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Fish farts, snorting koalas, bonking frogs: How do animals make these crazy sounds?
Animals can make the strangest sounds. Tune into the noises made by some iconic species and find out how they make them.
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Researchers have identified a new pack of endangered gray wolves in California
Researchers are howling with delight after discovering a new pack of endangered gray wolves in California.
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Eating Ourselves Into the Next Pandemic
In the aftermath of COVID-19, it is tempting to characterize pandemics as problems foreign in origin, traced to shadowy wildlife markets and unhygienic conditions. Indeed, such “wet” markets sometimes sell and slaughter wild, exotic animals on site leading to concerns that diseases may spread there across species. Expert calls for global bans on wet markets and the consumption of wildlife have been met with overwhelming approval.
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Lynx facing extinction in France as population drops at most to 150 cats
Urgent action needed as DNA tests show their genetic diversity is so low they could vanish from the country in 30 years
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Health concerns mounting as animals become sick after train derailment
Health concerns are growing in East Palestine as reports rise of animals getting sick and some even dying. The train derailment is causing struggles not just for the animals, but their owners as we…
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Researchers discover secret of building a better wildlife overpass
A group of researchers at the University of British Columbia got to work locating, measuring and then evaluating a number of these overpasses to see how different dimensions impact how effective an overpass is at encouraging wildlife to cross.
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How Crested Geckos Rafted From Australia
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How ants find their way
Insects use a wide range of tools for orientation, including visual memory, smell, and counting steps. The tricky question is how they combine and compute different kinds of inputs, and whether their methods can help us understand more complex brains or create artificial ones. Michael Gross investigates. Bottom of the article, you will be able to find a simulator link for How ants find their way.
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‘Dying of boredom’: the fight to release Thailand’s shopping mall gorilla
Bua Noi has spent decades in a cage in a decaying Bangkok shopping mall. Her owner says is she too old to be transferred to a sanctuary but activists disagree
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Why Chimps and Gorillas Form Rainforest Friendships
In a Congolese national park, great apes of different species interact socially, with individuals clearly recognizing one another.
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Give legal rights to animals, trees and rivers, say experts
Report for Law Society says framework is essential for future interactions with the environment and biotechnology
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Bird flu ‘an urgent warning to move away from factory farming’
Experts claim that deadly spillovers of disease between livestock and wildlife are increasing with the growth in intensive methods
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Coexistence is possible: spotted hyenas exposed to daytime pastoralism do just fine
This blog post is provided by Arjun Dheer and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas
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UK government faces court challenge over ‘Frankenchickens’
Hearing granted for Humane League, which says use of fast-growing chickens breaches welfare rules
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Birds migrate along ancient routes – here are the latest high-tech tools scientists are using to study their amazing journeys
Although it still feels like beach weather across much of North America, billions of birds have started taking wing for one of nature’s great spectacles: fall migration. Birds fly south from the northern U.S. and Canada to wintering grounds in the southern U.S., Caribbean and Latin America, sometimes covering thousands of miles. Other birds leave temperate Eurasia for Africa, tropical Asia or Australia.
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Are octopuses too intelligent to eat?
Oil-crisped tentacles, paper-thin carpaccio and octopus meat plump from slow-cooking have been popping up on restaurant menus across the country, where the long-time Mediterranean ‘superfood’ is fast being adopted as the British gourmand’s dinner-plate darling. What was once an exotic holiday meal is now consumed to the tune of 1,300 tons per year in the UK, up 12-fold since 1990. In the decade to 2019, the global trade doubled to a value of more than £2 billion.
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A plane of monkeys, a pandemic, and a botched deal: inside the science crisis you’ve never heard of
Experts say there’s a dire shortage of primates for biomedical research—and it’s putting human lives at risk.
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Cheetahs to prowl India for first time in 70 years
The mammals are coming from Namibia in a deal that has been in negotiations since 2020.
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Endangered red wolf populations could be revived with 'ghost' genes from coyotes, scientists say
Scientists are hopeful that the endangered red wolf population could be revived now that a significant portion of its DNA has been found in wild coyote populations.
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Top predators could 'trap' themselves trying to adapt to climate change, study shows
As climate change alters environments across the globe, scientists have discovered that in response, many species are shifting the timing of major life events, such as reproduction.
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