Gila monsters are one of only two venomous lizard species in the world. They live in the southwestern U.S. and in Mexico. This video short features USGS Emeritus Research Ecologist, Cecil Schwalbe describing details of Gila monster biology and ecology and how he survived a very painful Gila monster bite.
Farms and orchards growing fruit face huge problems from birds that swoop in and eat the crop just as the produce is ripening. At Roy Farms in Washington State, birds can eat or damage up to 10 percent of the fruit. So it has hired Falcon Force bird abatement to use the natural predator-prey relationship […]