Karen Brunelas didn't need a Fish and Game wildlife expert to confirm what she already knew: her family was visited by a bobcat. She and her husband, John, were waiting for company around 4 p.m. Saturday when they spotted the animal under a tree,
Willowbrook Wildlife Center in Glen Ellyn offers the following suggestions for deterring coyotes. These are things to remember to keep the division clear between humans and coyotes.
Are bears in the schoolyard a threat to students or a living, breathing educational tool? That's the debate raging in Port Coquitlam, where humans and bears alike enjoy the wilderness of Burke Mountain and the salmon-rich Coquitlam River.
A two-year-old male black bear slept in a tree behind a home in a Lake City neighborhood for over four hours before being safely removed by officers and biologists from the Fish and Wildlife Commission.
A black bear got some tough love that should keep him away from neighborhoods. The male bear broke into trash cans that were locked up. "He brought his paw down here and broke off some of the old rotten wood," explains homeowner Joan Burlingame.
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is working in Yosemite National Park and the Lake Tahoe Basin, to address threats to black bears from rapid ex-urban growth in this region.
In most areas of the world, local attitudes towards large carnivores are directly related to proximity - the closer the predators, the more uncompromising attitudes become. Big cats and other carnivores that kill livestock soon become targets for the
Don't get too excited to tell your future grandchildren you remember the "Milton cougar" of 2008. Cougar sightings are likely to become more common, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wildlife supervisor Doug Fendry said.
The distinctive call of the coyote or "song dog" can be heard all across our state - from the more welcoming rural areas of wooded forests and open fields to the less inviting backyards of metro Atlanta neighborhoods. Rapid human population growth across
Sherry Casler lay fast asleep when her coonhound beagle mix began barking wildly. It was 3:30 a.m. Casler jumped out of bed and peered out her bedroom window. Across the street in her Seminole neighborhood, she could see what she thought were two
A "persistent" mountain lion was shot three times with bean bags Monday night in the 900 block of Ninth Street after a man reported seeing it eating a raccoon in his University Hill yard, according to Boulder police.
The black bear roaming around Paramus on Thursday probably came to the borough from the north along the Saddle River, a state wildlife official said after helping to subdue the animal.
Last Sunday at dusk, Bill McManus thought the dog padding toward him on the Ventana Canyon Trail in the Catalina Foothills looked like a golden retriever. Then he realized it was a mountain lion.
A real sign of spring is the first birdfeeder alert from Fish and Game. This is to alert you to the awaking of our black bear population that is estimated at 4,600. Every fall bears go into hibernation when the amount of energy they expend exceeds the
