Hacker News with Generative AI: Wildlife

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 4 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 5 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 5 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 9 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 13 days ago | 28 comments
Listening in on the Mysterious Marbled Murrelet (hakaimagazine.com)
The marbled murrelet is an elusive creature. At sea, the stubby seabird dives at the first sign of predators. On land, it lays its eggs high in the mossy branches of the Pacific Northwest’s old-growth forests—a fact only serendipitously discovered by a utility-company employee climbing trees in the 1970s.
Nature, Birds, Conservation, Pacific Northwest, Wildlife
7 points by ohjeez 18 days ago | 0 comments
Super-sized doggy door helps North Vancouver family coexist with local bear (globalnews.ca)
Most people are familiar with the concept of a doggy door, but how many have had the idea to super-size the concept?
Animals, Wildlife, Design, Home Improvement
6 points by speckx 19 days ago | 0 comments
Grizzly 399 dies after being struck by car south of Jackson (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
The famous grizzly bear 399 was struck and killed Tuesday evening, Oct. 22, by a car in the Snake River Canyon south of Jackson on Highway 26.
Wildlife, Animal Deaths, Accidents, Wyoming, News
3 points by segasaturn 27 days ago | 0 comments
Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats (hcn.org)
Every July, the western sandpiper, a dun-colored, long-beaked bird, leaves the shores of Alaska and migrates south. It may fly as far as the coast of Peru, where it spends several months before making the return trip. Western sandpipers travel along the Pacific Flyway, a strip of land that stretches along the Western coast of the Americas, from the Arctic down to Patagonia.
Wildlife, Conservation, Migration, Environment
16 points by pavel_lishin 29 days ago | 1 comments
One of Florida's most lethal python hunters (gardenandgun.com)
It is nearing midnight on an unpaved road bordering the Florida Everglades when Donna Kalil slams on the brakes. Light from her blue F-150 floods the scene along the road, where, within the grass, a sheen of iridescent skin glints, and the sinuous shape and inkblot pattern of a Burmese python leap into focus.
Florida, Wildlife, Hunting, Burmese Pythons
120 points by gmays 34 days ago | 148 comments
19th century lions preyed on humans and giraffes (phys.org)
In 1898, two male lions terrorized an encampment of bridge builders on the Tsavo River in Kenya.
Wildlife, History, Africa, Lions
51 points by wglb 40 days ago | 71 comments
Kenya's "man-eater" lions of the 19th century confirmed using DNA (cosmosmagazine.com)
DNA extracted from between the teeth of 2 Kenyan lion specimens from the 1890s shows that the animals ate humans, as well as giraffes and wildebeests.
Kenya, Lions, DNA, History, Wildlife
9 points by geox 40 days ago | 0 comments
Wildlife numbers plummet 73 percent over past half-century, report finds (aljazeera.com)
Wildlife populations across the globe have shrunk by more than 70 percent over the past half-century, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Wildlife, Conservation, Environment, Science, Report
6 points by Qem 42 days ago | 0 comments
The Romance of Seahorses (nautil.us)
A marine biologist and photographer gets up close and personal with mysterious pygmy seahorses.
Marine Biology, Photography, Wildlife
16 points by mooreds 46 days ago | 2 comments
One pioneering grizzly and her two cubs appear on Vancouver Island (hakaimagazine.com)
Joyce Ellis stood in the estuary near her home watching grizzly bears where grizzlies aren’t supposed to be.
Wildlife, Vancouver Island, Grizzly Bears
114 points by abscond 47 days ago | 61 comments
Migrating Seabirds Are Bringing Forever Chemicals into the Arctic (hakaimagazine.com)
Between March and May each year, 15 million black-legged kittiwakes gather from across the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to nest and breed on rocky Arctic cliffs—some making the journey from as far as Florida or North Africa.
Environmental Science, Climate Change, Wildlife, Arctic, Pollution
20 points by pseudolus 48 days ago | 0 comments
US man jailed for cloning giant sheep for trophy hunting (bbc.com)
A breeder in Montana has been jailed for six months for cloning a giant sheep species and selling its offspring at high prices for trophy hunting.
Cloning, Wildlife, Crime, Hunting, Montana
36 points by ucha 49 days ago | 30 comments
Invasive 20-pound rodents continue to spread in the Bay Area (sfgate.com)
Close to a thousand nutria have been hunted down in the Bay Area this year alone, and wildlife officials are urging people to share reports of the invasive, 2.5-foot-long rodents as recent sightings caught on camera show they’ve spread to Contra Costa County, posing a risk to a critical watershed.
Invasive Species, Wildlife, Environment, Bay Area, California
23 points by NoRagrets 49 days ago | 15 comments
Pine martens return to Dartmoor after 150-year absence (theguardian.com)
Fifteen pine martens are darting through the woods of Dartmoor for the first time in 150 years after the rare but recovering species was reintroduced into south-west England.
Wildlife, Conservation, England, Reintroduction
82 points by zeristor 50 days ago | 31 comments
Koalas are up power poles, on roads, in schools. Outlook for koalas remains poor (cnn.com)
Wildlife, Australia, Conservation, Environment, Climate Change
8 points by peutetre 52 days ago | 0 comments
Sea robins are fish with 'the wings of a bird and multiple legs like a crab' (cnn.com)
Marine Biology, Animals, Wildlife, Nature
21 points by Dore_nova 53 days ago | 6 comments
Iceland: Police shoot first polar bear sighted in years (dw.com)
Iceland, Wildlife, Polar Bears, Law Enforcement
5 points by type0 61 days ago | 3 comments
Wildlife experts warn of butterfly emergency as count reveals record low numbers (news.sky.com)
Conservationists have declared a "butterfly emergency" after a vast community survey recorded the lowest ever numbers of the insect.
Conservation, Environment, Wildlife, Insects
51 points by austinallegro 62 days ago | 2 comments
A dropped bag of Cheetos had 'world changing' impact on life in a cave (msn.com)
Unusual Events, Wildlife, Food
8 points by pseudolus 72 days ago | 2 comments
Wild Mustang and Burro Freeze Marks (2020) [pdf] (mustangheritagefoundation.org)
Animals, Wildlife, Conservation, Environmental Science, Photography
34 points by 082349872349872 73 days ago | 17 comments
A bunch of dead bats led to the death of more than 1k kids (washingtonpost.com)
A new study in the journal Science found the decline of bats in the United States had come at a deadly cost to humans.
Science, Health, Environment, Wildlife
6 points by howard941 77 days ago | 1 comments
Electrocuted Birds Are Bursting into Flames and Starting Wildfires (gizmodo.com)
Electrocuted, flaming bird carcasses are falling off of power lines and causing wildfires across the U.S.
Wildlife, Environment, Safety, Climate Change
16 points by rntn 77 days ago | 6 comments
The Largest Wetland Is Burning, and Rare Animals Are Dying (nytimes.com)
Environment, Climate Change, Wildlife, Conservation
8 points by thelastgallon 80 days ago | 1 comments
Here a Bee, There a Bee, Everywhere a Wild Bee (hakaimagazine.com)
Wildlife, Insects, Environment
72 points by Petiver 80 days ago | 63 comments
'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera (phys.org)
Wildlife, Arizona, Conservation, Endangered Species
183 points by wglb 94 days ago | 55 comments