captivity

Marine biologist discusses animals in captivity

The WSU Zoology Club presents, “Considerations of Caring for Animals in Captivity: Sharks and Cetaceans” on Monday April 21 at 4:10 p.m. Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium marine biologist Cindy Roberts will lead the discussion on Sharks and Cetaceans and the challenges they present in captivity in Abelson 201.

Endangered pygmy rabbits researched at WSU

PULLMAN – Eleven of about two dozen pygmy rabbits scheduled for a March 13 reintroduction into their native sagebrush habitat in Douglas County by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will come from Washington State University, one of three sites where the animals have been bred in […]

Defying captivity –in spades

A garden’s ability to humanize landscape and experience in the dire conditions of wartime and internment is the topic of “Defiant Gardens,” a lecture by author Kenneth Helphand, who recently wrote a book of the same title. Helphand, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20, […]