The New York Pigeon
Photographer Andrew Garn’s book is a coffee table love letter to a bird that doesn’t always get much love. Garn explains their long history cohabitating with humans. He examines their physiology and development. He talks...
Please see the below articles about Terrestrial Wildlife from past editions of the AWI Quarterly.
Lion Hearted
Author Andrew Loveridge is a veteran wildlife biologist with many years’ experience working on lion research in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. Raised in Zimbabwe and educated at Oxford, he’s the biologist who, in 2008, first...
The Great Apes
The Great Apes: A Short History, recently translated from French into English, is a comprehensive history of primatology. Many readers may not know that the roots of primatology lie in the exploits and adventures of...
Finding Noninvasive Methods to Survey Wild Horse Populations
Dr. Karen Herman, Executive Director, Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary The 23,882-acre Jarita Mesa Wild Horse Territory (JMWHT) is located in rugged, forested mountain terrain in the Carson National Forest of New Mexico. Prior to...
Nose for Trouble: Using Dogs to Detect Rodenticides
by Dr. Ngaio L. Richards and Dr. Deborah Woollett San Joaquin kit foxes know auspicious habitat when they see it, but would not know if it is free of harmful anticoagulant rodenticide baits or of...
Under Fire, Mother Bears Alter Tactics
Brown bear mothers in Sweden are apparently changing their reproductive strategy in response to hunting, according to a new study (Van de Walle et al., 2018). The study found that prior to 2005, only about...
Marmosets Spread the Wealth When No One Sees
In 2007, a study at the University of Zurich (Burkart et al., 2007) looked at cooperative behavior among common marmosets ( Callithrix jacchus). The study found that the animals spontaneously provided food to “nonreciprocating and...
Citizens Trip Bobcat Trapping Proposals in Two States
This year, Indiana and Ohio officials floated the idea of establishing trapping seasons for bobcats in their respective states (and a hunting season in Indiana). Fortunately, after local AWI members and others expressed fierce disapproval...
Snare Claims Wolf in Gruesome Fashion
A wolf in Minnesota was shot and killed this February after a truly horrible encounter with a strangling snare. Wolves are not legal targets for such devices, but snares are sanctioned year-round to kill coyotes...
Wilderness Way in Senegal Named After AWI Founder
Swing open the main gate at Senegal’s Ferlo North Wildlife Reserve and a broad avenue greets you, unfolding for more than two miles across an idyllic African landscape. The landscape is idyllic because it has...