Man-eating lions, rare black bobcats & an island-hopping wolf

[View this email in your browser]( [Wolf]( Since he first materialised five years ago, a lone wolf on a little Salish Sea archipelago off the Canadian coast has become quite the celebrity – doing his solitary thing just a howl or two from a busy city. [Read more]( HIGHLIGHTS [Volcano]( The world's five deadliest volcanoes Research shows that volcanic activity hasn’t let up since the turn of the 21st century – it just hasn’t been around population centres. But a number of volcanoes poised to blow do pose a major threat to human life today. [Read more]( [Lion]( The mystery of Tsavo’s man-eating lions In 1898, a railroad camp in Tsavo, Kenya was terrorised over several months by a pair of lions who killed an estimated three dozen railroad workers. One question has remained unanswered all this time: what motivated these predators to hunt humans? [Read more]( FEATURED VIDEO [Whale]( Flu-fighting frogs, jungle puppies & a blue whale meal Frog skin fights the flu, blue whales are picky eaters, 50 new spiders Down Under and a first-ever look at jungle puppies. All that and more in your 2-minute recap of wildlife news! [VOD]( WATCH THIS Capture Wild School Once a year in Malilangwe, Zimbabwe, students from a variety of different nations gather to learn the art of darting and tranquilising wild animals from some of the most legendary wildlife vets on earth. [Watch now]( Gannets - The Wrong Side Of The Run In this documentary we show a dramatic comparison between two environments fed by the same stock of sardine, and dominated by the Cape gannets. [Watch now]( IMAGE OF THE WEEK [Snake]( Hidden somewhere in all this leaf litter is a well-known member of the pitviper family. Can you see it? [Click for the reveal.]( Via Helen Plylar/Twitter AROUND THE GLOBE [Amur]( Russian Far East: Special spotted delivery The world's rarest big cat has some welcome new reinforcements: camera traps have captured two cubs in a cave den at the Land of the Leopard National Park. [Watch now]( [Bobcat]( Canada: Museum studies rare bobcat The New Brunswick Museum has been given a rare opportunity to study a unique all-black bobcat, a colour morph that is thought to have been documented only 16 times in these spotted cats. [Read more]( [Orca]( California: Drone films a whale-sized feast Whale watchers in California's Monterey Bay got a dose of action this week when a pod of orcas came inland to feast on the carcass of a gray whale. The resulting footage could be the first of its kind. [Watch now]( [Quote of the week]( Copyright © 2017 Earth Touch News Network, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](