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According to data from the North Carolina Department of Transportation, November is when most deer and vehicle collisions occur in the state.
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The North American wolverine would receive threatened species protections under a Biden administration proposal. Warming temperatures are expected to shrink the mountain snowpack wolverines rely on.
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Bowie, named after pop icon David Bowie, has clawed its way to internet stardom. The split-color crustacean was caught by a lobster fisherman off the coast of Maine.
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To help protect the salamander, the National Autonomous University of Mexico launched a campaign asking people to virtually adopt an axolotl or help pay for one of its meals.
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Rice's whales are one of the world's newly discovered whale species – and already one of the most endangered. Protections for the whales in the Gulf of Mexico are not coming fast.
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At the end of October, a Gervais’ Beaked Whale washed up on Emerald Isle. She was about a year old and weighed just over 670 pounds. Over a dozen scientists gathered together to figure out her cause of death.
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The Key deer is losing the only place it lives, raising uncomfortable questions for the people tasked with keeping endangered species alive.
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This week on SouthBound, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Mike Chamberlain, a researcher at the University of Georgia who is an expert on wild turkeys. They talk about the changing landscape for wild turkeys, and how different they are from the Butterballs we have at Thanksgiving.
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The species, including birds, mussels and a bat, have been moved off the threatened and endangered list. They join 650 other species that have gone extinct in the U.S.
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Every fall, thousands of raptors cruise above Western North Carolina on the thermals rising up from the Blue Ridge and the Brushy Mountains on their annual migration south. And every fall, a flock of dedicated volunteers camps out in a small field to count every hawk passing over a busy neighborhood in Lenoir — about 70 miles north of Charlotte as the crow, or, rather, the hawk, flies.