African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus): a wild canine native to sub-Saharan Africa. AKA: African painted dog or African hunting dog Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Carnivora Family: | Canidae ...
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NATURE returns for its 41st Season, featuring new documentaries about the Great East African Migration, wild dogs, woodpeckers, ocelots, shorebirds and more. The WNET Group’s Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning series ...
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It’s that time of the summer. Our screens are filled with a blitz of exploitative and fear-inducing programming about one of the ocean’s top predators. Here’s the thing. I grew up watching the film Jaws. It’s ...
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Shark and ray species (over 1,200 species globally) are literally and figuratively in hot water—their populations are declining and some of their body parts are among the most valuable in the global seafood trade, ...
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This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). In honor of LGBTQ+ Pride month, Nature and WCS are sharing stories of nature and conservation from members of these communities. As the Director ...
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