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Barnacle geese have developed new migration routes and breeding grounds amid warming global temperatures. 
The Big Fix
Animal species are evolving to adjust to climate change, but scientists say time is running out
Bullfighting is still legal in the Colombian city of Manizales, which holds a major festival on the first week of January.
Justice
Colombia’s plan to ban bullfighting sparks debate on tradition, animal rights
Antonio Lopez makes markings in the sand to show what sea turtle tracks look like.
Environment
From the desert to the sea, CRRIFS cares for and protects San Carlos wildlife
The walnut forests of southern Kyrgyzstan sprawl along the tops of steep hills. They are believed to be the largest natural walnut forest on earth.
Environment
Kyrgyzstan’s walnut forests dwindle with increased cattle farming, climate change
A Mexican gray wolf is seen in Eurkea, Montana, on May 20, 2019.
Critical State
Where wolves: Part II
Farmers in northeast Spain say the rabbits are wreaking havoc on crops like peaches, pistachios, olives and grapes.  
Business, Economics and Jobs
‘Either they die, or we do’: A rabbit plague threatens farmers’ livelihoods in northeast Spain
A visitor feeds straw to the zoo's four giraffes from outside their enclosure.
Ukraine
Ukraine’s zoos struggle to stay afloat during war, with traumatized animals and dwindling resources
A sea turtle heads back to the ocean after the tortugueros have finished gathering data on it
Environment
Kino Bay’s Becerra family gave up traditional fishing to focus on saving sea turtles
Forest firefighters work on a wildfire near the town of Jubrique, in Malaga province, Spain, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. 
Climate Change
‘Fire flocks’ of sheep and goats get deployed to help battle forest fires in Spain
Cows walk across charred areas of the Iberá wetlands devastated by fires in northern Argentina
Environment
Rebuilding efforts underway after devastating fires rage through Argentina’s northern wetlands
A marine iguana crawls along the beach on Rabida Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Environment
‘Magical’ animal encounters on the Galapagos Islands
Abenaki storyteller and musician Joseph Bruchac tells a story about what humans can learn from the bear.
Culture
Native American stories connect people with the animals around them
A yellow frog sits on a green leaf
Business
This frog farm in Colombia is trying to put poachers out of business
Smoke rises from the Bobcat Fire burning near Mount Wilson in the Angeles National Forest, near Los Angeles, Sept. 23, 2020.
The Big Fix
This author argues that fighting climate change means focusing on ‘Earth repair’
Wild boar next to apartment buildings
Environment
COVID-19 lockdowns are a unique chance to study human-wildlife interactions, researchers say
A French bulldog puppy looks at the camera
Lifestyle
Spotify creates podcast to save your pup from loneliness
A brown fox sits in the grass
Environment
One arctic fox’s incredible journey from Norway to Canada
Two cats put their heads together in a snuggle.
Lifestyle & Belief
It’s meow or never: Seoul’s street cats fight for love
A chimpanzee holds a grey blanket up in a tree.
Science
From fashion to tools, animal behaviors are often surprisingly human
McDonald’s Workers Allege Sexual Harassment by Colleagues
Full Episode
A humpback whale surfacing from the water surrounded by seagulls
The World in Words
If you could talk to the animals
Levee Wars, New Neurons, Animal Farts. April 6, 2018, Part 2
Full Episode
Bats have a specialized thin skin that allows their wings to change when a muscle is activated with every beat cycle of the wings.
Science
Researchers explore the fascinating biomechanics and neuroscience of bats
Do Animals Have Culture?
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
Taxidermy
Arts, Culture & Media
Livestock Portraitist
Arts, Culture & Media
Animal Artists
Arts, Culture & Media
Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
Arts, Culture & Media
Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
Arts, Culture & Media
Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
Arts, Culture & Media
Billboard Top Five, But for Whales
Arts, Culture & Media
Marianne Moore’s Odes to Animals
Arts, Culture & Media
A Guide to 2015’s Alt-Holiday Music
Arts, Culture & Media
Billboard Top Five, But For Whales
Arts, Culture & Media
Marianne Moore’s Odes to Animals
Arts, Culture & Media
E.T. (Eight Tentacles)
The common housefly makes up just one of 150 families of flies.
Science
‘The Secret Lives of Flies’ provides insight into the diversity of the small insects
Gen. Michael Hayden, The American Bison, Anxious Culture Wars
Full Episode
Hilda Tresz at the Rostov Zoo in Russia. Tresz works with zoos around the world to consult on animal welfare.
Culture
How to bring out the wild in zoo animals
It’s Only Post-Natural
Full Episode
Gaza Zoo Animals
Culture
Animals from ‘world’s worst’ zoo find a new home
Democratic Split, Comedian Ali Wong, A Defense of Zoos
Full Episode
Vlada Provotorova picks up dogs off the street and takes them to her makeshift shelter on the outskirts of Sochi.
Culture
How Russians and Americans have teamed up to rescue Sochi’s stray dogs
A pair of black widows (Latrodectus hesperus). Photo by Sean McCann
Science
Eight things spiders can do that you’ve never heard of
A sleepy cat in Istanbul.
Culture
More needs to be done to take care of these ridiculously cute cats in Istanbul
A vaquita swims in its natural habitat, somewhere in the northern part of the Gulf of California.
Science
A Mexican porpoise is facing extinction — almost by accident
Shabani
Culture
Hey girl, ‘too handsome’ gorilla is making many Japanese hearts flutter
Toronto Zoo resident Vishnu eats his breakfast. The zoo is hoping what happens next will be a big boost for them.
Technology
Toronto’s Zoo plans to turn its animal waste into electricity
Mikael Lindnord reunited with Arthur.
Culture
An Ecuadorian stray dog named Arthur finds his forever home in Sweden
Young male lions at sunrise in Tanzania.
Environment
How hunting lions might actually help save them
Sumatran tiger Melati looks inside a present box put out to celebrate the first birthday of her cub triplets in their enclosure at the London Zoo on February 4, 2015.
Science
Is it time to close all the zoos?
Miss P, a 15-inch Beagle who won "Best in Show," is run during the final judging at the 139th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden on February 17, 2015.
Lifestyle
A Canadian beagle takes the top prize at America’s biggest dog show
Camila Ferrara of the Wildlife Conservation Society records the sounds from South American river turtles on the beach before they even hatch from their eggs.
Science
It turns out turtles have something to say
water mite
Science
Jennifer Lopez has a species of water mite named after her. Really
Environment
Is Bigfoot a big myth? A new study testing hair DNA finds no proof
Environment
Facebook saved these bears from a life in captivity
Environment
Facebook saved these bears from a life in captivity
Environment
A Florida nail technician helped researchers develop a tracking device for endangered sea turtles
Global Scan
Avian flu kills a Canadian, and more in today’s global scan
Environment
For more accurate weather forecasts, follow the fish