Articles for category: Animal Behavior, Conservation, Human–Animal Dynamics

Orangutan and infant in Sumatra, Indonesia 1998

The Orangutan Island That’s Giving Orphans a Second Chance

Trizzy Orozco

It’s hard to imagine a world where baby orangutans, wide-eyed and curious, cling to each other instead of their mothers. Yet, deep in the emerald heart of Borneo, there is an island where these orphaned apes are offered not just survival, but hope—a second chance at the wild life stolen from them. The story of ...

Myth and Mystery: Red Deer in Culture

Highland Havens: Scotland’s Red Deer and Wildcat Conservation Parks

Trizzy Orozco

The Scottish Highlands are a wild, wind-swept tapestry of misty glens, ancient forests, and heather-clad mountains—a place where you can still feel the pulse of nature’s untamed heart. Imagine standing in the cool hush of dawn, your breath mingling with the fog, as a red deer stag lifts its antlers above the bracken, or catching ...

The Secret Lives of Mountain Lions

Solitary and Smart: The Surprising Social Behavior of Mountain Lions

Trizzy Orozco

Imagine standing at the edge of a dense forest at dusk, the air tingling with the quiet promise of hidden lives. Somewhere, in the deep shadow, a mountain lion glides silently, alone but intensely aware of her world. For decades, scientists painted these big cats as the ultimate loners—mysterious, elusive, and fiercely independent. But what ...

Pack of Coywolf hybrids.

Do Wolves Attack Humans? The Truth About Wolf Encounters

Wolves have long captured the human imagination, their haunting howls echoing through the forests and their sleek forms slipping silently through the shadows. Yet, alongside this fascination lies an age-old fear. Do wolves attack humans? This question has lingered in the collective consciousness, fueled by folklore and the occasional news story. With their piercing eyes ...

Snow leopard and her cub.

How Urban Sprawl Threatens the World’s Shyest Big Cat

Trizzy Orozco

In the bustling cacophony of our expanding cities, there exists a ghost that haunts the shadows between concrete and wilderness. It’s not a phantom from folklore, but something far more real and infinitely more vulnerable. The leopard—nature’s most enigmatic big cat—is facing a crisis that few people even know is happening. While lions roar from ...

Captivating scene of an Iberian lynx and cub in their natural habitat in Spain.

Bringing Back the Lynx: Inside Europe’s Bold Rewilding Efforts

Imagine standing in a quiet, old European forest at sunrise, the mist curling around ancient trees, when a ghostly feline shape slips between shadows—a lynx, once thought lost, returning to its ancestral home. This is not a fantasy. Across Europe, dedicated teams of scientists, conservationists, and ordinary citizens are on a mission: to bring back ...