Hacker News with Generative AI: Wildlife

Penguins Help to Map Antarctica's Growing Mercury Threat (scientificamerican.com)
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin feathers.

Antarctica, Environmental Science, Mercury Pollution, Wildlife

10 points by Brajeshwar 2 days ago | 1 comments

Worst avian flu crisis ever recorded spreads across Antarctica (elpais.com)
The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, which has caused the death of hundreds of millions of birds in the last five years around the world, is spreading across Antarctica, a pristine paradise for wildlife.

Avian Flu, Antarctica, Wildlife, Environmental Issues, Global Health

9 points by belter 4 days ago | 0 comments

The return of the buffalo is reviving portions of the ecosystem (nativesunnews.today)
“Bringing buffalo back to their ancestral homelands is essential to restoring the ecosystem.”~ Executive Director for Tanka Fund Dawn Sherman

Environment, Wildlife, Conservation

66 points by geox 11 days ago | 35 comments

Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam in 2 days and saved $1M (voxnews.al)
In the Czech Republic, beavers built a dam in two days, which local authorities had planned for 7 years.

Environmental Engineering, Wildlife, Government, Construction

229 points by croes 17 days ago | 129 comments

Nevada Ivanpah Solar Plant Accidentally Incinerates Up to 6k Birds a Year (2016) (sciencealert.com)
A rare and unusual type of solar power plant that concentrates sunlight in California is accidentally killing up to 6,000 birds every year, with staff reporting that the birds keep flying into its concentrated beams of sunlight, and spontaneously bursting into flames.

Solar Power, Environmental Impact, Accidents, Wildlife, Technology

36 points by walterbell 19 days ago | 57 comments

Spotted hyena found in Egypt for the first time in 5k years (phys.org)
A spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) has been found in South Eastern Egypt, the first recorded instance of the creature in this region for thousands of years.

Wildlife, Egypt, Zoology

97 points by wglb 22 days ago | 54 comments

'Super pod' of 1,500 dolphins captured on video as they cavort off Cali coast (apnews.com)
A miles-long cluster of dolphins has been filmed leaping and gliding across Carmel Bay off the central coast of California, forming an unusual “super pod” of more than 1,500 of the marine creatures.

Animals, California, Marine Life, Wildlife

8 points by c420 24 days ago | 1 comments

A New Hampshire libertarian utopia was foiled by bears (2020) (vox.com)
Seriously, this happened. You should absolutely read about it.

Politics, Society, New Hampshire, Wildlife, Humor

11 points by Cyclone_ 31 days ago | 0 comments

One of four lynx captured in Scottish Highlands dies (theguardian.com)
One of the four lynx captured in the Scottish Highlands this week has died.

Wildlife, Scotland, Conservation

6 points by howard941 41 days ago | 0 comments

Bird Buddy Launches 'Wonder' Camera for Watching Insects (macrumors.com)
The creators of Bird Buddy, a camera-equipped bird feeder, today showed off two products that are designed for watching insects, flowers, birds, and other flora and fauna.

Wildlife, Technology, Photography, Birds

4 points by Tomte 45 days ago | 2 comments

Boy, 7, found alive five days after going missing in 'lion-infested' game park (news.sky.com)
A young boy has been found alive five days after going missing in a "lion-infested" game park in Zimbabwe, officials have said.

Missing Persons, Wildlife, Zimbabwe

21 points by austinallegro 47 days ago | 9 comments

Chlamydia could make koalas extinct. Can a vaccine save them in time? (bbc.com)
This hospital is ground zero of a grim chlamydia epidemic which is killing thousands of koalas and making even more sterile, pushing the national icons to the brink of extinction.

Wildlife, Conservation, Health, Australia, Extinction

6 points by peutetre 52 days ago | 0 comments

Seagulls were a factor in collapse of California's iconic Santa Cruz wharf (sfgate.com)

Weather, Wildlife, Infrastructure, California

9 points by bryan0 55 days ago | 1 comments

The bald eagle is officially America's national bird. Here's why it took so long (npr.org)
The bald eagle has been a symbol of the United States for centuries, with its iconography plastered across currency, documents, flags, stamps, government buildings, military uniforms and more.

History, National Symbols, United States, Wildlife

5 points by divbzero 58 days ago | 0 comments

Bird flu kills more than half the big cats at a Washington sanctuary (cnn.com)

Animal Health, Wildlife, Disease Outbreaks, Conservation

169 points by bikenaga 58 days ago | 58 comments

Big Cats Die from Bird Flu at a Washington Sanctuary (nytimes.com)
Twenty big cats, including a half-Bengal tiger and four cougars, died between late November and mid-December at a sanctuary in Washington State after becoming infected with bird flu, according to the facility’s director.

Animal Health, Wildlife, Bird Flu, Washington State

8 points by JumpCrisscross 58 days ago | 2 comments

AI Decodes the Calls of the Wild (nature.com)
Listening to sperm whales has taught Shane Gero the importance of seeing the animals he studies as individuals, each with a unique history.

Artificial Intelligence, Animal Behavior, Wildlife, Research, Oceanography

90 points by bookofjoe 61 days ago | 37 comments

We don't know how many birds die in structural collisions (robertvanwey.substack.com)
A widely-touted argument against windmills is their alleged propensity to cause the rampant deaths of avian species.

Environmentalism, Wind Energy, Wildlife

25 points by chmaynard 65 days ago | 64 comments

Squirrels hunting and eating meat (gizmodo.com)
When you think of squirrels, you probably imagine cute, fluffy-tailed rodents stuffing their faces with nuts. This past summer, however, researchers photographed California ground squirrels viciously digging into rodent flesh.

Animal Behavior, Science, California, Wildlife

57 points by ulrischa 65 days ago | 52 comments

The Engineering of Wildlife Crossings (practical.engineering)
This is the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing under construction over the 101 just outside Los Angeles, California. When it’s finished in a few years, it will be the largest wildlife crossing (*of its kind*) on the planet. The bridge is 210 feet (64 meters) long and 174 feet (53 meters) wide, roughly the same breadth as the ten-lane superhighway it crosses. Needless to say, a crossing like this isn’t cheap.

Engineering, Wildlife, Construction, Environmentalism

61 points by impish9208 66 days ago | 6 comments

"The Custer Wolf is Dead." (1921) [pdf] (cdn.pbs.org)

History, Wildlife, Conservation

51 points by joebig 67 days ago | 12 comments

As Wolf Populations Rebound, an Angry Backlash Intensifies (e360.yale.edu)
The reintroduction of endangered wolves to Yellowstone National Park 30 years ago was a major conservation victory. But as wolves have spread across the West, anger and resentment at the apex predator has escalated, with hunters in some states increasingly targeting them.

Wildlife, Conservation, Environmentalism, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Politics

10 points by chmaynard 71 days ago | 8 comments

Miles of Russian Forest Couldn't Keep These Two Tigers Apart (nytimes.com)
When Russian scientists released a pair of orphaned Amur tiger cubs into the wild in a remote corner of Russia’s far east in 2014, they were trying to save a species.

Wildlife, Conservation, Russia, Endangered Species

18 points by Thevet 72 days ago | 12 comments

Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years (livescience.com)

Orcas, Animal Behavior, Trends, Marine Biology, Wildlife

15 points by pseudolus 83 days ago | 4 comments

An English castle became a stork magnet (bbc.com)
Helped by a bold rewilding project, storks are migrating between Britain and North Africa again for the first time in 600 years. How can we make their journey safer?

Wildlife, Conservation, Migration, England

67 points by ohjeez 89 days ago | 14 comments

Why are Indian and African wildlife so similar? (wanderingthru.com)
How and why is Indian and African wildlife so similar? This is a question that we as guides often get asked when guests are interested in exploring these two special places. This not only includes the large mammals, but birds and vegetation too.

Wildlife, India, Africa, Evolution, Biodiversity

6 points by rkwz 96 days ago | 3 comments

Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016) (cbc.ca)

Animals, Wildlife, Human-Animal Interactions, Conservation

43 points by thunderbong 97 days ago | 12 comments

Learn how to safely catch venomous funnel-web spiders (theguardian.com)
Hunting for potentially deadly, silky spider burrows in the back yard may not be on every Sydneysiders’ bucket list.

Wildlife, Australia, Safety, Spiders

8 points by bookofjoe 98 days ago | 1 comments

Islands of the Feral Pigs (hakaimagazine.com)
In Hawai‘i, people, pigs, and ecosystems only have so much room to coexist, and the pigs exist a little too much.

Wildlife, Hawaii, Environmental Issues, Conservation

46 points by PaulHoule 102 days ago | 26 comments

Why langurs drink salt water (idw-online.de)
Endangered Cat Ba langurs defy poor environmental conditions and show remarkable adaptation

Wildlife, Biology, Adaptation, Endangered Species

17 points by gmays 105 days ago | 28 comments