1.   Wildlife officer Malcolm Ingham with two-year-old barn owl Zuky, a permanent resident at the Wirral park.

2.   At schools near Boulder, for example, wildlife officers teach schoolchildren how to be lion savvy and make themselves imposing, should they encounter a wild feline.

3.   Bears get two strikes, so wildlife officers recently have had to kill several bears on their second strike.

4.   A linguist and an off-duty wildlife officer gathered samples of whale meat ahead of time.

5.   A wildlife officer from the Arizona Game and Fish Department, who was dispatched to the scene, said the elk was in terrible shape.

6.   But that approach is now being questioned by the state wildlife officers who are supposed to enforce it.

7.   Cute as they are, when chimpanzees are rescued from smugglers, they become an instant burden for wildlife officers.

8.   David Martinez turned out to be a wildlife conservation officer who worked with endangered species.

9.   Eventually, Schmidt, the wildlife officer, began firing the BB gun, hoping to frighten the bear out of the tree and back into the mountains.