COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL We are becoming an urbanized society. In fact, by 2050, over 65% of all humans will live in urban and suburban areas. At the same time, coyotes are becoming more common in those same areas. This leads to a number of questions. To get at some of this, I ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL Around 20 years ago, we started to hear a lot about “bird friendly” coffee. What precipitated this was the knowledge that most shade-grown coffee systems were being converted to full-sun plantations because it increased coffee yields. For example, ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL If you’ve been a regular reader of my column over the years, then you know I’m not a fan of house cats that run around outside. They can be cats that live in and around a home. They can be stray cats that someone dumped. Or they can be feral cats that have ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL I ran into some friends as I walked at the Morgantown Botanic Garden and they asked me whether deer and turkey eat morel mushrooms. I wasn’t sure about turkeys, but I knew that deer eat morels. Do they eat so many that morel pickers, who will be out there ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL Periodically I get emails from readers who have seen a deer that just doesn’t look normal. They write because they want to know the cause. Let me start with the most unique and unusual problem. A month ago, I got an email from a hunter who found a shed ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL What land vertebrate has the largest eye? The obvious answer would be the elephant, but that isn’t correct. The answer is the ostrich. Ostriches are the largest birds in the world, so I guess it is not surprising that they have huge eyes. Their eyes are 5 ...