Wildlife

The otter pup was brought to the Alaska SeaLife Center earlier this month after a staffer on a fishing trip in Homer helped with the rescue, center officials say.

A sow was shot and killed Tuesday but its two cubs were brought to the Alaska Zoo, Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials say. A private citizen killed another brown bear in July.

A researcher’s favorite whale from the population of Glacier Bay humpbacks returned after disappearing during a heat wave where water temperatures increased substantially.

So far, 22 sea lions have been found, with signs of human interaction, including gunshot wounds.

Despite efforts to nurse the young walrus back to health, it died Friday after its condition took a turn for the worse, the Alaska SeaLife Center said.

The 400-pound black bear was connected to 21 home break-ins, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Looking for answers behind the rescue of a walrus calf on the North Slope.

A walrus calf is being nursed back to health at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward after being found on its own about four miles inland by oil field workers on the North Slope.

The Board of Game-authorized program carried out in southwestern Alaska was illegal and will not help the flagging Mulchatna caribou herd, the lawsuits claim.

The European black slug is much larger and more disruptive to crops than native slugs. A cool, damp summer has helped make Anchorage a perfect home for the gastropods.

The large bear was attracted to the area by unsecured trash, an Anchorage biologist said.

Wild bears like Otis are supposed to return to the salmon run in late June, not July, but rising ocean temperatures and overfishing are in part delaying the arrival of salmon.

“It was just a whale ballet,” said Robert Addie, who recorded the moment during a fishing trip off Cape Cod with his family for his birthday.

Federal wildlife biologist Steve Lewis spotted the scene from a helicopter while he was conducting a bald eagle nest survey at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

“Adoption in bears is rare, but this season we have the privilege of seeing this phenomenon among our Brooks River bears,” park officials said on Facebook.

The sea otter that’s been approaching kayakers and biting surfboards near a Northern California coastal town took on star status since wildlife officials announced that they were trying to return her to captivity.

People show up every day to get a glimpse of the otter sunbathing on the rocky shore, diving in the water and chomping down on crabs.

“I dream about seeing whales up close. But not this close,” said Kevin Williams of Anchorage.

AFD Petroleum President Dale Reimer said Mark Skage was “ultimately terminated due to a series of workplace incidents culminating with this incident.”

Cook Inlet belugas were listed as endangered in 2008.

The decision closes all Tier 1 hunts of the Nelchina herd across an area that includes the Denali Highway.

A legal analysis by the Department of Law found the proposed hunt, for people with mobility impairments, would violate Alaska’s constitution.

With a ferocity that has been noted in the annals of history, there are an estimated 17 trillion mosquitoes hovering above Alaska each summer.