Wildlife

Seeing a wolf is read as a call to trust your instincts. What the wolf means in Native American, biblical, Celtic and East Asian traditions.

Beaver droppings are marble sized sawdust pellets that sit in shallow water. Here is how to spot them and tell them from otter, muskrat and deer scat.

A bear in a dream points to personal power and the boundaries around it. What a chasing, attacking, sleeping or dead bear is read to mean, tradition by tradition.

Florida softshell turtles reach 2 ft of leathery shell and reach backward to bite. Identification, range, legality and safe handling.

Seeing an alligator is read as a call to hold your ground. Meanings from Seminole and Choctaw tradition, the Bible, Egypt, Voodoo and modern spirit animal writing, plus what each sighting situation means.

Blue racers, eastern indigo snakes and blue striped garter snakes are the blue snakes of the US, and none of them is venomous. Here is how to tell them apart.

The blue poison dart frog cannot kill a human, and captive bred ones carry no toxin at all. Range, diet, toxicity, price, and vivarium requirements.

The strawberry poison dart frog carries borrowed poison, comes in dozens of color morphs, and feeds its tadpoles its own eggs. Toxicity, range, and care.

Fire ants, harvester ants, red carpenter ants and velvet ants all get called red ants, and only some of them sting. Size, nest shape and behavior tell you which one is in your yard.

How to identify a leopard frog, tell it apart from the pickerel frog, and handle one safely. Size, range, diet, lifespan, and whether it makes a good pet.