We’re looking for SoCalWild readers to share what they’ve seen! If you’ve snagged a great picture and would like to submit it for consideration and posting, please send it our way. They can be fun, professional, unusual, inspirational…if you like it, chances are we will too. Several quick requirements: You must of taken the photo […]
We’re looking for SoCalWild readers to share what they’ve seen! If you’ve snagged a great picture and would like to submit it for consideration and posting, please send it our way. Several quick requirements: You must of taken the photo that you submit (i.e. it’s your picture) You give SoCalWild rights to republish the […]
They may be great and white, but the numbers of the great white shark who dwell off the central California coast are far fewer than biologists had thought. Research led by UC Davis and Stanford University put the number at about 219. The study, published this week in the journal Biology Letters, is the first […]
At one point, a mere 25 years ago, you could have easily written off the California condor: the population was extinct in the wild and only 27 birds were living in captivity at the San Diego Zoo. Pretty much a done bye-bye deal for North America’s largest flying bird, right?
We like it when semi-retired folk often do strange things that they wouldn’t have dreamed of earlier in their lives – and we don’t mean changing their dinner time to 5 p.m.
La Jolla’s Will Sooter is a fine example of someone who discovered how fate, nature and a morning jog can transform a life.
Proving that it’s not just for kids, the second annual Santa Monica Mountains Science Festival promises a bevy of outdoorsy-activities that will entice the stubbornest coach potatoes to get up to enjoy the wide open spaces. Watch owls fly at night. Identify a wildflower. Learn how to track mountain lions and bobcats. Listen to stories […]
Smaller than a house cat, the Santa Cruz Island fox is king of the roost on his very own island; not every critter can lay claim to such a captive empire. And these little beasts are flourishing back on their native soil, years after their numbers precariously dwindled.
Don’t call them mice! As members of the rodent family, voles have fascinating and unusual traits. See if you can guess the right answer!
As their California condor population continues to grow, the folks at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are giving their California Condor Recovery Program a maternal makeover – and we think we hear peeps of joy from new baby birds born in captivity.
Got dogs? (Yay!) Got dogs that love to hike with you in the mountains and canyons? (Big yay!) Got dogs that love to pounce on snakes? (Boo!)
Naturalists would have had a couple of A+ field days down in Orange County this past weekend because folks aboard a Dana Wharf Sportfishing and Whale Watching vessel got a taste of nature at her most unusual – two, possibly rare albino dolphins and an estimated 2,200 pound sunfish (better known as a mola mola).
Gordon Grice | Dial Press. This is the kind of book you don’t give to people like my mother who gravitate toward thinking the worst of any situation. That cute little dog over there? A killer. What about those charming circus elephants? Murderers. And don’t even think that a mere butterfly is safe…