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Scientist under fire for photo with great white shark at Aptos beach

The Mercury News 19 Jun 2018

APTOS — Concerned the ocean would reclaim the very dead and very heavy juvenile great white shark before it could be carted off to a research lab, one marine biologist laid down next to the fearsome fish while another snapped a picture to document its size ... The marine biologist who captured the moment, Giancarlo Thomae, defended his colleague in a phone interview Monday....

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Woman poses next to a great white shark. It was science, not a 'selfie,' biologist says

The Herald-Sun 19 Jun 2018

A marine biologist investigating the body of a great white shark washed up Sunday on a California beach didn’t think twice about asking a colleague to pose next to the carcass ... But Thomae wasn’t prepared for what happened when TV station KSBW posted the photo on Facebook — readers called the photo disrespectful ... “As a biologist and a nature-lover, it makes me happy that people care so much about wildlife,” Thomae said ... SHARE. COPY LINK ... ....

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Marine biologist in Ventnor jumps in when fishermen catch shark

Atlantic City 19 Jun 2018

VENTNOR — Marine biologist Michele Grimaldi went to the International Surfing Day celebration at the Ventnor Pier June 16 hoping to enjoy the event. She didn’t expect to put her expertise to work ... The fisherman said he was confident he knew how to properly release the shark, but Grimaldi, who works as a marine biologist in Hawaii, stepped in anyway to make sure and pushed for it to be done quickly ... g… ... ....

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State official: 9-foot alligator found in private pond in Decatur

Decatur Daily 19 Jun 2018

In a report released Monday afternoon, Jud Easterwood, a supervisory wildlife biologist for the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, said the American alligator “posed a safety hazard.”. Through a spokeswoman, Easterwood said in his report a private individual called the agency Saturday afternoon ... “Because we are so close to the Tennessee River, we get sightings of alligators quite often,” the biologist said ... ....

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A pack of wolves is about to save this national park

Popular Science 19 Jun 2018

Only two wolves remain on Isle Royale ... Biologists project the moose population could double in the next five years barring intervention, from Michigan Technological University in May ... Biologists have studied the interwoven rise and fall of the moose and wolf populations on Isle Royale for the last sixty years ... With tracks visible in the snow and less tree cover to block animals from view, biologists can count moose and wolf numbers ... ....

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Records: Trump Tower failed to follow fish protection rules

Houston Chronicle 19 Jun 2018

CHICAGO — The Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago is one of the largest users of water from the Chicago River, but records show it has never followed state rules governing the protection of the river's fish ... Nearly 30 types of fish have been found in the river during the past four years, according to federal and state biologists ... ....

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Looking for signs of global warming? It's all around you

Sacramento Bee 19 Jun 2018

More than 40 years ago, the University of Maryland biologist started studying when wildflowers, birds, bees and butterflies first appeared each spring on this mountain....

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Great white sharks dive deep into warm-water whirlpools in the Atlantic

PhysOrg 19 Jun 2018

It's always good to know where great white sharks are likely to be swimming. That's true if you're a nervous beachgoer, a fishing boat trying to avoid illegal bycatch, or a marine biologist hoping to conserve this vulnerable species ... ....

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Signs of global warming are all around

Wtop 19 Jun 2018

GOTHIC, Colo ... Nature itself is too ... It’s been 30 years since much of the world learned that global warming had arrived ... One biologist says nature is extremely sensitive to temperature and that dramatic changes are happening right in front of us ... All rights reserved ... ....

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Eaglet moved to rehab center after falling from nest

East Bay Times 19 Jun 2018

MILPITAS — An attempt to place a fallen eaglet back in a tree on Monday was unsuccessful, and the young raptor will be taken to a rehabilitation facility to be evaluated and cared for, an official said Monday evening. Byron Jones, a wildlife officer with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said he and a wildlife biologist captured the eaglet, and tried to place it on a branch about 30 feet in the air ... ....

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Apple's HyperCard was inspired by an acid trip

Boing Boing 19 Jun 2018

Pioneering engineer Bill Atkinson was the lead designer/developer of the Apple Lisa graphical user interface, creator of MacPaint and QuickDraw, and part of the original team that developed the Apple Macintosh ... From Mondo 2000 . ... Poets, artists, musicians, physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians, and economists all have separate pools of knowledge, but are hindered from sharing and finding the deeper connections... Image....

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Despite winter exodus, elk pour through migration bottleneck

Billings Gazette 19 Jun 2018

JACKSON, Wyo. — The elk had returned, their passage spelled out in the drying mud along a Red Hills game trail that wildlife biologist Aly Courtemanch followed uphill ... "There's definitely been an elk through here since the storm last night," she said ... At 5.14 a.m., the same morning, a wolf had passed through ... "It's not good from a disease perspective and a (National Elk Refuge) feeding perspective," the biologist said ... ....

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Now, plan for ‘easier’ tiger spotting at Corbett

Hindustan Times 19 Jun 2018

Do not be disappointed if you have had no luck with spotting a Royal Bengal Tiger in the wilderness of Corbett Tiger Reserve. If things go according to plan, tourists could enjoy tiger safari in the reserve by next year ... It has 240 tigers, according to the All India Tiger Estimation of 2015 ... K Ullas Karanth, noted wildlife biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, does not support the safari culture in the country ... ....

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