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The endangered southern resident killer whale. (NOAA Fisheries/National Marine Fisheries Service) If Puget Sound has an animal celebrity, it’s the orca — specifically, the southern resident population of killer whales. About 70 individuals divided into three family groups, or pods, make their home in our waters for large parts of the year. Fans from all over the world follow every movement of the southern residents; they mourn every whale death; they rejoice when a new calf joins a pod. These camper-van-sized whales subsist almost entirely on salmon, which they hunt in the murky sea, usin...

A coyote captured in the region by Seattle Urban Carnivore Project camera traps. (Seattle Urban Carnivore Project) It’s no secret that Washington state is home to many charismatic carnivores — wolverines, bobcats, cougars and bears (oh my!). But it might come as a surprise that plenty of them live in our backyards, literally. For years, healthy populations of coyotes, raccoons, bobcats and otters all have resided within Seattle city limits, while cougars and black bears haunt the suburbs and exurbs (though sometimes a cougar finds its way into Discovery Park). But with the pandemic drasti...