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Lions maul man to death at South African game reserve
Mar 08, 2021 (AFP)
The 27-year-old game tracking specialist, Malibongwe Mfila, was tracking wildlife on Saturday including elephants and lions in order to advise guides on plannin...
Climate disasters prompt Australia's first platypus refuge
Mar 04, 2021 (AFP)
Taronga Zoo announced it will build the facility in Dubbo, five hours northwest of Sydney, to provide emergency care to the river-dwelling, duck-billed mammals ...
Study finds fewer butterflies in landscapes of the American West
Mar 04, 2021 (UPI)
In a new study, published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers compiled butterfly numbers for a variety landscapes across the West. According to the dat...
Frogs use their lungs to drown out the mating calls of other species
Mar 04, 2021 (UPI)
The new findings, published Thursday in the journal Current Biology, help explain how females are able to home in on the songs of individual male frogs. Mating ...
Galapagos island gets 36 endangered giant tortoises
Mar 04, 2021 (AFP)
The Galapagos National Park said the 36 creatures were freed on the northeastern part of San Cristobal island, where an estimated 6,700 giant tortoises roam fre...
Hong Kong, wildlife and data: What to watch at China's annual congress
Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)
The following are major pieces of planned or potential legislation. Submitted proposals are nearly always approved overwhelmingly by the pliant chamber. - Hong ...
Wild, 'destructive' pigs help cultivate biodiversity in their native rainforests
Mar 03, 2021 (UPI)
In the United States, wild hogs are responsible for $1.5 billion in damages every year, mostly by destroying crops. Occasionally, angry farmers attempt to neutr...
Simple tweaks helped the trap-jaw ant evolve its powerful bite
Mar 02, 2021 (UPI)
Today, the mandibles of trap-jaw ants take many forms, suggesting a tremendous level of anatomical sophistication, the origins of which have remained elusive --...
Climate change threatens food chains, top predators
Mar 01, 2021 (UPI)
For the study, researchers at the University of Exeter and Queen Mary University of London measured the effects of temperature on the movement of energy from si...
Study: Dogs may show grief when fellow canine dies
Feb 24, 2021 (UPI)
The goal of the study published in Scientific Reports on Thursday was to quantify grief-related reactions in the loss of a companion dog in the Italian pet dog ...
Locked-down pub becomes Ireland's first wildlife hospital
Feb 21, 2021 (AFP)
The bar of the Tara Na Ri pub in County Meath to the northwest of Dublin is now deserted, the blinds pulled down, the Guinness taps dry and the till empty. But ...
World's oldest DNA reveals new mammoth lineage
Feb 17, 2021 (UPI)
Scientists recovered and sequenced DNA from the teeth of three mammoth specimens preserved in the permafrost of eastern Siberia. Using the latest genomic sequen...
Scientists and indigenous people unite to save Colombian condor
Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)
As this scene plays out, a hidden camera clicks into gear to record the ritual. Amongst a group of some 300 volunteers, many of them indigenous people like Quir...
Eight-year study shows lead poisoning in nearly half of U.S. bald eagles
Feb 17, 2021 (UPI)
The study, "Demographic Implications of Lead Poisoning for Eagles Across North America," shows population-level lead poisoning of eagles on a wide scale. The st...
Lemurs prove more than one biochemical recipe for monogamous pairing
Feb 12, 2021 (UPI)
The research, published Friday in the journal Scientific Reports, suggest there are multiple biochemical recipes of monogamous love. The vast majority of bird s...
Lost birds can use Earth's magnetic signature to get back on track
Feb 12, 2021 (UPI)
It turns out, magnetic field lines don't just act like guard rails or straight-line guides for a bird's migration path, they can also help birds that wander off...
Scientists teach pigs to play video game, showing behavioral, mental flexibility
Feb 11, 2021 (UPI)
When researchers at Purdue University trained four pigs to play a simple joystick video game, they were surprised how quickly the animals took to the game, desp...
To keep backyard animals safe from cats, offer more meat and play
Feb 11, 2021 (UPI)
To keep small birds, mammals and reptiles safe from local cats, new research suggests caretakers offer their feline friends a diet rich in meat proteins and ple...
More detailed dog reference genome to aid studies of heritable diseases
Feb 10, 2021 (UPI)
The new reference genome measures 2.8 gigabases in length, which means the sequence contains 2.8 billion base pairs. Each base pair features two complementary D...
Hiking surge leaves wild cows starving on Hong Kong island
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
The animals have made their home for generations alongside a few dozen fishing families on Grass Island, one of Hong Kong's far-flung islets. Named for its verd...
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