Higher Calling Wildlife

Higher Calling Wildlife host was 10 years old when he and his mother visited an exhibit of a bigfoot body at the South Texas State Fair in Beaumont, TX in 1984. He has vivid memories of the display and would like to connect with the people who either created the body. Then again, maybe it was the real thing.

Texas has a native elk population in the Trans Pecos region and most people are not aware of it. There are also however two other small pockets of elk in the state.

People are reporting seeing wild-looking cats throughout America that don't match with native wildlife. Chester Moore shows that many of these are what can be considered exotic or "designer" cats.

Did you know there are multiple feral monkey populations in America? Did you know there have been many reports of orangutan-like animals in Florida and other locations? Could these be linked to the Bigfoot phenomenon? Check out this wild episode of Higher Calling Wildlife.
 

in part two of our discussion with Working Dogs For Conservation, we talk about how canines can be used even to sniff out non-indigenous trout underwater in streams.

Chester Moore interviews Pete Coppolillo from Working Dogs For Conservation about the group's amazing work using dogs for wildlife conservation efforts.

In the final installment of our five-part series, we talk about the future of feral hogs in Texas and beyond.

A great white shark tagged by Capt. Chip Michalove of Outcast Sport Fishing Charters for the Atlantic White Shark Conservatory just showed up 200 yards off the beach at South Padre Island, TX.
 

Chester Moore lays out how javelina have been wiped out of nearly half of their Texas range in less than 100 years and ask an expert if hog toxicants will have an impact on them.

An unsettling case of deer poaching is suburban areas involves a man setting up an account as a female nature photographer and targeting deer in suburban areas. This is one of the most shocking poaching cases on record and it shows the great work done by law enforcement officials from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation.