The California Current System along the U.S. west coast is among the richest ecosystems in the world, driven by nutrient input from coastal upwelling and supporting a great diversity of marine life. Like coastal regions in ...
Ecology
Oct 28, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has found that Formosan macaque monkeys prefer to keep their "words" short, using long vocalizations only occasionally.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified antibiotic resistance as one of the greatest threats to human health and life. With the alarming rise in antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens and the decline in antibiotic ...
Biotechnology
Dec 29, 2023
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Open ocean sharks are elusive and mysterious. They undertake vast journeys that span hundreds to thousands of kilometers across immense ocean basins. We know very little about the secret lives of ocean sharks, where they ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 31, 2023
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Algorithms can predict what movies or songs you might like, but they can also predict which species a predator would most likely eat.
Ecology
Jul 13, 2023
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They say that good fences make good neighbors, which is especially true when you share space with gray wolves and grizzly bears.
Ecology
Oct 4, 2022
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Researchers in New York City have analyzed the DNA of urban coyotes and discovered that the coyotes eat a variety of native prey species and supplement this diet with human-sourced food items. The study is published in PeerJ.
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2022
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To survive, animals must find nutritious food and drinking water—sometimes during long dry seasons or cold periods—and at the same time avoid being eaten. Plant-eating mammals with hooves are an extraordinarily diverse ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2022
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Prey animals perform a diverse variety of behaviors to escape from predators, but whether specific behaviors are used to escape from predators that represent different types of threat has been long-debated. New research from ...
Ecology
Aug 24, 2021
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Bahamian mosquitofish in habitats fragmented by human activity are more willing to explore their environment, more stressed by change and have smaller brain regions associated with fear response than mosquitofish from unaffected ...
Ecology
Jul 7, 2021
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