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Would you trust a groundhog?
Celebrating Groundhog Day with wildlife expert Michael Runtz
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Celebrating Groundhog Day with wildlife expert Michael Runtz
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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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Plus: protecting Canada’s caribou and the struggle of the black spruce
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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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“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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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
Wildlife Wednesday: The “wonderful net” protecting whales and dolphins from deep-sea brain damage
02Whales in the news! Are icebreakers ruining narwhals’ summer getaway?
03A library full of sound: How a new collection of underwater sounds will help protect marine life
04Scientists solve mystery of lunge-feeding whales
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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
Bioacoustics: What nature’s sounds can tell us about the health of our world
02Wildlife Wednesday: Perfectly preserved baby mammoth found in the Yukon
03The giant crocodiles that once roamed prehistoric B.C.
04Wildlife Wednesday: out-of-control hogs, sex-sorted bison, and indigenous forest gardens
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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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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: 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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Canadian Geographic is pleased to honour 14 photographers for their outstanding images of Canadian wildlife
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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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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: skydiving salamanders, Canada’s returning monarch, orca blubber insights, and the woodpecker-wasp conservation dream team.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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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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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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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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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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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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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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Photographer Martin Gregus recounts his summer 2020 expedition to the western coast of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba
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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