Animals articles from September 1997

Animals archives from September 1997

Invaders at the gate.(survival of the Little Kern golden trout)
September 1, 1997... With a little help, a native fish survives. The Little Kern golden trout has never wandered far from its mountain habitat, 5,000 to 9,000 feet high in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Tulare County, California. Nor has its special...

The avian Johnny Appleseed: the common blue jay plays a vital role in forest regeneration.
September 1, 1997... The ice once stretched all the way from the Arctic to Pennsylvania, from Washington State across to New Jersey. During the Pleistocene, winter was really long: it lasted most of two million years. But spring came fast on the heels of the...

Fight the fat: the weight-loss struggle reaches America's pets.
September 1, 1997... Glancing down at my new patient's record, I noticed an apparent discrepancy. "Sasha, eight-year-old, domestic shorthair," the record read; but then, the 18-pound weight had to be wrong. As I stepped into the exam room, I realized it was I who...

Wild & free no more.(bison slaughter in Montana)
September 1, 1997... First, put yourself in the landscape, a rough, edgy country of sagebrush benchlands encircled by snowy plateaus and weathered mountain ridges, a land of big skies and sweeping vistas. The Yellowstone River carves a deep rift through it. The...

Llama trekking: hikers discover the joy of woolly trail companions.
September 1, 1997... When Dan Quayle went trekking in Montana's glacier country during his term as vice president, he must have thanked his lucky stars for the unfailing surefootedness of his four-legged travel companions. Without the woolly Ilamas, he might have...

Chains of violence: a hard look at violence reveals a link between cruelty to animals and cruelty to people.
September 1, 1997... Not long ago, 15-year-old Joey Bader admitted to New Hampshire State Police that he roasted his mother's parakeets in the oven. It was part of a campaign of terror that his father apparently sanctioned, a campaign that ended with the murder of...

Sherlock Bones to the rescue: a real-life Ace Ventura goes to the hounds - and other lost pets.(John Keane)
September 1, 1997... Many years ago, John Keane got a call from a screenwriter looking for some free information. It seems the writer was developing a script about a pet detective, and John was the only real-life counterpart to his lead character, an oddball guy...

Gator Aide.
September 1, 1997... As a contributing editor and investigative reporter for Animals, Jessica Speart has already made an impression on readers interested in the ins and outs of wildlife protection. Topics such as the connection between wildlife smuggling and the...