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Global extinction threat may be much higher than previously thought
Jul 19, 2021 (UPI)
An international team of researchers surveyed a "large and diverse group" of biodiversity experts from around the world "who collectively study all major taxa a...
Carbon emissions from wild pigs uprooting soil equal to more than 1M cars
Jul 19, 2021 (UPI)
An international team of researchers said in the study, published Monday in the journal Global Change Biology, that most of the Earth's carbon is stored in soil...
Urban environments prompt fruit bats to diversify diet, study says
Jul 19, 2021 (UPI)
Tel Aviv University researchers found fruit bats explored more when foraging in urban environments, which have a higher diversity of fruit trees than rural ones...
Social ties among spotted hyenas passed down from generation to generation
Jul 15, 2021 (UPI)
The study -- published Thursday in the journal Science -- began with a theoretical model based on the idea that offspring inherit social ties from their parents...
Water fleas demonstrate rapid evolution in response to predation
Jul 14, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study, water fleas can enact evolutionary changes within just two generations. Scientists sequenced the genes of water flea generations spann...
To track elephants, scientists keep an ear to the ground
Jul 13, 2021 (AFP)
African elephants not only make their presence known with a resounding trumpet, they also create powerful "rumbles" with their vocal chords that are at such a l...
'Red Dead Redemption 2' video game teaches players about wildlife
Jul 09, 2021 (UPI)
Players of Red Dead Redemption 2, or RDR2, which is set in the American West in 1899, witness up 200 animal species. For the new study, published Friday in the ...
Chinese rogue elephant herd's breakaway male sent home
Jul 08, 2021 (AFP)
He was part of a herd of Asian elephants that has spent months rambling across the province, travelling over 500 kilometres (310 miles) from the nature reserve ...
China seizes two tonnes of smuggled pangolin scales
Jul 07, 2021 (AFP)
Two suspects were detained in the city of Yulin in Guangxi by customs officers, who also seized two kilograms of pangolin paws, the People's Daily said Tuesday....
Fecal analysis reveals snow leopard stress levels
Jul 07, 2021 (UPI)
Environmental stressors, like rising temperatures, disappearing glaciers and poaching, can negatively impact snow leopard health. To monitor the hormonal stress...
Kenya concern over UK elephant 'rewilding' project
Jul 07, 2021 (AFP)
The Aspinall Foundation said it plans to take the elephants on a Boeing 747, dubbed the Dumbo jet, from southern England to their new home 7,000 kilometres (4,5...
Finland rallies to save one of world's most endangered seals
Jul 07, 2021 (AFP)
Despite seeing numbers recover in recent decades, the Saimaa ringed seal still faces extinction amid climate change and die-hard fishing habits. Out on Saimaa, ...
Dumbo jet: UK elephants head to the wild in Kenya
Jul 06, 2021 (AFP)
The Aspinall Foundation said it would use specially built crates aboard a Boeing 747, dubbed the Dumbo jet, to take the 13 pachyderms from their current home ne...
Cambodian PM orders return of defanged lion to Chinese owner
Jul 05, 2021 (AFP)
The 18-month-old cub, weighing 70 kilograms (154 pounds), had been imported from overseas, officials said. It was raised by its owner, a Chinese national, who n...
Climate change, not humans, fueled decline of prehistoric elephants, mammoths
Jul 01, 2021 (UPI)
For decades, hunter gatherers have served as the primary suspect in the case of the planet's disappeared megafauna. After all, their descendants, modern humans,...
Elephants led to safety after Bangladesh beach ordeal
Jun 30, 2021 (AFP)
Separated from the rest of their herd, the male and female elephants waded across a river marking the border on Saturday, officials said. Dwindling forests stra...
Captive-bred gorillas give birth in the wild: zoos
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
The baby gorilla is thought to have been delivered on the night of June 13 in the Bateke Plateau National Park in the southeast of Gabon in central Africa. Its ...
Captive-bred gorillas give birth in the wild: zoo
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
The baby gorilla is thought to have been born on the night of June 13 in the Bateke Plateau National Park in the southeast of Gabon in central Africa. The baby'...
Study: Songbirds unlikely to become dependent on bird feeders
Jun 28, 2021 (UPI)
The latest findings, published Monday in the Journal of Avian Biology, suggest small songbirds are unlikely to become reliant on the offerings of backyard bird ...
France bans glue trapping of birds after EU court ruling
Jun 28, 2021 (AFP)
The State Council's move comes after the EU Court of Justice said in March that using so-called glue traps caused "irreparable harm" to the thrushes and blackbi...
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