zoology

Many Pennsylvania hunters hunt in bordering states — New York, Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland and West Virginia. Many New York hunters hunt in Pennsylvani...

I couldn’t believe this stand. Set in the bottom of a meandering Missouri creek bottom, it was only 12 feet off the ground. The seat rested against th...

Dog ownership comes with expected expenses such as licensing fees. Fines may be incurred if the dog is not licensed or found running at large. Owners ...

MAYVILLE (AP) — A Chautauqua County hunter who fatally shot a neighbor he mistook for a deer has pleaded guilty. Thomas Jadlowski of Sherman was indic...

Readers of State & Union should be familiar with the myriad homefront efforts to support the troops and industry during World War II — from bond drive...

While the proposed listing of the northern long-eared bat, tri-colored bat and little brown bat on the state’s endangered and threatened species list ...

It’s officially fall, and the odds of a driver hitting a deer on our country roads and highways more than doubles during October, November and Decembe...

Do you hunt deer in order to fill your freezer? Or in order to get a nice set of antlers to hang on your wall? Non-hunters don’t care, anti-hunters ar...

Expect to see the first edition of a new SPCA annual newsletter after Thanksgiving. There will be updates on what’s been going on with the animals and...

ALLEGANY — Pet Supplies Plus of Olean will celebrate its grand opening in Allegany’s Walmart Plaza on Sept. 29 with a weekend of pet-centric events. T...

What’s in a name? Not much when it comes to birds. Consider the name “seagull.” It may not be surprising that people around here use the term seagull ...

It is again the time of year for the most cases of wild or domestic animals, such as bats, skunks, fox and raccoon, coming into contact with you or yo...

OLEAN — The Common Council now has a possible way forward with feral cats on paper, with a draft to green-light trap-neuter-release operations on the ...

It’s just another day in the life of a police officer in McKean County — traffic stops, complaint investigations, wrestling an alligator... Foster Tow...

For the most part, we try not to make State & Union a soapbox — but every so often we agree heartily enough with a reader’s point of view on a subject...

Twenty years ago the deer population was high, bucks were everywhere, and it wasn’t hard to get one. Most were a year and a half old, with their first...

(TNS) Standing on spindly stalk-like legs, she’s still sticking close to mom for now. North Carolina’s herd of wild Colonial Spanish mustangs roaming ...

ALLEGANY — Many of the 300 exotic reptiles and endangered animals seized from an Allegany home by the state Department of Environmental Conservation o...