Subject: Wildlife

• Life is Better Down Where It's Wetter

  February 5, 2009

• Zell Bites, DeGroot Writes

  February 26, 2008

• Are Slow Boats Bigger Threat for Grazing Sea Cows?

  Guess what, boaters? A researcher at Florida Atlantic University says that motoring slowly through designated manatee protection habitats may put the meandering sea cows at greater risk of getting hacked up by your boat's motor. Says Dr. Edmund Gerstein, the university's director of marine mammal behavioral research: "In turbid waters where there is no visibility, slow speeds actually exacerbate the risks of collisions by making these boats inaudible to manatee

  December 10, 2008

• Surf 'n' Safari

  May 13, 1999

• Who's Manateeing the Phones?

  June 24, 1999

• Best Hunting

  May 11, 2000

• Best Hunting

  May 17, 2001

• Best Fishing

  May 16, 2002

• Best Toy Store

  May 13, 2004

• Just Africa

  May 20, 2004

• Best Place to Birdwatch

  May 12, 2005

• Best Pet Store

  May 12, 2005

• Feelin' the Freak

  That Redline Frame of Mind 

  May 22, 2008

• When Animal Activists Attack

  Bitten on the set of a Rick Ross video, Mark McCarthy now squares off against animal activists.

  February 26, 2009

• Letters for July 3-9, 2008

  July 3, 2008

• Feed Me, Seymour

  May 29, 2008

• See Cows?

  Somebody Bad Stole the Manatees

  December 20, 2007

• Carnivorous Beasts Need Love Too

  Shark documentary takes a bite out of myths

  October 25, 2007

• You Be Buggin’

  September 27, 2007

• Fin be Gone

  Local entrepreneurs say they've perfected a sunblock with a twist: It repels sharks

  August 16, 2007

• I Only Have Jaws for You

  July 26, 2007

• Dance of the Penguin

  That whole talking animal genre? Let's be done with it.

  November 16, 2006

• Off the Leash

  In the exotic pet universe, it's all about whose is weirder than whose.

  November 2, 2006

• Reef Madness

  Thanks to the Delray-Boynton pipe, there's a nitrate-stoked party down there.

  August 10, 2006

• Miracle on Ice

  The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better

  July 14, 2005

• I Heart PvD Too

  August 18, 2005

• Attack of the Killer Weed

  Can a hardy little moth stop the fern that wants to eat the Everglades?

  June 23, 2005

• Animal Crackers

  In Madagascar, the wild things romp, then roam.

  May 26, 2005

• Artful Ornithology

  The Norton's "Birdspace" takes us to a sprightlier world

  July 1, 2004

• Bug Out

  Who are you calling a lepidopteran?

  July 31, 2003

• Big Top Guns

  The cats and cannons of the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus have come to town

  November 14, 2002

• Net Free

  A whimsical journey on the wings of a butterfly

  By Susan Eastman

  August 22, 2002

• For the Birds

  Should 2700 little sparrows be allowed to hold up the reclaiming of the Everglades?

  July 18, 2002

• Turtle Tryst

  Save the baby sea turtles!

  July 11, 2002

• Armed and Dangerous

  "Monsters of the Deep" features squids and sharks and dinosaurs -- oh, my!

  December 20, 2001

• Troubled Waters

  Big wave-riding among the sharks of New Smyrna Beach -- the calm before NYC's storm

  September 20, 2001

• Aardvark Aadventures

  Arthur: A Live Adventure

  May 3, 2001

• Deepest, Darkest... Florida?

  Lion Country Safari

  May 18, 2000

• Declarations of Independents

  Forget strip malls, condos, and highways. Loxahatchee Groves is a place of dirt roads, wild pets, and eccentric residents.

  March 30, 2000

• Rub-a-Dub-Dub, It's a Manatee Tub

  Manatee Viewing Area

  January 13, 2000

• Beetlemania

  Insect Adventure

  August 19, 1999

• Flipped Out Over Flipper

  Dolphin activist RussRector will do just about anything to make swim-with-dolphins programs extinct

  July 17, 1999

• Flipped Out Over Flipper

  Dolphin activist Russ Rector will do just about anything to make swim-with-dolphins programs extinct

  July 8, 1999

• Free Willy. Seriously.

  August 6, 2009

• Whacking Day Comes to South Florida

   The day is upon us. Yes, every Simpsons fan knows Whacking Day started in 1924 as an excuse to beat up the Irish. And yes, technically Texas has had organized snake whacking for years. But now Florida's bravest most cunning snake-hatingest citizens will descend upon the swamps of this state in search of Burmese Pythons (and other "reptiles of concern"), in order to study learn from photograph kill them. Last month the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission began issuing permit

  August 27, 2009

• On the Hunt for Exotic Lizards in the Florida Everglades

  September 3, 2009

• Please Don't Eat the Pythons... or Freeze the Iguanas

  Our friend, the Burmese python.​Wild critters in Florida have many subtle ways of fighting the predations of man. And now that Florida has declared open season on invasive pythons, it's a good bet that the snakes are going to have the last word, even if it's spoken with forked tongue. Python meat is a delicacy that can sell to connoisseurs for up to $50 a pound. And it turns out our homegrown snakes are anything but edible. The St. Pete Times reports today that tissue samples from two dozen Bu

  September 8, 2009

• Man and Beast: State Bird Gets the Heave-Ho; Monkeys Go Home; Pythons Morph Into Man-Eaters

  The rock python's scary-sexy maw.​Amnesty Day is coming up on October 3, but that's amnesty for you, not for our scaly friends. Owners of exotic reptiles may turn in their anacondas at Gatorland in Orlando, no questions asked. It's time for Spot the reticulated python to find a new home, if he survives the three-hour drive in a sweltering car. Rocky the African rock python receives permanent sanctuary -- and not in your neighbor's garden.  Those rock pythons are becoming an issue, by the

  September 15, 2009

• PETA Fretting Over Humane Deaths for Giant Snakes

  PETA says: Stun and decapitate​Florida Fish and Wildlife has yet to respond to a July 30th letter from Lori Kettler, senior counsel for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), concerning humane death for Florida's thousands of Burmese pythons. Tori Perry, senior cruelty caseworker at PETA, told the Juice today that the guidelines for hunters going after the giant snakes, as posted on FFW's website, are too vague.Perry says PETA would like to see Florida Fish and Wildlife update its

  October 16, 2009

• Dolphin Experts Weigh In; Any Gorilla-Killers in Lake Worth Mayoral Race?

  Dr. Rene Varela​ The local community of marine mammal experts is a relatively small one, so the Juice has been asking some high-level folks in the scientific community to weigh in on the recent controversy surrounding veterinarian Dr. Rene Varela, candidate for mayor of Lake Worth. One expert, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Varela was a "very good veterinarian and seemed like a good person, but I personally lost respect for him when he went to work for Ocean Embassy."Speaking

  November 3, 2009