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In the second article in The Scotsman’s series, Scotland’s Wonderful Wildlife, Dr Helen Scales describes her attempts to see orcas and explains how she realised it’s alright to be both ...
The southern resident orcas have been spy-hopping, breaching, slapping their tails, chasing down chum salmon and dazzling onlookers from the shores of the Salish Sea. For nearly a month ...
Jane Wheatley examines the dire situation facing the king of fish. The wild Atlantic salmon, kingpin and ‘natural royalty’ of the river, is officially an endangered species in Britain. Stocks recorded ...
Clark Wendlandt of Leander recently announced that he will retire from professional bass fishing after 33 years. Wendlandt, 58, is one of the sport’s most decorated and consummate anglers with ...
industries and wastewater sources that are harmful to salmon and orcas. Your choice: If we’re going to assign significance to the actions of observably intelligent marine mammals, you can take ...
In the south-west Pacific, off the coast of one of the tropical Solomon Islands, a giant structure beneath the water’s surface has just been identified as the world’s largest known coral.
Or the tackle box where I suspected something must have died inside weeks ago but was afraid to look? No. It was a spawned-out salmon lodged in a tree limb that was way above our heads. I told the ...
Many migratory birds use Earth’s magnetic field as a compass, but some can also use information from that field to determine more or less where they are on a mental map. Eurasian reed warblers ...
A new species of tardigrades with thousands of genes that become more active when exposed to radiation could help in devising better protection for astronauts on long missions. When you purchase ...
he noticed the orcas were not there to forage, but to explore. Southern residents typically hunt in smaller, spread-out groups and take long, deep dives. Instead of looking for salmon, they poked ...