Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
Black-tailed prairie dogs are quite susceptible to sylvatic plague, but a new plague vaccine put in their food shows significant promise in the laboratory. The prairie dogs transmit the disease to endangered black-footed ferrets, who eat the prairie dogs and are also quite susceptible to the disease...
Location: USA

Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
Black-tailed prairie dogs are quite susceptible to sylvatic plague, but a new plague vaccine put in their food shows significant promise in the laboratory. The prairie dogs transmit the disease to endangered black-footed ferrets, who eat the prairie dogs and are also quite susceptible to the disease...
Location: USA

Animal Halter
This is one of many objects used by field scientists in the care of their animals. This type of halter was used to provide an easy way to hold on to animals that might otherwise become unruly or wander away. Object ID: USGS-000076...
Location: USA

Tule Elk at San Luis National Wildlife Refuge
Tule elk are shown here in their natural habitat at San Luis National Wildlife Refuge; Recovery Act funding will enable the refuge to build a Visitor Center to better serve the public. Related to the R8AF — Construct Headquarters Visitor Building — San Luis NWR project....
Location: Los Banos, CA, USA

Flock of birds
A large flock of birds, mostly egrets, resting and flying along a canal on Highway 833 (a short drive north off of I-75 (Alligator Alley))....
Location: FL, USA

Alligators along canal
Two alligators lying along a canal, just north off of I-75 (Alligator Alley) onto Highway 833....
Location: FL, USA

White-tailed deer
A male, white-tailed deer that had recently lost an antler, foraging in the wet prairie at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Florida....
Location: FL, USA

Great Blue Heron and Great Egret
A great blue heron and great egret in the parking lot by the Big Cypress Bend boardwalk at Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. The heron is enjoying a fish dinner thanks to the hunting skills of the egret. While the egret had initially held a fish in it's beak, the heron’s squabbling caused the...
Location: FL, USA

Brown Pelican
Adult brown pelican posing on a boat dock at Everglades City, Florida....
Location: FL, USA

Waterbirds
Small waterbirds resting atop a limestone outcropping in Chokoloskee Bay....
Location: FL, USA

Royal terns
Royal terns atop a channel marker in the Ten Thousand Islands waterway....
Location: FL, USA

Osprey
Osprey family in nest, built atop one of the mangrove islands that make up Ten Thousand Islands....
Location: FL, USA

Fiddler crab burrows
Fiddler crab burrows abound in and around the intricate red mangrove root system submerged in the muddy tidal flats at West Lake Park....
Location: FL, USA

Mangrove crab
A mangrove crab camouflaged on the trunk of a mangrove tree at West Lake Park....
Location: FL, USA

Male fiddler crab
A male fiddler crab at West Lake Park....
Location: FL, USA