Plus: a shy, rare langur shows its face; Florida's state shell at risk
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For centuries, Indigenous communities in British Columbia relied on hunting mountain caribou for survival, but dwindling herds have meant that recent generations of the communities hardly see caribou and have never hunted them. Now, two First Nations have turned their focus to successfully increasing the numbers of the severely depleted Klinse-Za herd.
To do that, they have taken pregnant caribou to pens guarded from the predators. The calves are born and are nurtured there, and then are returned to the wild when they can stand. The First Nations in the western Canadian province also have, reluctantly, had to cull some wolves, the caribou’s main predator.
The Klinse-Za herd has tripled in size over the past nine years, marking a huge gain for the caribou in B.C.—and a point of pride for Roland Willson, chief of West Moberly First Nations. “In saving caribou,” he tells Nat Geo, “we’re saving ourselves.”
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Getting one caribou to safety: Above, Starr Gauthier and Jordan Garbitt from the Saulteau First Nations wait for a sedated caribou to wake up after transport to a maternity pen, where she will be protected from predators until her calves are born. Pictured at top, this female caribou was the first in 2022 to be taken to a maternity pen.
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| Shy guy: Very rare and highly secretive. Not much more is known about the endangered Gee’s golden langur. Unlike other species of langur that appear to be unafraid of humans, this monkey reportedly works hard to avoid human interactions, making them extremely difficult to observe in the wild. What we do know is that like other monkeys in the Colobinae subfamily, the golden langur has a stomach designed to break down the hard-to-digest cellulose in leaves, reflecting its diet of fruits, flowers, seeds, leaf buds, and twigs. Nat Geo Explorer Joel Sartore, who’s photographing every captive species on the planet, took this video at India's Assam State Zoo.
On a mission: Inside Sartore’s ‘Photo Ark’ for animals
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY OLE JENSEN, GETTY IMAGES | | | Animal spillover: Documents obtained by National Geographic show that the CDC was aware that mink may have affected humans with COVID-19 at least three months before the agency quietly updated its website. Mink, show above at a fur farm in Denmark, became sick across Europe in 2020 with a variant of the coronavirus. The same variant was later detected in animals on a Michigan farm and in four people in the area. Researchers say the delay in reporting affected their ability to monitor the spread of the coronavirus, Nat Geo reports. | | | |
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