How fast does a white-tailed deer run? Candid Animal Cam spots fawns
by Romina Castagnino on 9 March 2021
Every Tuesday, Mongabay brings you a new episode of Candid Animal Cam, our show featuring animals caught on camera traps around the world and hosted by Romi Castagnino, our writer and conservation scientist.
Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the smallest members of the North American deer family: the white-tailed deer.
A white-tailed deer (
Odocoileus virginianus) is a medium-sized mammal that lives in all of the Americas, from Canada to Peru and Bolivia in the south. It gets its name from the white hair on the underside of the tail. When the deer senses danger, it raises its tail showing the white patch. This is called ‘flagging’. Whitetails are polygynous, and during the mating season bucks fight each other for the right to mate with the does in the area. As
Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting one of the most iconic African animals: the zebra. The plains zebra (Equus quagga), also known as the common zebra, is one of the three species of zebra that exist in Africa. […]
What does a great argus pheasant sound like? Candid Animal Cam listens to birds
by Romina Castagnino on 26 January 2021
Every Tuesday, Mongabay brings you a new episode of Candid Animal Cam, our show featuring animals caught on camera traps around the world and hosted by Romi Castagnino, our writer and conservation scientist.
Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting one of the world’s largest pheasants: the great Argus pheasant.
The great Argus pheasant (
Argusianus argus) lives in the tropical rainforests of the islands of Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay peninsula. It is well known for its characteristic plumage and behavior. Males have very long tail feathers; the two central ones grow to approximately 1.5 m nearly three-quarters of the bird’s total length. Their secondary wing feathers are decorated with large eyespot markings. Actually, Carl Linnaeus gave the great Ar
How endangered are monk seals? Candid Animal Cam meets these underwater mammals by Romina Castagnino on 12 January 2021
Every Tuesday, Mongabay brings you a new episode of Candid Animal Cam, our show featuring animals caught on camera traps around the world and hosted by Romi Castagnino, our writer and conservation scientist.
Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting one of the most endangered seal species in the world: the Mediterranean monk seal.
Mediterranean monk seals (
Monachus monachus) are coastal marine mammals that were once found across the Mediterranean and in parts of the eastern Atlantic and the Black Sea. Now the seals are scattered in three or four isolated populations across Mauritania in Africa, the Portuguese island of Madeira, and the Greek and Turkish coastlines. In total, there are only 350 to 450 mature Mediterranean monk seals left in the wild. The vi
Newsletter 2020-12-10
John C. Cannon [12/10/2020]
– The Sicangu Lakota Oyate, the Native nation living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota, released 100 American bison onto part of an 11,300-hectare (28,000-acre) pasture.
– The project is a collaboration between the Sicangu Oyate’s economic arm, REDCO, the U.S. Department of the Interior, and WWF.
– Over the next five years, the leaders of the Wolakota Buffalo Range project hope to expand the herd to 1,500 buffalo, which would make it the largest owned by a Native nation.
Mike Gaworecki [12/09/2020]
– On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast we look at how the largest and most biodiverse tropical savanna on Earth, Brazil’s Cerrado, may finally be getting the conservation attention it needs.