Since some of us drive country roads after dark, our travels may take us through many rural areas. This offers us the opportunity to observe, sometimes very briefly, several types of nocturnal ...
Darkness had fallen in the Vail Valley. As I watched the last light fade on the summit of Bald Mountain, I heard crashing below my porch. Was it the massive black bear that had been frequenting the ...
Darkness had fallen in the Vail Valley. As I watched the last light fade on the summit of Bald Mountain, I heard crashing below my porch. Was it the massive black bear that had been frequenting the ...
The nighttime gathering of alligators offered researchers a rare chance to view a congregation of predators exhibiting eyeshine in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp. NASA Instagram photo A scene straight out ...
Cats are weird. Sometimes they are funny weird. Sometimes they’re annoying weird. And once in a while, they are scary weird. Like attempting-a-home-invasion-while-appearing-demonically-possessed weird ...
Not nearly the size of a mountain lion, a wildcat (or bobcat) is still a formidable critter. It can weigh 30 pounds and be 40 inches in length, inclusive of the abbreviated tail. They are not uncommon ...
The eyes of a wary cat or dog on the roadside at night can reflect the light of oncoming cars, often with startling vividness. That’s called eyeshine. At the back of the animal’s eye is a special ...