AWI Quarterly Term Archive
Quick Read
Exotic Animal Smugglers Busted
Terrestrial WildlifeThough they’re usually intervening in illegal immigrant and drug trafficking schemes, Chilean officials put the kibosh on a massive illicit shipment of 427 exotic animals en route from Peru to...
Greyhounds Beat the Odds
Companion AnimalsThis past election season resulted in a decisive victory for Massachusetts’s greyhounds, and set a promising precedent for their brethren across the country. Despite the state’s significant racetrack presence, Massachusetts...
Frogs Identify Predators Before Hatching
Terrestrial WildlifeFight or flight. They’re basic animal responses once considered purely instinctual—or perhaps strictly a natural learning process—but they may actually be a combination of the two. According to www.livescience.com, an experiment...
Parrot Saves Choking Baby
Companion AnimalsTo those who think parrots are only capable of mindless mimicry, Willie is certainly no bird brain. According to CBS4 in Denver, the parrot’s owner, Meagan, was babysitting two-year-old Hannah...
Glaring Deficiencies in GAO Report on Wild Horse and Burro Program
Terrestrial WildlifeWith the fate of thousands of America’s wild horses and burros at risk, there was palpable optimism when the Government Accountability Office (GAO) announced that it would be issuing a...
Pit Bull Takes Bullet for Family
Companion Animals“If it wasn’t for his hard head, he wouldn’t be here,” the vet told Roberta Trawick, owner of the lifesaving pit bull, D-Boy. Trawick was sitting on the couch of...
Hordes of Pelicans Mysteriously Dying
Terrestrial WildlifeScientists and wildlife conservationists are baffled by the sudden malaise plaguing hundreds of pelicans along the California coast this winter. Californians have been calling rescue centers constantly, having found disoriented,...
A Broken Food Chain
Farmed AnimalsAccording to a recent report published by the University of British Columbia in Canada, 90 percent of the global small fish catch—which includes anchovies, sardines and mackerel—is processed into fish...
Pygmy Tarsiers Back from “Extinction”
Terrestrial WildlifeBelieved to be extinct, one of the world’s smallest and rarest primates had not been seen alive since 1921. But an Indonesian scientist expedition in 2000 proved decades of assumptions...
A Clear Vote Against Intensive Confinement of Farm Animals
Farmed AnimalsThe California referendum to prohibit housing sows in gestation crates, hens in battery cages, and veal calves in crates by 2015 passed in November by a nearly two-to-one margin. AWI...