Creature Feature

How Many Oysters Does It Take to Restore the Bay?

Severn River Association lowers the magic number

Marylanders are planting oysters as if they can save the species by their effort alone. Perhaps they can.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 6/10/10

Sucked into Battle

In the war against the vacuum, Lothian’s Juanky is declared top dog

The war between pets and vacuum cleaners is long-standing and seemingly inexplicable. Maybe it’s the noise. Maybe it’s the aggressive suction coupled with a rolling machine. Maybe pets just don’t like clean carpets. Eureka Vacuums, however, sought an armistice between their cleaners and your furry friends, inviting pet owners around the country to enter Fido’s Fight or Flight contest with videos of their pets reactions to the vacuum.

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– by Diana Beechener – 9/23/10

This Week’s Creature Feature - Good-bye Terrapins

After raising terrapins from hatchlings,
3rd-graders release them at Poplar Island

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– by Jack Knoll – 6/17/10

This Week’s Creature Feature - Two Years into a Life Sentence

Calvert Marine Museum’s snakehead settles into life in solitary confinement

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– by Diana Beechener – 9/24/10

This Week’s Creature Feature Taking Wing Against Pollution

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a person in a chicken suit

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– by Diana Beechener – 7/8/10

This Week’s Creature Feature - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Safely stashed in the doomsday vault are a diversity of seeds from New Mexico’s most well-known food group

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– by Margaret Tearman – 7/15/10

This Week’s Creature Feature - Tomatoes R Us

Far ahead of schedule, this summer’s bumper crop is shocking the system

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– by M.L. Faunce – 7/22/10

This Week’s Creature Feature - How Are the Oiled Birds Doing?

Leg bands help tell the story

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– by Ron Stein – 7/29/10

This Week’s Creature Feature Maryland’s Black Bears

You can hunt them, paint them or spend $5 to support them

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– by by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 8/5/10

Elephants Join the Sexual Revolution

The Humane Society International successfully tests elephant contraception

In African game reserves, elephants were eating themselves out of house and home. So the Humane Society International found a way to control the growing elephant population in South African reserves without resorting to cruel practices: elephant contraception. “In a lot of places in Africa, elephants are confined by fences or barriers,” explains Humane Society International’s director of wildlife Theresa Telecky. “If the population isn’t controlled in some way, the elephants will out-eat the area.”

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– by Diana Beechener – 9/16/10