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  • 2 days ago | fresnobee.com | Tara Duggan

    The whale that beachgoers saw floating off Alameda on Sunday was the fourth gray whale to die in the bay or surrounding waters in a month. Researchers do not yet know the reason for the cluster of deaths, but they have seen an uptick in the number of whales heading into the bay this spring.

  • 3 days ago | sfchronicle.com | Tara Duggan

    A dead whale floats in the San Francisco Bay off of Alameda on Sunday, April 20. Noah Berger/For the S.F. ChronicleCalifornia will close commercial fishing for Dungeness crab in the San Francisco area on May 1 to protect whales, after another humpback was spotted tangled in crab fishing gear in Monterey Bay.

  • 3 days ago | sfchronicle.com | Tara Duggan

    People watch from shore as a dead gray whale floats in the San Francisco Bay in Alameda on Sunday. It was the fourth confirmed dead gray whale found in the bay or surrounding waters in a month. Noah Berger/For the S.F. ChronicleAn Alameda County firefighter hoses down a juvenile minke whale as it was beached on the shores of Emeryville earlier this month. The whale was later euthanized.

  • 3 days ago | modbee.com | Tara Duggan

    Last weekend, a mother and her teenage children came into a wildlife center in San Francisco, distraught. An exterminator had suggested they use glue traps to deal with a rodent problem, but they weren't prepared for what they would find: three tiny baby rats attached to the glue, struggling, screaming and very much alive. "I will never do that again," the woman told Irina Ozernoy, a volunteer at Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue, where the baby rats are now recovering.

  • 3 days ago | sfchronicle.com | Tara Duggan

    WildCare in San Rafael regularly treats wild animals caught in glue traps intended for mice and rats, such as this dark-eyed junco. Courtesy WildCareFrom left, a snap trap, a rodent management station and a glue trap. Lea Suzuki/S.F. ChronicleJ.J. Clark, Pestec integrated pest management technician, holds a cardboard mouse station containing two baited snap traps before he places them in a space under a San Francisco home.

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Garth Stapley

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