NATURE's Trail of the Cougar profiles the "king cat" and its struggle for survival. Hunted almost to extinction over the past three centuries, cougars are making a comeback today, with some 30,000 living in the wilds of North and South America. But still they face ...
One minute, David Parker was stooped under a rock ledge seeking shelter from a drenching rain. The next, the 61-year old Canadian was rolling in a muddy roadside ditch, his jaw smashed, fighting for his life against a 100-pound cougar eager for a meal. Cougar ...
It was perhaps the saddest photograph Brian Call had ever taken. But it may help the Florida panther reach a happy ending in its struggle for survival. Brian Call took this photo of a cougar that was struck by a car. In the spring of ...
The Reptiles: Alligators and Crocodiles looks at the ultimate predators at the margins of the water and the land. Some amuse us, others terrify us. They slither, swim, walk and crawl, leap and lunge, and some spend their entire lives contained within a shell. Their ...
It was an evening she'll never forget. Tammy Woehle was jogging down a Florida freshwater beach with her dog when she suddenly found herself in the jaws of an alligator. "It just happened so fast," the 22-year-old later told reporters about the 2001 incident. "He ...
Got a 'gator in the garden, and don't want him there? Then call Todd Hardwick. Hardwick, 40, is one of Florida's three dozen licensed alligator trappers. When worried citizens call state officials to report a nuisance alligator, the state calls on experienced trappers like Hardwick ...
As a young boy, Canadian sculptor William Lishman wanted to be a military pilot. Vision problems grounded that dream, but he did eventually take up flying ultralight aircraft. And in 1988, he made ornithological and aviation history by leading a flock of 12 Canada geese ...
Whooping cranes learn survival lessons from human surrogate parents on NATURE's Flight School. At five-feet tall, with a wing span of nearly 8 feet, whooping cranes are among the largest and most beautiful birds of North America. But hunting and other forms of human encroachment ...
Of the 4,000 or so species of mammals, only a handful of animals have ever been thought to mate for life. This short list of animals includes among others: gibbon apes, wolves, coyotes, barn owls, bald eagles, gorillas and barn swallows. But as it turns ...
