Moles Most of mammals we see where I live Southeast Texas would be considered of the common garden variety. They are certainly not weird in any way. Whitetail deer, raccoons, opossums and squirrels are the most frequently seen creatures that thrive in
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Copperheads Or Not During this past spring I received three emails showing images of dead snakes. Each snake appeared well and truly hammered, limp and broken and bloody. One was a hognose snake. One was a broad-banded water snake. One
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Jaws Comeback A 12.5 foot great white shark named Hilton has turned up in the Gulf of Mexico and is swimming west from the the Florida Panhandle according to an article at The Huffington Post. The shark, tagged by research
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Habitat For Ducks Concern for the habitat that supports about 80 percent of the world’s redhead ducks has led Ducks Unlimited de México (DUMAC) and the University of Tamaulipas’ (UT) Institute of Applied Ecology to launch a partnership to better
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Gar The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) unveiled a new website April 13 to educate and inform Texans about alligator gar – the largest freshwater fish in Texas and one of the largest freshwater fishes in North America. The
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Swift Foxes Texas outdoors lovers are likely familiar with the red and gray foxes but there is another species. Swift foxes are a small variety indigenous to western Texas and the Panhandle that is facing some serious challenges. According to
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The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats, detected for the first time in Texas in early 2017 in the Panhandle, has now spread into Central Texas. Though no bat deaths have been attributed to WNS in Texas, the
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Scariest Animals This week, I thought it would be fun to check out some of the scariest animals. You know the kind you would least want to encounter on a cool, spring night when the wind is howling and the
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Javelina Problems The javelina (collared peccary) is a game animal in Texas and it has lost 2/3 of its native range in 70 years. This species is a denizen of the arid regions of Texas. At one time they roamed from the
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Officials with the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department will be studying a mountain lion (cougar) road killed by a high school student north of Mineral Wells. According to a story at KHOU.Com a Graford High School student was driving home from
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Lynx Conspiracy? Did a lynx stocking occur in the Pinewoods of East Texas? In the early 1980s, officials with the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) released Canada lynx into the Pineywoods region. I first heard of these stockings taking
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Not A Whale But A Shark The whale shark is one of the most unique creatures in the ocean and they are present on the Texas coast. Here are five facts you probably did not about about these under appreciated
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Agkistrodon Piscivorus Agkistrodon piscivorus is a heck of a name isn’t it? No wonder we call it by its common name the cottonmouth. Fishing and outdoor activities are fast upon us as spring creeps up in Texas so too are
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Feral Hog Injury This feral hog was captured on trail camera in Newton County, TX and shows a swollen leg. Could this have been caused by a snake bite or some other injury? What are your thoughts? Feral hogs-wounded or
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In 2008, I received a photo of a porcupine road-killed at Sabine Pass, TX. Porcupine Find That photo shocked many people because they (along with yours truly) did not realize we had porcupines in my native Southeast Texas. Back in 2012, I heard about someone
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I’m a little envious of Capt. Scott Fitzgerald. The guide at Madfish Charters was fishing for amberjack this spring about 8.5 miles off the coast of Panama City Florida when he felt a big bump in his boat according to a
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Monster Hogs Tales of gigantic, long-tusked monster hogs prowling the woods of Texas and the American South have been told around the campfire for years. Now game camera and cell phone technology are showing many of these stories to be
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“Did you know there are giant catfish below the Toledo Bend dam?” That was the question posed to me recently at one of my local speaking engagements. “And they are so big divers are afraid to go down there and
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Just the mention of Black Panthers will get you an enormous and varied bag full of responses from just about everyone from the guy next door to your great grandmother. First things first, there has never been a recorded melanistic
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The Gulf of Mexico is a wild and interesting place. Teeming with life, it is a place of great inspiration and is also the source of occupation for many people in the fishing, shrimping and petrochemical industries. Although seldom mentioned
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