A good friend of mine works at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida and she told me that a rare animal came into the clinic recently — an Everglades mink.
There are three populations of minks in Florida. The first population is the Everglades mink, which lives in South Florida and is listed as a threatened species, [...]
Florida has a lot of popular and often heard about endangered species: Manatees, panthers and sea turtles, to name a few. But endangered wood rats don’t sound so glamorous.
(Though they are quite cute.)
I discovered them when I was researching Burmese pythons, because apparently the invasive snakes eat the woodrats.
They’re called Key Largo woodrats, and at [...]
It’s like a horror movie plot. A devastating storm hits and huge snakes that squeeze their prey to death are escape into a jungle. They start reproducing, and soon, the population spirals out of control.
In Florida’s Everglades, it’s actually happening. No one knows exactly how many Burmese pythons there are out there in the swamp, [...]
Alligators kind of remind me of dinosaurs. They look prehistoric, spines up and down their backs, huge jaws, and a long, thick tail.
I already posted about places to see them in captivity and places to see them in the wild. Now I’ll give you some information about them.
Appearance: This might seem to be an obvious [...]
Just before 2009’s end, another endangered Florida panther was hit by a car. It was a four-year-old female.
Fish and Wildlife send out an email about the death just before New Years, and it got me thinking about the creatures.
There’s something fascinating about panthers, maybe because they’re so rare. There are only about 100 of them [...]
