Their chubby cheeks, curious nature and playful behavior are endearing to many, but to farmers they're destructive pests. Gophers, also known as Richardson's ground squirrels, cost farmers thousands ...

GAINSVILLE, FLA – To improve my chances, and because wandering around sandy scrub at dawn yelling ‘tortoise, please’ isn’t a real strategy, I arranged to meet Katherine Saylor, the Southeastern ...

Florida is home to plenty of species that need no introduction: alligators, crocodiles, panthers, or manatees. However, a silent sentinel lies within burrows of Florida’s grounds. The gopher tortoise ...

April 10 is the annual Gopher Tortoise Day. Without this keystone species, entire ecosystems in Florida and other states would unravel. NPCA is working to save them, and here’s how you can help. On a ...

EUSTIS, Fla. – Butterflies move between flowers as wind chimes ring through the trees at the Trout Lake Nature Center. Nearby, a three-legged gopher tortoise named Tripod slowly eats lettuce and ...

North America has about 40 species of gophers or "pocket gophers," which are small, burrowing rodents that spend most of their time underground feasting on plant roots. These animals have a wide ...

What are those varmints in my garden? Are they moles, voles or gophers? Moles are small insect-eating mammals. If you see mounds of dirt and surface runways, you may have moles. Voles, or meadow mice, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Farmers have petitioned to get a reversal on the banning of strychnine., but nothing has come of it. (Monty Kruger/CBC - image ...