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How to Keep Your Dog Safe from Predators While Hiking

Hiking with your dog can be an amazing way to enjoy nature together, but it also comes with some risks. Predators like coyotes, hawks, or even snakes can pose a danger to your furry friends, if you’re ...
Smithsonian Magazine

To Hide From Predators, Some Animals Camouflage Into Their Surroundings, While Others Display Bright Colors as a Warning. What Keeps Them Safest?

Animals need to get creative to survive in the wild. While some feature bright “warning colors” to keep predators away, a strategy called aposematism, others have evolved to stay hidden in their ...
Yahoo

Suburban Livestock Guardian Dog’s First ‘Predator’ Encounter Is Too Cute

If you're getting a livestock guardian dog, it's because you need one. Livestock can't really protect themselves: a pack of coyotes, a fisher, or even a raccoon can all wreak havoc on your animals.
Post Register

A grassland bird eavesdrops on prairie dog calls to keep itself safe from predators

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air. “Prairie ...
WFMY News2

‘Porn Dog' To Sniff Out Child Predators

From drug sniffing dogs to bomb sniffing dogs, they have a nose for the no good. And coming soon, the first of its crime-fighting kind in Texas. The "porn" dog," said Jon Dumas with Montgomery County ...
PBS

This grassland bird eavesdrops on prairie dogs to keep itself safe from predators

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air. “Prairie ...