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Eyes in the sky: why drones are ‘beyond effective’ for animal rights campaigners around the world
Inexpensive and easy to use, drones are proving invaluable for activists monitoring illegal fishing, hunting and deforestation – as well as keeping tabs on zoos and aquariums
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Shy female kangaroos have fewer 'friends' but gather in larger groups than bolder individuals
Making friends and acquaintances is not a random act for kangaroos, instead they actively choose who they mix with and how often. Female eastern grey kangaroos have been shown to spend time with some other females while avoiding others altogether. Kangaroos live in a fission-fusion society, characterised by frequent changes of group membership, with individuals moving between temporary feeding groups and switching groups many times a day.
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The Wetsuit That Keeps Away Sharks
A team of Australian researchers want to protect surfers by dressing them in zebra stripes.
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What Could Live in a Real Jurassic World? A Chickenosaurus
Reviving dinosaurs from ancient DNA will never happen, but real-life genetic engineering is turning birds more dino-like.
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How bears keep their bones strong during hibernation
Animals protect their skeletons through suppressed but balanced bone remodeling.
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Bumblebee population struggling due to climate change, says study
An extensive new study suggests climate change is also killing off the bees.
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Red-Eyed Magpies, White-Speckled Ravens & Other Birds of Unusual Feathers
“This here is my favorite cabinet,” Hein van Grouw tells me as we walk around the back rooms of the Natural History Museum at Tring, 30 miles northwest of London as the crow flies. He pulls the steel double-doors open, revealing a menagerie of stuffed birds. On the top shelves there are snipes, rails, and pigeons. Below them are thrushes and blackbirds…
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Kiwi Birds Unable To See Color After Adapting Nocturnal Lifestyle
Having to survive in the dark, New Zealand kiwis adapted, subbing out the development of certain genes related to sight and enhancing others more useful to nocturnal living.
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Scarlet Ibis
The Scarlet ibis lives in the northern part of South America. It can be found in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela including Guyana and French Guyana) and along the coast of Brazil to the Amazon Delta.
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Bats Successfully Treated for White-Nose Syndrome Released Back into the Wild
For the first time, scientists have successfully treated bats infected with White-Nose Syndrome.
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Flamingo Facts: Food Turns Feathers Pink
Flamingos are large birds with long necks, sticklike legs and pink or reddish feathers. The colors of the feathers come from pigments found in their food.
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Amazing Facts About Eagles
Amazing facts about Eagles such as behaviour, intelligence, physical, diet, life span, size, weight, habitat, range and latin name.
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Disabled chicken to get prosthetic leg at Tufts
Some folks looking at a disabled young chicken might think: General Tso. Andrea Martin figured out a way to get the hen fitted with a prosthetic leg.
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Science FTW! Researchers Taught This Gorilla Sign Language And He Immediately Came Out As Gay To His Father
Scientists at the San Diego Zoo have made a tremendous leap forward. After working for over three years with a 270-pound gorilla named Sampson, researchers say he is now able to fully express over 1,500 signs of modified sign language and has even come out as a homosexual to his father!
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Humboldt Penguin
The Humboldt penguin is a medium-sized species of penguin that is found breeding on the coasts of South America.
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White sky at night not a city bird's delight
GrrlScientist: Free-living songbirds show increased stress hormone levels when nesting under white street lights. But different light spectra may have different physiological effects as this study finds, suggesting that using street lights with specific colour spectra may mitigate effects of light pollution on wildlife.
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Squirrels Take Up Bird Alarms To Foil The Enemy
It can take more than just a keen ear to figure out what animals are saying. Sometimes, scientists are learning, you have to talk back to map the rich networks of conversation in a forest.
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Predator Numbers Don't Always Increase with Prey
Rather than predators rising in number to match the available prey, predator populations are limited by the rate at which prey reproduce.
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What is the Difference Between Reindeer and Caribou?
The two are the same species and live in the same areas, so why the two different names?
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How Island Birds Got Their Groove
Species that live on small islands often barely resemble their mainland kin, thanks to evolution.
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