SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in expenses were omitted from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s recent estimate of the cost of running the state’s commercial animal-trapping program, according to a new review of the department’s economic analysis by two conservation groups.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/california-fur-trapping-02-05-2018.php
The bobcat was rescued from a trail near Sycamore Grove Park but his injuries were so severe that he was euthanized.
https://patch.com/california/livermore/bobcat-possibly-shot-found-livermore
A recent study published in the Journal of Mammalogy, at Oxford University Press, highlights that over 1000 new species of mammals have been described globally during the last dozen years, a finding that contradicts the notion that our mammalian relatives are well known. This rate of species discovery parallels that seen in global amphibians, and is driven by advances in DNA analysis methods and field exploration.
https://m.phys.org/news/2018-02-mammal-species-thought.html