Everyone agrees that coyotes — at least two of them — have recently been preying on the scores of feral cats that have lived for decades on the sprawling campus of Cal State Long Beach.
The dispute is over which animals should have to go.
University officials say the cats are attracting the coyotes, and it is [...]
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As The Times noted earlier this year, pinnipeds have a way of getting themselves into some unexpected places. Above, those are two elephant seals near San Simeon, just off California 1. In a story with the unbeatable headline “Where Blubber Meets the Road,” Catherine Saillant described how the elephant seals somehow worked their way onto [...]
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Researchers in California and New Hampshire report the first detailed characterization of the protein composition of the hard, fang-like jaws of a common marine worm. Their work could lead to the design of a new class of super-strong, lightweight materials for use as construction and repair materials for spacecraft, airplanes, and other applications.
In the [...]
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A dog that sniffed out survivors from under the rubble of New York’s World Trade Center after the 2001 terror strikes is to be cloned, the California-based firm conducting the procedure said.
Trakr, a German shepherd who lives with his owner James Symington in Los Angeles, was picked by BioArts International as the most [...]
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Critics pounced on the concept of part-time pooches during a City Council hearing yesterday, backing Boston’s proposed ban on pet rentals.
But the founder of Flex- Petz, a San Diego firm eyeing an expansion of its canine membership club to the Hub, bit in to those who are blasting her business.
“The strong objection to us comes [...]
Moe, a 42-year-old chimpanzee who grew up in suburbia until being forced to live in an animal sanctuary, was believed to be at large in a Southern California forest today after escaping from his cage.
Animal handlers were combing the San Bernardino National Forest about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
“We think he may be hunkered [...]
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There’s a chimp on the loose in San Bernardino County.
County animal control staff and volunteers were fanning out Saturday across a densely forested area near the town of Devore in search of Moe the chimpanzee.
A friend of Moe’s owners says the chimp escaped Friday from his cage at an animal sanctuary near the [...]
Plans to re-establish the habitat for sea birds and other native species on San Nicholas Island should not require the hunting down and killing feral cats because a more humane alternative is available, according to a statement released today by Best Friends Animal Society.
An environmental assessment by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service´s Office [...]
Scientists, reporting in the current issue of the online journal Marine Drugs, state that an increase of epileptic seizures and behavioral abnormalities in California sea lions can result from low-dose exposure to domoic acid as a fetus. The findings follow an analysis earlier this year led by Frances Gulland of the California Marine Mammal Center [...]
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