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Singing mice help scientists understand fast-paced human conversation
Mar 01, 2019 (UPI)
Alston singing mice are found in the remote cloud forests of Costa Rica. When a pair of male mice meet, the two sing a back-and-forth operatic duet. The outside...
Conservationists release 155 giant tortoises on Galapagos island
Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)
The young tortoises, of the breed Chelonoidis hoodensis, were set free on Santa Fe island, the Galapagos National Park service announced. The tortoises, each ag...
Smugglers arrested in Malaysia with over 3,000 rare turtles
Feb 27, 2019 (AFP)
Malaysia has in recent years developed a reputation as a transit point for trafficked animals. This haul comes two weeks after authorities seized a record 30 to...
Wild carnivores are making a comeback in Britain
Feb 26, 2019 (UPI)
Populations of badgers, foxes, otters, pine martens, polecats, stoats and weasels are all growing. Only wildcats continue to struggle. Hunting, trapping, pollut...
Origins of giant extinct New Zealand bird traced to Africa
Feb 25, 2019 (SPX)
Led by the University of Adelaide, the research in the journal Diversity showed that among the closest living relatives of the New Zealand adzebills - which wei...
Dogs' personalities can change, research suggests
Feb 25, 2019 (UPI)
Now, new findings out of Michigan State University suggest dogs' personalities change over time. Life-changing events can transform human personalities. The res...
World's biggest bee, thought extinct, rediscovered in Indonesia
Feb 21, 2019 (UPI)
After several days of searching termite mounds in the heavy heat of the tropical island forests, a group of North American and Australian entomologists found a ...
Worms help scientists understand memory formation and recall
Feb 21, 2019 (UPI)
Memory blocking, or Kamin blocking, describes an animal's inability to replace an old memory cue with a new one if the new cue is presented at the same time as ...
Botswana mulls proposal to lift hunting ban
Feb 21, 2019 (AFP)
The controversial proposals, which must be debated by cabinet before becoming law, would overturn a hunting ban that was introduced in 2014 to reverse a decline...
Diversity on land is not higher today than in the past
Feb 20, 2019 (SPX)
According to a new study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham and involving an international team of collaborators, the number of species within e...
Tanzania jails Chinese 'Ivory Queen' trafficker for 15 years
Feb 19, 2019 (AFP)
Yang Fenlan, 69, was convicted in Dar es Salaam of trafficking 860 tusks between 2000 and 2014, a haul representing the slaughter of dozens of herds of elephant...
Germany moots tougher insect protections
Feb 17, 2019 (AFP)
"We human beings need insects, they deserve to be protected with their own law," Environment Minister Svenja Schulze told weekly Bild am Sonntag. Her "action pl...
Runner recounts killing mountain lion in 'fight for survival'
Feb 15, 2019 (AFP)
"One of the thoughts that I was having was: 'Well this would be a pretty crappy way to die'," Travis Kauffman told reporters in his first public comments about ...
Hong Kong seizes $1m of rhino horn in record airport haul
Feb 15, 2019 (AFP)
The haul -- worth some HK$8 million ($1 million) -- was transported brazenly through the terminal in two cardboard boxes, the customs department said. The pair ...
Danish economist picked to be new UN environment chief
Feb 15, 2019 (AFP)
Andersen, who heads the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), is set to succeed Erik Solheim of Norway, who resigned in November amid an outcry...
US judge rules against butterfly sanctuary opposed to Trump's wall
Feb 15, 2019 (AFP)
For months the National Butterfly Center has been arguing that the wall would be devastating for those insects and other creatures living in this habitat in the...
Planned hippo cull in Zambia sparks fury
Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)
An official at the tourism ministry, who did not want to be named, said a five-year cull of hippos in a park in eastern Zambia would start in May. "Currently th...
New tarantula species discovered with horn-like feature on its back
Feb 12, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists identified the new species while carrying out the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, an effort to describe the biodiversity within the ...
Toward automated animal identification in wildlife research
Feb 12, 2019 (SPX)
"Many researchers need to identify and collect data on specific individuals in their work, for example to estimate survival, reproduction, and movement," said D...
Malaysia makes record 30-tonne pangolin seizure
Feb 12, 2019 (AFP)
The haul included about 1,800 boxes full of frozen pangolins stuffed inside three refrigerated containers, 572 more frozen pangolins in six freezers, 61 live pa...
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