Tag: wildlife
Pelicans are starving. We might know why
There’s a broken link in the food chain of California’s brown pelicans, adding a sad chapter to one of conservation’s most striking success stories.Emaciated...
Elusive surfboard-stealing Otter 841 back in Santa Cruz, up to her...
Surfer Karl Anderle knew just whom he was dealing with Saturday in Santa Cruz when he turned around and saw a large adult sea...
Rare whale sighted off Point Reyes coast
In an extraordinary sighting, a critically endangered right whale was spotted off the Marin County coast on Friday, thrilling scientists.One of the rarest whales...
Is a termite treatment on an Oakland home also killing ants,...
DEAR JOAN: We had our house treated for termites five years ago with Termidor. It was put in the ground around the house and in...
A strange fungus could transform emerging cicadas into ‘saltshakers of death,’...
By Kate Golembiewski | CNN
This spring, billions of cicadas will emerge after more than a decade underground, ready to climb into the trees and...
San Jose woman wants to keep the squirrels in her yard,...
DEAR JOAN: How can we get rid of rats without also harming the squirrels that visit our yard?My next-door neighbors and I have lemon trees....
