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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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Plus: hybrid birds, a new study on tiger sharks, the importance of parks and octopuses that throw
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Snowy owls have evolved to survive the harsh environment of the Arctic tundra, but can they survive its warming?
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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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: Arctic-bound beavers, New Brunswick’s rare vulture visit, Manitoba’s cougar comeback and Canada’s feistiest flora
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Also: Climate changed restaurant menus, sandhill cranes in New Brunswick, bears waking up from their slumber — and a pesky woodpecker hits Canada where it hurts
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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: good news for Roosevelt elk, a new look for Alberta bison, a genetic disposition to wander for caribou and a big wildlife boost for southern Ontario
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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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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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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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Plus: protecting Canada’s caribou and the struggle of the black spruce
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It's your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news!
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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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“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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DNA sequencing like that used to track COVID-19 helps scientists trace the origins of salmon pathogens in B.C.
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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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Human and bears sharing more landscapes now than ever before. As we continue to invade their world, will we be able to coexist?
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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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Photographer Martin Gregus recounts his summer 2020 expedition to the western coast of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba
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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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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: 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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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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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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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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Why Canada’s cougars are on the rise — and what that means for us
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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Jill Heinerth explores what can we learn from the lifecycle of freshwater mussels
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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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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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At least 50 species of fish can be found in the Arctic drainage basin in Ontario
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Measuring differences in posing behaviours could help farmers choose the best cleaners to use for sea-lice control
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An essential process has shaped and moulded the lives of migratory birds
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A look at how global warming impacts foundational conditions for entire ecosystems
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Gorgeously illustrated and woven from centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes, The Bedside Book of Birds is for everyone who is passionate about birds and all they mean to humanity
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Melanie Challenger explores the conflict between humanity and the animal in her new book, How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to be Human
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A tire preservative is killing U.S. salmon en masse. The same may be happening in Canada.
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As polar bears spend more time on land as a result of melting ice, they will have to shift their diets in order to survive
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The ancient looking coelacanth gained more than 60 genes in relatively recent history
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The smartWhales program relies on industry collaboration
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The goal is to help rejuvenate and restore the habitats of salmon across B.C.
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A memoir by Julia Zarankin
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RCGS Fellow Myrna Pearman offers her tips for a successful winter birding season
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Editor-in-chief and associate publisher Aaron Kylie contributed this chapter to a compilation book about the Canada Jay
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Sydni Long writes about her experience using citizen-reported sightings for the Ocean Bridge program
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The trickster hero — ferocious, clever and strong — will need all of its ingenuity to continue to flourish
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Sound is an integral part of a beluga’s life, so the quality of the underwater acoustic environment is very important for the health and survival of belugas
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In the 1990s, an abrupt decline in the fish-eating southern resident population dropped to 75 whales from 98
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He refers to them as ‘snow machines.’ Photographer Peter Mather has photographed wolverines in the Yukon and on Alaska’s North Slope