Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch A Pair Of Mountain Lions Frolic In A Sonoma Vineyard A pair of mountain lions were recently caught on surveillance cameras belonging to Jack London Vineyards, inside Jack London State Park. The cameras at the vineyard have been known for capturing wildlife, but
SF News Group Trying To Reintroduce Grizzlies To California Launches Cheeky Ad Campaign With Gay 'Bear' The few places you'll find grizzly bears in California include the San Francisco zoo and our state flag: Fewer than 75 years after gold was first discovered in California, the bear was eradicated
SF News Alligator Shows Up In The Wild In East Bay Creek, Gets Shot And Killed By Officials 4' alligator sighted Monday in Ala. Co Creek @ACSOSheriffs lead agency with jurisdiction of waterway. Pls avoid area pic.twitter.com/3kN0q5cVGW— Fremont Police Dept (@FremontPD) August 16, 2016 The life of an
misc Video: Bernal Hill Coyote Plays With Ball Just Like One Of The Dogs A photo posted by @rallyp_157 on Aug 7, 2016 at 8:19am PDT A particular Bernal Hill coyote, one of perhaps a few that roam the area's park, has been picking up
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rare Sighting Of Momma Bear And Cubs Swimming With People In Lake Tahoe A mother bear and her two cubs wandered out of the woods to go for a dip in South Lake Tahoe, nary a care in the world on Monday. The bears were not
Arts & Entertainment New Fun Weekend Activity: Watching Herons Hunt, Kill, And Swallow Gophers Whole In Golden Gate Park @coolbiRdpics yesterday in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco pic.twitter.com/xIUarZzncH— Elliot Loh (@Loh) May 7, 2016 Local Twitterer Elliott Loh was hanging out in Golden Gate Park last month when he
SF News Video: Mother Bear And Cubs Stroll Through Lake Tahoe Neighborhood Casually strolling down the streets of South Lake Tahoe, a mother black bear and her two cubs appear to not have a care in the world. Not knocking over trash bins, or charging
SF News Record Heat Is Bringing Out Snakes (Watch Out!) Today's potentially record-breaking heat is causing snakes, both the venomous and non-venomous varieties, to slither and creep into yards and homes, alternately seeking both sun and shade. And as Sonoma County Reptile Rescue
SF News Another Wolf Has Entered NorCal, Which Is A Good Thing A gray wolf has entered Northern California, which conservationists take as a sign that the local population could be recovering from endangerment. SF Gate reports that a wolf equipped with a radio collar
SF News [Update] 'Very Determined' Elephant Seal Still Trying To Cross North Bay Highway Why did the elephant seal cross the road? (Or the highway, in this case...) https://t.co/YDLxq417dd pic.twitter.com/M6W3KNvMds— Marine Mammal Center (@TMMC) December 29, 2015 As the sun rose
SF News Elephant Seal Blocks North Bay Highway, Gets Feisty With Passing Cars Things are getting a little wild on a North Bay highway today, as an elephant seal has been off and on blocking traffic all afternoon, and has allegedly attacked at least one car
SF News Stowaway Bear Rides Trash Truck To Fresno Bear detained.All good, no injuries. Cinnamon back to his home in Hume Lake:) pic.twitter.com/nPsnu2Px44— Fresno Police (@FresnoPolice) December 22, 2015 Beware of hitchhikers — they just might be dangerous, as
SF News Coyote Attacks Another Small Dog In Stern Grove, Big Dog Saves It 'Like Rin Tin Tin' A Maltese-poodle mix was killed near Pine Lake in Stern Grove as its owners watched in horror back in September, and once again, a coyote pounced on a small dog in the park
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Chronicle Tells You How To Hunt And Kill Your Own Thanksgiving Turkey I didn't realize that one could hunt and kill a wild turkey in California and that said turkey would actually be worth eating, but according to the Chronicle, this is totally a thing!
SF News One Of Those Tuesday Warning System Towers Turned Off Because It's A Hawk's Nest Now You know those sirens that terrify tourists and don't particularly faze locals every Tuesday at noon, blaring for 15 second to test our "Outdoor Public Warning System?" Well, in a story sure to
SF News Gray Foxes Are Breeding In The Presidio Again In an encouraging sign, a single gray fox sighting in February now leads us to photos of an entire gray fox family. Per sources to the Examiner, at least three of the foxes
SF News WTF Is Happening With Raccoons In SF: What You Can Do To Keep Your Dog Safe The veterinarian bill for American Grilled Cheese Kitchen owner Heidi Gibson's 60-pound pit bull came to $350. As she wrote to Facebook, beneath a picture of Micky's raw and bleeding muzzle: "Micky: 1
SF News Entire Gray Wolf Pack Sighted In NorCal Woods, Including Five Pups Thought to be endangered and not seen in California in 90 years, gray wolf sightings have been happening this year with some frequency via remote, motion-activated, wildlife trail cameras. Only up until now,
SF News This Rain Is Messing Up Our Salmon Migration Good for the fishes? Not these ones. As KPIX 5 reports, our endangered salmon population in the Sacramento River, already troubled by years of drought, is completely confused by the rain. Fish near
SF News Beware Of Crazed Blackbird That Attacks All Passing Humans Near Stow Lake Over in Golden Gate Park, there is a rogue blackbird which, maybe under the pretenses of protecting a nest or maybe because it's just insanely aggressive, has made a habit of pouncing and
SF News Mercury Cougar Hits, Kills Actual Cougar In Los Altos In a depressing twist of fate, a cougar (the mountain lion kind) was struck by a Cougar (the Mercury kind) on Monday morning on a stretch of Highway 280 going through Los Altos.
SF News Wild Turkeys Terrorizing Albany Now The Wild Turkeys of Berkeley, which we first heard about last year but which seem to have been proliferating for several years now, have moved in to Albany. As CBS 5 is reporting,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Enormous Mammal Heads South On Sex Trip Today in wildlife photography, intrepid nature watcher David Cruz spotted a gray whale breaching in the waters just west of the Cliff House over the weekend. As the first significantly documented whale activity
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quail Two Ways Photo one: A wild quail watches over its covey in Golden Gate Park last week. Photo two: the signature fried quail dish on the menu at State Bird Provisions. Esteemed Chronicle Food Critic
Arts & Entertainment Please Enjoy These Photos Of Dolphins Surfing At Ocean Beach This week in wildlife sightings: local nature observer David Cruz spotted this pod of cetaceans over the past week or so, leaping out of the water off of Ocean Beach and generally acting
