Animals articles from July 1998

Animals archives from July 1998

Land of the panda. (China's pandas)
July 1, 1998... Habitat loss, poaching, and even the panda's own charisma threaten the species' survival. It is an eerie morning in remote western China, and a dark, ominous cloud hangs over the deep Pitiao River gorge. Not until midmorning does the cloud...

Bison country, overseas. (European bison)(Brief Article)(Column)
July 1, 1998... For these bison, home on the range means Europe. There was a time when Europe--the most tilled, planted, drained, reshaped, and "civilized" of continents--was wild. Great bison herds roamed throughout deep forests and open plains of what we...

Return to the wild. (reintroducing wolves to their habitat)(Cover Story)
July 1, 1998... Wolf reintroductions have taken off--but not without howls of protest. Laughter and excitement rippled through the small crowd of biologists, journalists from the nation's major media, and wolf advocates crunching on foot through the snow...

Deep-sea voyagers. (exploring sea creatures)
July 1, 1998... High-tech detectives unlock the mysteries of ocean migrants. A. Peter Klimley, a researcher from California's Bodega Marine Laboratory, pulled on his face mask, gulped a breath of air, and dived into a school of sharks. He jabbed one shark...

A cop's best friend. (police dogs)
July 1, 1998... It was 3:04 in the morning when K-9 Officer Andy Thomas was called from his Idaho home to the scene of a disturbance 40 miles away. Officers reported that an armed individual, apparently intoxicated with alcohol and/or drugs, was waving a...

Hot tips for cool pets. (keeping pets cool in the summer)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... With the Old Farmer's Almanac predicting a hotter than normal summer for most of the United States, the heat is on for dog and cat owners to take precautions against the danger of heat exhaustion and heatstroke for their pets. After all, cats...

A fine friend for the feathered. (protecting birds)
July 1, 1998... Anna Giordano stood up to hunters to curb a senseless slaughter. Each spring, hundreds of thousands of birds, flock after flock, fly north over the Mediterranean Sea. They are making their long trip home, their return migration. The...