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In the late 1990s San Miguel Island held 15 foxes, down from about 450; after 44 golden eagles were relocated and 226 captive-bred foxes returned, the island counted roughly 322 in 2024

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (388+ words) Fifteen foxes. That was the count on San Miguel Island at the end of the 1990s, on an island that had carried about 450 of them, a population so small that biologists could have known every animal by name and very nearly…...

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Researchers taught 18 pet parrots to ring a bell and select another bird???s picture on a touchscreen to request a video call. During 147 bird-initiated calls, the parrots developed preferred partners and preened, sang and played toward the screen??? while caregi

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1452+ words) Fifteen of the 18 recruited parrots made 147 voluntary calls after training. The behavior was real, but preferred partners and newly learned skills require careful reading. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit A parrot ringing a…...

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In the early 1970s, volunteers and county crews sank up to 2 million tires off Fort Lauderdale to build a reef — broken straps, corroding clips and storms scattered them, and cleanup crews have since hauled more than 600,000 back up

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (582+ words) What began as an environmental triumph—dumping millions of tires to build an artificial reef—became one of the ocean's most stubborn cleanup nightmares. Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit On 22 April 1972, a Goodyear blimp hung over the water off Fort…...