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Polar bear kills man in Arctic Svalbard
Aug 28, 2020 (AFP)
According to experts, the shrinking icecap has reduced the polar bears' preferred seal hunting grounds, pushing them to approach populated areas in their search...
Swiss to ban foreign trophy hunters from killing Alpine ibex
Aug 28, 2020 (AFP)
The southern Swiss canton of Wallis, the only one to allow the trophy hunting, said in a statement that as of next year, foreigners would no longer be granted p...
Neurons can fuse, cause behavioral changes in nematodes
Aug 27, 2020 (UPI)
Until now, most researchers assumed nerve cells remained separate, but scientists at the University of Queensland successfully engineered nematode worms to expr...
Tropical songbirds stop breeding to survive drought
Aug 24, 2020 (AFP)
Species with longer lifespans were better able to cope with this environmental volatility than previously thought, researchers found. With more record hot spell...
Incredible mobility of flying foxes complicates conservation efforts
Aug 21, 2020 (UPI)
According to a study published Friday in the journal BMC Biology, the extraordinary mobility of flying foxes makes management and conservation efforts especiall...
Fruit flies reveal first known social cue of safety
Aug 21, 2020 (UPI)
But the safety of a crowd isn't simply a numbers game. Herding or schooling behavior allows animals to take advantage of social cues. Until now, scientists had ...
Long 'lost' elephant shrew found in Horn of Africa
Aug 18, 2020 (AFP)
But the tiny mammal with its probing trunk-like nose was quietly thriving in the arid, rocky landscape of the Horn of Africa, researchers said Tuesday. The elus...
In rewilding Europe, letting nature do the work is no walk in the park
Aug 18, 2020 (AFP)
The Grand Barry nature reserve in France's southeastern corner is undertaking one of Europe's largest experiments in rewilding. At a time when reforestation pro...
'Keep your paws crossed!' US National Zoo giant panda pregnant
Aug 17, 2020 (AFP)
"Keep your paws crossed!" the US capital's zoo said on its Twitter feed. It said that veterinarians had detected a fetus during an ultrasound of the 22-year-old...
Bird, reptile tears similar to human tears, study says
Aug 13, 2020 (UPI)
The study, published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science, also identified key differences and could help scientists better understand the ev...
Male frog in Brazil loyal to two females during breeding season
Aug 12, 2020 (UPI)
The discovery, described Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, marks the first time biologists have observed a male frog offering his companionship and loy...
Math models developed by Alan Turing help scientists explain bird behavior
Aug 11, 2020 (UPI)
Many birds form what are called home range patterns, but scientists have struggled to explain why non-territorial passerine segregate themselves. For the study,...
Botswana elephant deaths tests inconclusive but poisoning not ruled out
Aug 07, 2020 (AFP)
The landlocked southern African country has the world's largest elephant population, estimated to be about 130,000. Around 300 of them have been found dead sinc...
Herbivores at greater risk of extinction than carnivores
Aug 06, 2020 (UPI)
For the study, published in the journal Science Advances, researchers organized and analyzed previously collected data on the extinction risk and diets of thous...
Remote islands: Stepping stones to understanding evolution
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
Recently, cutting-edge techniques in DNA sequencing, 3D imaging, and computation have opened up opportunities for investigating historical processes. In a new s...
Leopards, wolves vanishing from panda conservation areas: study
Aug 03, 2020 (AFP)
The giant panda has won the hearts of animal lovers around the world and images of the bamboo-eating creature with its ink-blot eye patches have come to represe...
Dogs process speech hierarchically, just like humans
Aug 03, 2020 (UPI)
But until now, researchers weren't exactly sure how dog brains process humans words and voice. New findings, published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports,...
How mosquitoes got their taste for human blood and what it means for the future
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
"Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are invasive across the global tropics, where a strong preference for human hosts and habitats makes them important disease vectors," ...
Natural toxins killed 100s of Botswana elephants; SAfrica cuts rhino poaching by half
Jul 31, 2020 (AFP)
The landlocked southern African country has the world's largest elephant population, estimated to be around 130,000. Around 300 of them have been found dying si...
Uganda court jails killer of mountain gorilla for 11 years
Jul 30, 2020 (AFP)
The Silverback gorilla, named Rafiki -- which means "friend" in Swahili -- was believed to be around 25 years old. He was found dead last month from a spear wou...
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