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It is apparently a myth that lemmings commit mass suicide by jumping of cliffs, according to wildlife biologists who have studied the rodents.

«Why don't you do something that helps people,» one wildlife biologist was asked at her church.

«Once the bear has his claws on your food,» says Jeff Keay, the park's wildlife biologist, «it's too late.»

Dr Matt Ellis, BASC's scientific advisor, said: «We were delighted to be able to sponsor the young scientist awards and recognise the talent and enthusiasm in the next generation of wildlife biologists.

Above, wildlife biologist Ron Lichtie checks the age of a buck at a deer registration station in West Salem.

Brian Underwood, a U.S. Geological Survey research wildlife biologist who teachers at SUNY ESF.

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: Terry Ettinger joins future wildlife biologists in learning how hard it is to obtain a key piece of information to properly manage wildlife.

The study, published today in the online journal PeerJ, will be available to federal and state wildlife agencies for their consideration to determine whether distinct geographic population segments of the coastal marten warrant state or federal listing as threatened or endangered, said Katie Moriarty, a certified wildlife biologist and lead co-author on the study.

That's the question that Miguel Ordeana, a wildlife biologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles who also does field work in Nicaragua, wanted to know.

«The public doesn't understand the industrial scale of this,» says wildlife biologist Craig Thompson.

Thomas is a wildlife biologist by training, but he now uses technology such as satellite remote sensing and software applications such as geographic information systems to model vector disease transmission.

From the bluebird painting propped against her office wall and the deer she mentions seeing outside her office window, Linda Lewis might be mistaken for a wildlife biologist at first glance.

The language of the Wilderness Act describes man as a «visitor who does not remain»; Jim and Holly Akenson, wildlife biologists with an exemption, live at the property year - round.

Today upwards of 1,600 gray wolves roam the six - state region, exceeding wildlife biologists» expectations by a factor of five.

With less food available, fewer young Adelie and chinstrap penguins alike survive to maturity, said the new study's lead author, wildlife biologist Wayne Trivelpiece of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Judging from aerial surveys, sporadic reports by hunters and ranchers, and signals from the few animals wearing radio collars, state wildlife biologists think there are now more than 500 wolves here.

Janies said, noting that the wildlife biologists and veterinary doctors who know and observe animal diseases often do not often belong to the same communication networks as physicians.

«Buddy» was the nickname given by wildlife biologist Amanda Shufelberger, who works for Sierra Pacific Industries, a lumber company.

However, wildlife biologists fear a new outbreak could appear at any time.

Nevertheless, wildlife biologists keep reporting tales of bird intelligence outside of the lab as well.

Cats should be kept indoors, says Joshua Cassidy, a wildlife biologist with the Monterey - based Friends of the Sea Otter.

He spent nearly a decade as a wildlife biologist in Arizona and has work published in Global Change Biology, Restoration Ecology, and Wetlands.

After an experienced trainer was pulled in and killed by an orca at SeaWorld, a wildlife biologist who studies the species explains how a killer whale's natural behavior might help shed light on what happened

Rolf Peterson, a wildlife biologist at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, says that because only the strongest and healthiest moose survived, his team had expected a decline in wolves last year.

To find out whether pesticides are taken up by amphibians even in relatively pristine areas, a team led by wildlife biologist Donald Sparling of the U.S. Geological Survey in Laurel, Maryland, tested Pacific treefrogs in several national parks.

In this week's issue of Science, a team led by Peres, now a wildlife biologist, has shown it for the first time.

For the American pika, found in mountain areas in 10 Western states, «spring creep» means not just hotter summers, but colder winters in some areas, said wildlife biologist Erik Beever.

(DeStefano and Stein shared a stage January 23 for a discussion of urban wildlife at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Mass.) Where the wily things are At the forefront of this research into coyote behavior is Stanley Gehrt, a wildlife biologist at The Ohio State University, who has studied coyote populations in the Chicago area for more than a decade.

Frank Thompson, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service in Columbia, Missouri, says of Winfree's work, «It's important to understand why cowbirds prefer certain habitats to breed in — and this is going to help do that.»

If we really want more moose, we should be shooting bears instead, says a Vermont wildlife biologist

It's clear that eliminating DDT as a common agricultural pesticide has had marked environmental benefits, according to Chandler Robbins, an 89 - year - old wildlife biologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland, who worked directly with Carson in the 1940s.

The forum brought together many of the world's top disease ecologists, wildlife biologists, immunologists, virologists, vaccinologists, epidemiologists, wildlife veterinarians and pathologists, and policy experts to explore whether it would be appropriate and feasible to develop approaches to canine distemper vaccination to protect at - risk wild carnivore populations.

«The strikes did not appear to be defensive, but were more likely were associated with aborted feeding behavior,» said USGS wildlife biologist and herpetologist Bob Reed, the lead author of the study.

Anthony Clevenger, a wildlife biologist in Calgary, Alberta, set out to study a notorious 35 - mile stretch of the Trans - Canada Highway known as The Meatmaker.

«The nene caught people's attention; it was somehow charismatic,» says Paul Banko, a wildlife biologist with the Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center.

«This information has broad implications for wildlife management,» says Michael Begier, a wildlife biologist with USDA in Washington, D.C., who advises airports about reducing bird strikes.

The project would include more than 980,000 acres of «bridge habitat,» or connections from one «clump» to another, said Sarah Reif, a wildlife biologist with Arizona Fish and Game.

Nicholas Soames, the junior agriculture minister, tells me that the Fraddam case, reported to the local ministry office on 8 June, was immediately investigated by a wildlife biologist from the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service.

Today, as a wildlife biologist for the National Forest Service and a presidential award winner, he travels the world studying the complex interactions that play out in ecological systems.

University of Washington wildlife biologist Laura Prugh.

«If we can predict when an outbreak is imminent, we can proceed with management actions such as anti-fungal baths that kill Bd,» said Kamoroff, who is now a wildlife biologist at Yosemite National Park.

Albertani's team also includes two collaborators from the U.S. Geological Survey, biological statistician Manuela Huso and wildlife biologist and eagle expert Todd Katzner.

Well before the third chapter of Mousy Cats and Sheepish Coyotes: The science of animal personalities (Beacon Press), wildlife biologist John Shivik will have convinced you otherwise.

After more than a decade of studying snowshoe hares in the Rocky Mountains, L. Scott Mills, a wildlife biologist at the University of Montana, Missoula, noticed that the animals were beginning to stick out more than usual.

Amanda Shufelberger is a wildlife biologist for Sierra Pacific Industries, which owns timberland in the Truckee area.

«The Department of Wildlife Conservation [DWC] has been transferring elephants for many years,» says Prithiviraj Fernando, a wildlife biologist at the Centre for Conservation and Research in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka, and the lead author of the new study.

Since that landmark launch in 1992, wildlife biologists have released nearly 200 condors that were born and raised in captivity, and they've prospered.

The results should help the government protect the rare bears, says wildlife biologist Tony Hamilton of the British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection in Victoria.

So Gabriel and his friend Mark Higley, a wildlife biologist at the Hoopa Tribal Forestry Department, began tagging along on raids, sometimes entering an illegal grow site while dangling, commando - style, from a rope attached to a police helicopter.

In fact, only a dozen people have been killed by cougars in the US over the past century, maintains wildlife biologist Paul Beier — and it is the cougar that is at risk.