Animals articles from January 2002

Animals archives from January 2002

Reaffirming the commitment. (View Point).
January 1, 2002... By now we have heard time and again that, following September 11, the world will never be the same. As that day's horrific events unfolded, we at the MSPCA strove to put our sorrow and concern to work by helping in any way we could. At once, I...

Black-footed ferrets.
January 1, 2002... More than two dozen black-footed ferrets, extinct in Mexico and endangered in the United States, were released on a private ranch near Janos, Mexico, southwest of El Paso, Texas, in early October. Only 18 of the ferrets remained in the wild in...

Mouflon.
January 1, 2002... An endangered species of sheep, the mouflon, has been cloned. Researchers at the University of Teramo in Italy followed the basic techniques used five years ago to clone the sheep known as Dolly. Mouflons are found on the Mediterranean islands...

Shark.
January 1, 2002... Shark feeding in Florida has been banned effective January 1. Although the regulations apply to a variety of marine animals, the strongest opposition has been from operators of shark-feeding dives for tourists. Florida wildlife officials...

Elephants.
January 1, 2002... A three-year project to truck 1,000 elephants from South Africa into Mozambique began this fall. The historic transfer aims at establishing a massive, borderless reserve that will also stretch into Zimbabwe. Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park is...

Minke whales.
January 1, 2002... The United States has called upon Japan to stop hunting minke whales. The International Whaling Commission's concerns that minke populations may have seriously declined failed to sway the Japanese whaling fleet, which set sail on November 5.

Strange attraction. (Animals Talk).
January 1, 2002... Love is blind At least it seems that way when dolphins are the objects of affection. Among all the creatures of the sea, these intelligent marine mammals are the animals people feel closest to. Yet this has not stopped our species from...

Innocence. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2002... Today, on my way in to work, the radio I was listening to had a moment of silence for the victims of September 11. Later I saw firefighters in the street collecting money for their relief fund, and I began to cry. I felt a paw hitting at my...

Amazon advocate. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2002... The great display of colorful images in "Amazon Visions" (Fall 2001) really made me think about the wonders of the rainforest. But it was depressing to learn that it could virtually disappear in my lifetime. As suggested in the Animals...

Law under fire: the law that protects endangered animals now needs protection itself. (Endangered Species Act).
January 1, 2002... The southwestern willow flycatcher is a small, grayish green bird with a whitish throat and a light gray-olive breast. But if you ask Peter Galvin for a description, he'll tell you the bird is invisible. Galvin, a conservation biologist and...

A Royal Air Force: with beauty and grace, the world's largest seabird takes command of the sky.
January 1, 2002... For most people, the chances of seeing a royal albatross is slimmer than finding a needle in a haystack. With only 7,700 pairs of the northern subspecies (Diomedea epomophora sanfordi) in the world, most nesting on the remote Chatham Islands,...

Man of the wild. (Profile).
January 1, 2002... George Schaller has been called the greatest naturalist of our time. He is the field biologist's field biologist. And he is the famous central character in Peter Matthiessen's book The Snow Leopard--George Schaller the tough, determined,...

The trouble with Dolphin swims: why swim-with-dolphin programs have some folks making waves.
January 1, 2002... It was 3 A.M. when Ric O'Barry heard the boat pull up to his campsite. He was spending yet another night zipped inside his tent, plunked down in a remote patch of jungle bordering Guatemala's Graciosa Bay. He heard voices, the constant shuffle...

Pets welcome! Renting? The right approach can help pet owners land that dream apartment.
January 1, 2002... Andy Calafut had been living in his Boston apartment for 12 years when his landlord decided to empty her triple-decker of tenants, renovate, and double the rent. "That was about 3 years ago, and the rental market was very tight," says Calafut....

A boyfriend-dog conflict. (Case Notes).
January 1, 2002... Paco, my four-year-old schnauzer, is very jealous of my new boyfriend. Whenever we cuddle on the couch, Paco starts to growl at him and sometimes even tries to pull him away from me by grabbing and tugging on his pant leg. What should we do?...

Health watch.(birds)
January 1, 2002... I have two four-year-old female cockatiels. I know that they can lay eggs without having had contact with a male bird. One of ours did recently, but we can't tell which one. What should I do about this egg? Will they lay more? Normally...

The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans. (Review).
January 1, 2002... The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans, by Sy Montgomery, with photographs by Eleanor Briggs (Houghton Mifflin, $16). Exquisitely written and beautifully photographed, Montgomery's book is set in the vast mangrove swamps between India and...

The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours. (Review).
January 1, 2002... The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours, by Jane Goodall (Scholastic Press, $17.95). Goodall's legendary life inspired this autobiography, which includes an impassioned introduction to chimpanzees, the land they live in, and the...

Chelonia: Return of the Sea Turtle. (Review).
January 1, 2002... Chelonia: Return of the Sea Turtle, by Dawn E. Navarro, Robert E. Snodgrass, and Wallace J. Nichols (Sea Challengers, $16.95). In this gorgeously illustrated true story, a young girl and her father get caught in a storm at sea and befriend an...

Bear Dogs: Canines with a Mission. (Review).
January 1, 2002... Bear Dogs: Canines with a Mission, by Ted Wood (Walker, $16.95). In this true-life tale, readers meet Carrie Hunt and her Karelian bear dogs. "Every year," writes Wood, "more and more bears get into trouble as they lose their natural fear of...

Journey into the Rainforest. (Review).
January 1, 2002... Journey into the Rainforest, by Tim Knight, with photographs by Tim Knight and Juan Pablo Moreiras (Oxford University Press, $18.95). This richly photographed book takes young explorers through the world's jungles, introducing them to the...

The Hidden Powers of Animals: Uncovering the Secrets of Nature. (Review).
January 1, 2002... The Hidden Powers of Animals: Uncovering the Secrets of Nature, by Karl P. N. Shuker (Reader's Digest, $30). How do sharks use electricity? How do elephants communicate with other elephants across vast distances? How have lost pets traveled...