PERQUIMANS COUNTY, N.C. (WAVY) – A 15-year-old has died following a hunting accident Friday morning in Perquimans County.
According to the NC Wildlife Resources Commission Lieutenant John Beardsley, the call for the accident came in around 8:30 a.m. off Hickory Cross Road. Officials say two teens, a 17-year-old and a 15-year-old, were turkey hunting in the area.
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The 17-year-old was standing up the look at turkeys across the field when he heard his hunting partner’s gun go off next to him. He then turned to see that the 15-year-old teen has been shot.
Officials say an investigation revealed that the 15-year-old was attempting to stand up when his gun went off, which resulted in the victim dying.
Perquimans County Schools Superintendent Dr. Tanya Turner…
The U.S. State of Montana’s legislature has recently proposed a litany of extreme anti-wildlife bills despite widespread and diverse opposition.
Grizzly bears are protected under the federal Endangered Species Act, but Montana lawmakers and Gov. Greg Gianforte are pushing measures that would issue grizzly bear kill permits to ranchers using public lands, for example.
The state has also opened up unlimited wolf hunting along Yellowstone National Park’s border, despite the fact that those wolves spend 96% of their time in the park.
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The business operator of a slaughterhouse on the outskirts of Chester and six men who worked there have been sentenced for animal welfare offences including, in some cases, causing avoidable pain, distress or suffering to animals.
G and GB Hewitt Ltd operates a slaughterhouse at The Abattoir, Huxley, where cattle and sheep are slaughtered.
In addition to the company itself, the defendants, all slaughtermen, are:
Mark Lee Hewitt, 34 from Huxley
Stephen Mayren, 66, of Poulton-le-Fylde in Lancashire
Joseph Anthony Arden, 66, from Nantwich.
Matthew David Arden, 32 from Whitchurch.
Gerald Mark Hewitt, 59, from Tarporley.
Paul May, 49, from Whitchurch.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) monitors and enforces animal welfare at approved slaughterhouses in England and Wales by ensuring they are compliant with all specific requirements in hygiene and animal welfare legislation.
Legislation is in place to protect the welfare of animals at the time…
While it has been established that marine heat waves are warming our oceans and causing great disruptions to marine ecosystems, new research has broadened our understanding of these occurrences.
The study, led by researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows that marine heat waves do, in fact, happen at the seafloor.
While marine heat waves have been studied at the surface level for more than a decade, this is the first time we’ve had the ability to explore how they affect deeper waters. The NOAA-led team was able to do so using observations and computer models to create the first broad evaluation of deep sea heat waves in waters surrounding North America.
The research team, which also included scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, found that on the continental shelves of North America, deep sea heat waves tend to last longer than those that occur on the surface. Surface level and bottom marine heat waves can occur simultaneously in the same place, especially in shallower areas. Bottom marine heat waves, however, can happen without displaying warming at the surface, which means their impacts could come without warning.
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These heat waves have drastic and devastating effects on the health of our ocean ecosystems, as they can disrupt the behaviors and productivity of ocean inhabitants of all sizes. This is why studying heat waves is so important.
Marine heat waves have experienced an estimated 50% increase in frequency in the past decade, according to the study, largely due to the fact that our oceans have absorbed about 90% of our planet’s excess heat stemming from global warming.
“We know that early recognition of marine heat waves is needed for proactive management of the coastal ocean,” said Michael Jacox, one of the study’s co-authors and a research oceanographer at NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center and the Physical Sciences Laboratory. “Now it’s clear that we need to pay closer attention to the ocean bottom, where some of the most valuable species live and can experience heat waves quite different from those on the surface.”
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The International Fund for Animal Welfare says nine dolphins were stranded over a two-day period on Cape Cod and that two of them had to be relocated after they ended up swimming close to shore.
According to the IFAW, its marine mammal rescue team responded to Wellfleet Harbor on Monday after the nine Atlantic white-sided dolphins were reported swimming in shallow waters during the early afternoon.
One of the nine dolphins swam off into deep water, but the remaining eight were stranded and needed to be rescued. The eight dolphins received a health assessment and treatment after they were rescued and released to deeper waters.
On Tuesday, the IFAW said one of the eight stranded dolphins that was released on Monday was stranded early in the morning in Provincetown. The rescue team responded, but the dolphin had refloated. The team then used kayaks to herd the dolphin into an area where they could assess and treat it before it was released to safer waters.
While the IFAW rescue team was helping the stranded dolphin in Provincetown, another one of the dolphins that was stranded in Wellfleet on Monday was seen swimming between the boat slips in Barnstable Harbor on Tuesday. Members of the team used kayaks to herd that dolphin to an area where it could be extracted so that it could be assessed and treated.
At the same team, a second rescue team was responding to reports of a dolphin that was seen swimming close to shore near the Wellfleet Pier at midday Tuesday. The IFAW said that the dolphin is likely the one that did not end up getting stranded in Wellfleet on Monday. The team used kayaks to herd the dolphin close to shore, which allowed staff to extract the animal for assessment and treatment.
The two dolphins that were rescued in Barnstable and Wellfleet on Tuesday were brought together and rode in the IFAW’s custom-built mobile dolphin rescue vehicle to Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown, where they were released early Tuesday evening.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is recommending a few changes to upland game hunting and waterfowl hunting — including making it illegal to harvest trumpeter swans — as well as changes to a few other items. The DWR is seeking the public’s feedback on the proposals online and at the upcoming public meetings.
In 2019, swan regulations changed to expand the hunting boundaries in Box Elder County and to increase the total number of swan permits offered in Utah. Since that change, the DWR has hadto close the swan hunting season early for the last four years, due to the federal quota of trumpeter swans being met.
Utah is one of only nine states in the U.S. that allows hunting for swans. Due to the low population size of trumpeter swans in the Greater Yellowstone area, the U.S…
Chimpanzees are known to produce a number of different vocalizations and combine these calls into larger sequences. Credit: Adrian Soldati
A key feature of human language is our ability to combine words into larger compositional phrases, where the meaning of the whole is related to the meaning of the parts. Where this ability came from or how it evolved, however, is less clear.
Chimpanzees, our closest-living relative, are known to produce a number of different vocalizations to manage their social and ecological lives and, under some circumstances, combine these calls into larger sequences. By conducting careful, controlled experiments withwild chimpanzeesin Uganda, researchers from the University of Zurich (UZH) showed that these combinations are understood by chimpanzees.
Chimpanzees react most strongly to call combinations
“Chimpanzees produce ‘alarm-huus’ when surprised and ‘waa-barks’ when potentially recruiting conspecifics during aggression or hunting,” says Maël Leroux, a…
A grizzly bear that appeared to have been killed was found near Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, prompting an investigation from federal officials.
Photographer Amy Gerber spotted the bear along North Fork Highway early Monday near the city of Cody, and her photos of the dead animalwent viral on Facebook.One post received more than 1,000 shares and hundreds of comments, mainly from people angered that the bear was possibly killed. Images of the bear appear to show a bloody and disfigured face.
A representative for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service confirmed to CBS News they are investigating the incident, saying “due to the nature of ongoing investigations we are unable to comment further at this time.”
There was speculation a bear had been hit by a car in the area, according to theCowboy…
Scientists are alarmed as ocean surface temperatures have continuously set new record-breaking highs over the last month. According todata analyzedby the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, daily ocean surface temperatures breached historical record highs since at least 1982 in April. That means we are in uncharted territory as global warming continues to take its toll with extreme weather events becoming more common by the year — and scientists are clearly shaken by the spiking temperatures. “This is getting ridiculous,” physicist and climate change expert Rober Rohdetweeted. “For the last month [the daily index] has been continuously reading higher than in any previous year and still shows no sign of settling.”
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But others argued such a rise should be expected at this point. “While it is comforting…
The combination of El Niño and the long-term trend of global warming could produce new record-setting global temperatures and exacerbate the impacts of climate change.
Floodwaters inundate farmland in the re-emerging Tulare Lake, in California’s Central Valley, on April 26.Mario Tama / Getty Images file
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As ocean surface temperatures soar to record highs, the World Meteorological Organization said Wednesday it expects a shift toward El Niño by this fall, which could shake up weather patterns and trigger more extreme weather events in the U.S. and other parts of the world.
Forecasters expect the temporary El Niño pattern to alter rainfall patterns, elevate average air temperatures and contribute to more intense storm systems. The El Niño pattern, which is a temporary and natural climate…
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