carnivores

#ForewordFriday: Big Cat Week Edition

Island Press agrees with National Geographic: big cats are cool. In honor of the last day of Nat Geo's #BigCatWeek, we'd like to help celebrate by highlighting one of the most mysterious big cats in the world: the jaguar.
Photo credit: Flock/bandada by Flickr.com user Rafael Edwards

Recovery of the Great Bear?

As was the case for other large carnivores in the lower 48 United States, by the 1960s grizzly bears were nearly extinct.