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Uproar as Norway paves way for hunting wolves
Mar 03, 2017 (AFP)
Norway's government on Friday paved the way for recreational hunting of wolves, a policy reversal that incensed green campaigners seeking to protect the endange...
Woolly mammoths experienced a genomic meltdown just before extinction
Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)
Dwindling populations created a "mutational meltdown" in the genomes of the last wooly mammoths, which had survived on an isolated island until a few thousand y...
Study explains why the panda is black and white
Mar 03, 2017 (UPI)
New research suggests the panda's black and white patterns serve two main functions -- camouflage and communication. "Understanding why the giant panda has such...
Elephants are insomniacs, sleeping just 2 hours a night
Mar 01, 2017 (AFP)
Elephants hardly ever sleep in the wild, getting around two hours of shut-eye per night and only in the wee hours of the morning, researchers said Wednesday. Th...
Recovering predators and prey
Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)
If you build it, they will come. That's historically been a common approach to species recovery: Grow the prey population first and predators will quickly retur...
Dogs, toddlers show similarities in social intelligence
Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)
Most dog owners will tell you they consider their beloved pets to be members of their families. Now new research suggests that dogs may be even more like us tha...
South Africa rhino poaching dips, stays above 1,000
Feb 27, 2017 (AFP)
Poachers killed 1,054 South African rhinos for their horns in 2016, a 10 percent dip on a year earlier, the environment ministry said Monday, as officials strug...
Wintering ducks connect isolated wetlands by dispersing plant seeds
Feb 24, 2017 (SPX)
Plant populations in wetland areas face increasing isolation as wetlands are globally under threat from habitat loss and fragmentation. Erik Kleyheeg and Merel ...
Ants stomp, termites tiptoe: Predator detection by a cryptic prey
Feb 24, 2017 (SPX)
Termites and ants are mortal enemies, their predator-prey relationship dating back into the Miocene. Both armies, if they come into contact, will fight to the d...
Bees can learn to roll a ball for food: study
Feb 23, 2017 (AFP)
Entice them with a sweet reward and bumblebees can be trained to roll a ball into a goal, revealing unexpectedly complex learning abilities for an insect, resea...
Those who help each other can invade harsher environments
Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)
Through cooperation, animals are able to colonise harsher living environments that would otherwise be inaccessible, according to a new study from Lund Universit...
Bye Bye, Bao Bao: Panda leaves Washington for China
Feb 21, 2017 (AFP)
One of Washington's most popular residents left town on Tuesday: Bao Bao, the National Zoo's uber-popular young female panda, headed to her new home in China. B...
Japan zoo culls 57 monkeys carrying 'invasive' genes
Feb 21, 2017 (AFP)
A Japanese zoo has culled 57 native snow monkeys by lethal injection after finding that they carried genes of an "invasive alien species", officials said Tuesda...
Gabon's forest elephants slain for ivory at alarming rate
Feb 20, 2017 (AFP)
Poachers are killing elephants for their ivory at an alarming rate in the central African nation of Gabon, leading to a loss of 80 percent of the population in ...
Decline of grass threatens world's most endangered antelope
Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)
University of Wyoming researchers took a big step toward solving the mystery of the decline of hirola, a rare African antelope, conducting wildlife research in ...
How ants find their way in the desert
Feb 17, 2017 (UPI)
How do animals navigate featureless landscapes like a desert? To find out, researchers decided to study one of the most efficient navigators in the natural worl...
Scientists find surprising harmony among cats and dogs in India
Feb 16, 2017 (UPI)
Large cats and wild dogs don't typically get along. When possible, they keep their distance, operating in their own ecological niches. But in India, ecologists ...
Indonesian orangutan brutally killed and eaten
Feb 16, 2017 (AFP)
A critically endangered Bornean orangutan has been shot dead, hacked to pieces and eaten by workers after straying onto an Indonesian palm oil plantation, polic...
How evolution alters biological invasions
Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)
Biological invasions pose major threats to biodiversity, but little is known about how evolution might alter their impacts over time. Now, Rutgers University sc...
Geneticists reveal how parenting rewires the beetle brain
Feb 14, 2017 (UPI)
In a new study, a team of geneticists at the University of Georgia showed how parenting transforms the brain of burying beetles. Their experiments showed the ac...
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