AWI Quarterly Term Archive
Feature Article
IWC64: AWI Cries Foul over Abuse of Subsistence Hunt Quotas
Marine WildlifeThe 64th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), held in Panama City, Panama, represented a challenge for the Contracting Parties: to overcome the difficulties that led to the disruption of...
Listening to Commerson’s Dolphins
Marine WildlifeIn recent years, there has been a considerable increase in the use of passive acoustic techniques to study cetaceans. One of the main advantages of listening over watching is that...
Conference Explores Promising Prospects for Wildlife Fertility Control
Equines, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Wild Horse Symposium and 7th International Conference on Fertility Control in Wildlife was held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, from August 29 to September 1. Researchers from around the world discussed...
Detecting Hellbenders Using eDNA in Samples of Stream Water
Terrestrial WildlifeThe eastern hellbender is a large, aquatic salamander that historically occurred throughout much of the eastern United States. Research has suggested that once abundant hellbenders, which eat crayfish and live...
Failing the American Lion
Terrestrial WildlifeIntroductionMountain lions were once acknowledged as great hunters and revered as symbols of bravery and strength. But as Europeans settled across the continent, the indigenous peoples’ respect was replaced with...
Wild Burros; Tough Survivors Face Harsh Landscape and Hostile Management
Equines, Terrestrial WildlifeIt's easy to fall in love with Bernadette, Valerie and Wee Willy, three wild burros, adopted earlier this year from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Their charismatic personalities and...
Giving Animals in Research a (Day) Break with Gradual Lighting Systems
Animals in LaboratoriesFor animals in the wild, days and nights are not delineated via a flick of the switch on the wall. Rather, dawn brings on a gradual waxing of the light,...
From Carolina to the Catskills, AWA Pig Farmers find Greener Pastures
Farmed AnimalsRaising pigs according to the industrial farming model is a study in homogeny. In industry parlance, “quality control” means having all the same pigs fed all the same food while...
Alberta Nora “Binki” Thompson, Defender of Whales
Marine WildlifeThere she was, in her 70s and arthritic, in the remote Baja, Mexico desert, camping out in the wilderness. It was by sheer willpower that Mrs. Thompson got into the...
Wildlife Litter Boxes? An Investigation on the Role Latrines Play in the Social Ecology of Bobcats
Terrestrial WildlifeRapid assessment of wild animal population abundance is problematic, particularly for rare, cryptic felid species. However, estimates of population abundance are critical for effectively targeting conservation and management actions. Traditional...