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Handling Bullheads and Catfish

Handling Use caution when handling members of this feisty family of fish! Catfish and bullheads are armed with single thick, sharp spines at each of the leading edges of their pectoral (side) and dorsal (top) fins. When alarmed, the fish firmly extend these spines that easily pierce human flesh.

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Wolves Repopulate Massachusetts

Before Europeans arrived in North America, what is now the 48 contiguous states, i.e., all but Alaska and Hawaii, was home to an estimated 250,000 wolves. And 10 to 20 million deer. Nowadays the estimates are 5,500 wolves, and 25 to 30 million deer. There has been lobbying to restore wolves to the east, much as was done for bald eagles, but no action expected in the near, middle or distant future. Because it is one thing to restore the national symbol, and another...

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facts about hybrid mountain lions

Is the Eastern cougar really extinct? – The eastern cougars were unofficially deemed extinct by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service evaluation in 2011. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service formally removed the Eastern cougar from the endangered species list and declared it to be extinct in 2018.

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Golf Course Big Cat -Plymouth Ma

Original Embed post from JUNE 15, 2012 ———- In 1992, while building a golf course in the dense woods of Plymouth Mass., I spied a curled burnt-orange tail moving along a tree line. I slowed the tractor and followed the tail for fifty feet to a stand of dense brush where I met the incisors and growl of an angry mountain lion. For a long second or two our eyes met. The big cat didn’t seem afraid of the big red...