Search results for Giraffes

Plants & Animals Feb 8, 2023

Heavy necking: New insights into the sex life of giraffes

It can be hard to know if someone is really into you. Sometimes, you get hints—a certain look or smile, a nervous blush or flirtation. Giraffes get none of that.

Ecology Feb 8, 2023

Uganda wildlife numbers soar due to enhanced protection

Uganda's wildlife population has boomed over the past four decades, the wildlife minister said Wednesday, but warned more must be done to save declining species including lions and endangered chimpanzees.

Ecology Feb 2, 2023

Browsing herbivores increase savanna resilience to droughts, study finds

Extreme climate events pose an ever-increasing threat to savannas around the world. However, the ability of these mixed woodland-grassland ecosystems to resist periods of drought can be improved with a higher number of browsing ...

Plants & Animals Jan 31, 2023

Brushtail possums can learn from their peers, researcher finds

Using a $9 dog treat toy, University of Canterbury (UC) Master's student Emma Godfrey has conducted research showing, for the first time, that common brushtail possums can learn from their peers.

Plants & Animals Jan 20, 2023

How the Masai giraffe population has changed over 40 years in Tanzania's Arusha National Park

Giraffes are Tanzania's national animal and beloved around the world. Despite their popularity, however, populations of the Masai giraffe have declined by 50% since the 1980s to about 35,000 individuals, and they are now ...

Astronomy Dec 14, 2022

Astronomers investigate chemical composition of multiple stellar populations in NGC 2808

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have inspected the globular cluster NGC 2808. Results of the study, published December 2 on the arXiv pre-print repository, shed more ...

Ecology Nov 30, 2022

Large terrestrial mammals are more vulnerable to acoustic impact of drones than to visual impact

Large terrestrial mammals are vulnerable to the acoustic sounds of drones, technological systems which are increasingly used to study the wildlife in open habitats such as the savanna and marshes.

Ecology Nov 16, 2022

Niger's threatened giraffes find new home

Conservationists in Niger said on Wednesday they had transferred threatened West African giraffes to a new home 600 kilometres (375 miles) away.

Ecology Nov 12, 2022

Sharks, turtles, disease on agenda of wildlife trade summit

The trade in shark fins, turtles, and other threatened species will come under scrutiny at a global wildlife summit in Panama, starting Monday, that will also focus on the spread of diseases such as COVID-19.

Nanomaterials Nov 9, 2022

Physicists show how tight 'diet' could produce single-chirality carbon nanotubes

Like a giraffe stretching for leaves on a tall tree, making carbon nanotubes reach for food as they grow may lead to a long-sought breakthrough.

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