zoology

What are your favorite words? What’s the best thing anyone has ever said to you? What’s the best thing you say to others, and maybe need to say to you...

OLEAN — The scope and cost of animal control in the city are still under review, with officials debating the merits of contractors or employees to han...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation wants New Yorkers to be aware of potential conflicts between people and coyotes to protect the publ...

We quote a friend who particularly dislikes winter: “That darn woodchuck!” Yes, there will be six more weeks of winter, as predicted by Punxsutawney P...

OLEAN — Animal shelters across the country were helped this month with dollars donated through the Betty White Challenge, and local animal rescue and ...

In a continuing effort to combat social isolation, the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) and Association on Aging in New York (AgingNY) hav...

The Olean Times Herald printed an excellent article on the risks to pets during the holidays. Be cautious as you pack up and discard decorations, tins...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Westminster Kennel Club’s annual dog show has become the latest event to be postponed or canceled in New York as the number of cor...

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.” Proverbs 6:6 Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard biologist who has died at age 92, is most fa...

Every December, I post the immortal Beverly and Fred Christmas photo for my Facebook friends. It’s a perfect snapshot taken almost 20 years ago, featu...

As a hunter I understand we need to recruit more youth into the field. Hunting is a great social and teaching tool for our young people. But I truly a...

I absolutely love to hunt whitetail deer. Some of my earliest memories are of my family’s hunting preparations and, of course, the long-awaited first ...

With few exceptions, it’s been a lackluster couple of months for local birding. Usually at this time of the year we expect to see a few species of win...

ITHACA — Thanksgiving may be a perilous time for turkeys, but one wild turkey has a lot to be grateful for. The female turkey, badly injured after bei...

SNOW WHITE: “Such a great dog,” said longtime SPCA volunteer John Skadowski, who is devoted to the older dogs who end up in the shelter at the SPCA in...

Older “kids” will remember spending hot summer days and breezy nights at the pavilion and amusement park once located on the North Shore of Cuba Lake....

STEAMBURG — The release of a herd of bison at a farm run by the Seneca Nation of Indians near Steamburg was canceled Thursday after the death of two a...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (TNS) — More than 80% of the whitetail deer in research conducted in Iowa from last December to January tested positive for the v...