Sara Edwards, Author at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge

The Conflict Between Humans and Cougars

The cougar – also known as the mountain lion, puma, panther and more – once roamed throughout the Americas, from […]

Sexual dimorphism, as defined by the Merriam Webster’s dictionary, means “a condition of having the two sexes markedly dissimilar in […]

You may have heard of an animal called the Tasmanian tiger. But this is not a tiger at all. It’s […]

When thinking of an animal that represents a country, many people might picture iconic creatures like the bald eagle for […]

Tomorrow, May 11th, is Mother’s Day. Many of the species we have here at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge are some […]

Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge is currently home to 8 species of felines (as well as 4 types of feline hybrids). […]

Naturalists and conservationists play a crucial role in protecting the world’s most elusive and endangered species, and tigers are no […]

History Spyke was a melanistic (black) leopard born to Santania and Zambo who were rescued in 2008 from a private […]

Here at Turpentine Creek, our animals eat A LOT. We run through about 600 pounds of meat a day here! […]

Today, we’ll be focusing on servals – an incredible cat that not everyone may have heard of but faces many […]