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
Arts & Entertainment Video: Hear The Call Of A Glen Park Coyote Because we are about 15-25 feet away from nature at any given time in San Francisco, we have to constantly be on the lookout for wild animals whether they are adorable, bizarre or
SF News Deer In Berkeley Are Going Buck Wild While San Francisco has adorable coyotes to contend with, folks in Berkeley are currently experiencing a much quirkier problem with their urban wildlife: violent deer. According to several readers over at Berkeleyside and
SF News Who Poisoned Sutro Heights Park? Over the weekend, neighborhood blog RichmondSF received word from patrons and dog owners out enjoying Sutro Heights park that someone had spread rat poison around the grass in the park putting kids, pets
Arts & Entertainment Great Horn Owl Spotted in Glen Park Canyon A great horn owl was spotted recently in the Glen Park Canyon (where?) by local park frequenter Steven Uchida. The retired U.S. Postal worker snapped these photographs of the owl perched on
SF News Dead Bear Found Outside Strip Mall in San Leandro A dead black bear, apparently shot, was dumped outside a taqueria at a strip mall in San Leandro on Sunday, and this all happened during business hours. ABC 7 has the story, and
SF News Baby Turtles Released Into Wild In a project between Sonoma State University, the Oakland Zoo, and the San Francisco Zoo, the Western Pond Turtle project released 19 Western Pond Turtles back into the wild this week at an
SF News San Francisco's Bison, Can They Survive Nowadays? Sadly, the answer could be no. SFAppeal has a phenomenal video that highlights the declining bison population of San Francisco. Although only five of them remain in the city today, "the bison recently
SF News Let Them Eat Oysters, Says Feinstein Going head to head with the Wilderness Act and righteous green folk, Senator Dianne Feinstein reformulated a bill that would allow Drakes Bay Oyster Co., California's largest commercial shellfish farm, to continue farming
SF News Man Handed Two-<del>Year</del> Month Prison Term For Selling Endangered Fish Online 27-year-old Danny Yep of San Francisco must spend two months in a federal prison and then four months in home confinement for selling the endangered Asian Arowana fish (AKA the Asian Boney tongue
