Study: Zebra Stripes Could Confuse Predators
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
March 22, 2015
Researchers said zebras’ stripes seem to confuse lions and other predators by creating distracting visual illusions.
Researchers said zebras’ stripes seem to confuse lions and other predators by creating distracting visual illusions.
The bill will reduce the number of days counties must keep estray animals, including horses, in their custody.
The meetings will focus on wild burro management in Arizona’s Black Mountain Herd Management Area.
A Nevada judge has dismissed a lawsuit asking the BLM to remove horses from rangelands to protect the ecologic balance.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the Badlands Horse Registry will work to place wild horses in approved homes.
The court says the BLM violated the NEPA, but didn’t violate the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act.
The plan involves treating mares in the Onaqui herd management area with a fertility control vaccine via remote darting.
Mustangs require care different from the average domestic saddle horse. Here’s how vets manage BLM horses’ health.
The public tour of the Indian Lakes Off-Range Corral in Fallon, Nevada, will take place on March 7.
The legislation would reduce the number of days Kentucky counties must keep estray animals in their custody.
The BLM is seeking pasture facilities that can provide a free-roaming environment for horses removed from rangelands.
The legislation would place wild horses under state and Native American tribe jurisdiction rather than under the BLM’s.
The BLM Utah Cedar City Field Office says the horses are causing public health and safety concerns along Highway 21.
The BLM partners with entities to train mustangs gathered from public lands to prepare them for use as riding horses.
The gather, expected to last 10 days, will be followed by a wild horse adoption event on Feb. 28.
The judge halted the gather “until the court has an opportunity to fully consider the merits of plaintiffs’ claims.”
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