Environment/Wildlife

A study from the University of California, Davis, provides new insight into the unique sex life of giraffes, their reproductive behavior, and how their anatomy supports that behavior.

Mountain lion mortality maps from UC Davis show that many cougars suffer similar fates as P-22 along California’s roads and highways.

A new perspective article from co-authors at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and Cornell University highlight the critical relationship between wildlife health and conservation.

Seven years of carefully planned habitat restoration on private land in the Mojave Desert have yielded hope for the persistence of the endangered Amargosa vole.

Scientists from the University of California, Davis created network-based models to prioritize novel and known viruses for their risk of zoonotic transmission, which is when infectious diseases pass between animals and humans.

While COVID-19 has been racing through much of the human population, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has also turned up in other mammals. This leads to many questions.

The California Raptor Center will be hosting its first in-person open house in nearly three years on Saturday May 7th from 9am-12pm.

Comstock's magazine features the lifesaving work of the Wildlife Disaster Network.

Un brote de sarna ha diezmado la población de vicuñas y guanacos en un parque nacional argentino creado para su conservación, según un estudio de la Administración de Parques Nacionales de Argentina y la Universidad de California en Davis. Los resultados, publicados en la revista PLOS ONE, sugieren que un grupo de llamas introducidas en cercanías del parque podrían haber sido el origen del brote. Se esperan consecuencias para las especies depredadoras y carroñeras locales.