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Footage shows a gigantic, adult, 1,653-pound great white shark getting tagged for research last month. The 13-foot, 9-inch predator, Contender, was tagged on Jan. 17 near the Florida-Georgia ...
(Reuters) -After millions of people were ordered to flee along Florida's Gulf Coast, the African elephants, Caribbean flamingos, pygmy hippos and about 1,000 other animals were riding out the ...
Despite Florida's tally of unprovoked bites, the only U.S. death in a shark attack last year happened in Hawaii when surfer Tamayo Perry was killed off the island of Oahu. The species of shark ...
It is the most economically important hunting mammal in all of North America, and is one of the major prey animals of the Florida panther. There were only about 20,000 deer in Florida during the late 1930s, and the species was almost extinct in South Florida due to a campaign to eliminate tick-borne diseases. Hunt restraining measures and ...
Florida is now known as the invasive species capital of the United States or the World. [44] [45] Six Red deer were released on Buck Island Breeding Ranch in Highlands County in 1967 or 1968. The herd increased to less than 30 animals. In 1993, 10 animals were seen in the area, and small numbers have been sighted subsequently in the same area. [46]
The animal is the namesake of South Florida's hockey team, and the team has donated to the preservation of panther habitats. In 2023 the Florida panther was featured on a United States Postal Service forever stamp as part of the Endangered Species set, based on a photograph from Joel Sartore's Photo Ark.
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The shelters on the west coast are transferring animals in their care to make room for animals displaced by the hurricane