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The township’s Trap Neuter Return (TNR) program is going strong thanks to the efforts of a number of loyal volunteers. John Talty, who chairs the committee, explained that sometimes a resident calls ...

Finding an opossum on your deck can catch you off guard, but there’s usually no need to panic. Opossums are shy, gentle animals that prefer to avoid conflict and will typically move on once they feel ...

DEAR JOAN: We have an opossum living at the base of a shrub in our side yard. We generally don’t go near there, only when we take the garbage to the curb weekly. Related Articles Why are birds ...

Seventy-six V shaped stone walls high in northern Chile are not just random ruins. A new study maps them as large animal traps that funneled herds into corrals. The traps span about 1,790 square miles ...

Animals across the globe employ a remarkable survival trick called thanatosis, or tonic immobility. This involves feigning death to escape predators.

Staff at an animal shelter in South Carolina got quite a surprise when a very strange-looking "dog" showed up unannounced. "We saw a WEIRD looking dog today (our opossum friend was safely returned to ...

MISSOULA – On a hillside in northwest Montana, Mahdieh Tourani secures a camera to a tree. She gives the straps anchoring the camera a good tug, and when it doesn’t move, she steps back to admire her ...

ABSTRACT: In order to slow down climate change, scientists recommend reducing the use of pollutant energy sources and developing renewable energies to both cope with excessive CO2 emissions and ...