Animals

These barnyard animals are bred to survive in the South

His name is Lewis, and he’s run onto the field at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium the past two home games. The university landscaping crew brings the theories on his end game.

“I guess the other one said, ‘Hell yeah, if she can do it, I can do it’”

Rather than a farewell to arms, these cats say hello to extra toes. On the Hemingway Home’s sixtieth anniversary, a look at one of the writer’s strangest legacies.

It’s been a good season for nesting, but storms brought extra challenges for hatchlings

The latest saga in South Carolina is part of long tradition of AWOL primates, many of whom are never found

In the lab and in underground caverns, biologists are on a mission to conserve the weird, wondrous life of the Ozarks

The South Carolina feline is thriving after being reunited with his owner and mending fences with his former canine nemesis

Randal Ford’s new book showcases cheeky llamas, elegant horses, shy chickens, and proud pigs

North Carolina just debuted a Venus flytrap plate—the newest in a long line of important funding sources for the Southern wilds

Donna Kalil has plunged into canals in the dead of night, straddled two-hundred-pound serpents, and been bitten more times than she can count—all in the name of killing a thing she loves and playing a game she can’t win

As the winds raged outside, the St. Augustine Alligator Farm had vultures in bathroom stalls, small animals tucked away—and gators where they always are

The release of two rehabilitated brown pelicans is the result of millions of years of evolution, cosmic coincidence, and the hard work of conservation-minded South Carolinians

Dogs, cats, horses, and more are in need of resources and evacuation—here’s how to support organizations on the ground

A struggling county in rural North Carolina is leaning on community. A new addition provides one fluffy ray of hope.

The aquatic mammals often end up in precarious positions after floods abate

Breath samples? Check. Body condition data? Check. Technology has taken off—literally

No, we couldn’t let her stay in the contest. Yes, we fell for her anyway.

A blueprint for how private timberland owners can save threatened Southern species comes courtesy of a Mississippi forester

Louisiana black bears, Alabama cave shrimp, Appalachian spruce-fir forests, Chesapeake false albacore, Keys coral reefs—these and hundreds of other precarious Southern species and ecosystems rely on the heroic efforts of this year’s lineup of groundbreaking scientists, advocates, and nature lovers