even harder to reverse.
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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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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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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Why Canada’s cougars are on the rise — and what that means for us
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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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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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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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Jo-Anne McArthur’s photo of a kangaroo and joey who survived the 2020 Australian bushfires is up for the 2021 People’s Choice Award in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition
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Largely unheralded until Canadian Geographic’s National Bird Project was held, the renamed Canada jay — formerly grey jay — has become in many minds the country’s national bird
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This past summer an ambitious wildlife under/overpass system broke ground in B.C. on a deadly stretch of highway just west of the Alberta border. Here’s how it happened.
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Jill Heinerth explores what can we learn from the lifecycle of freshwater mussels
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The award-winning marine conservationist shares her passion for seahorses and marine life by encouraging young minds to save tomorrow’s oceans
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Plus: a new name for an old pest, a new fund for chimney swifts, giant sponges found on deepsea volcanoes — and the poison weighing down North America's eagles.
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Plus: skydiving salamanders, Canada’s returning monarch, orca blubber insights, and the woodpecker-wasp conservation dream team.
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From plants to ants, Canadian Geographic’s 2020 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year Competition showcases the best of the year’s wildlife photography
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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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Project will use satellite imagery to track walrus populations and habitats and guide their conservation
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And moreover, should it? Plus: Dinosaur fight club, birds about town, and tracking whale whoops
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Plus: Tree species at risk, inbreeding polar bears, and a 20,000-kilometre butterfly chase
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The predatory whale’s scientific name pays tribute to Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of death
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Plus: Cross-dressing hummingbirds, tracking genetically modified animals, and Arctic “junk food”
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Plus: Bacterial “first responders,” modelling cod and more marmots
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Plus: Racing to find a vaccine for chronic wasting disease, narwhal “flukeprints” and tool-using polar bears
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Highlights and headlines from the world of wildlife this week
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Researchers used chemical tracers to map the movements of an ancient woolly mammoth
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news