Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2019
It's a boy! April the Giraffe gives birth again
April the Giraffe gave birth once again in front of an enthralled YouTube audience on Saturday.
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Plants & Animals
Feb 26, 2019
Human settlements and rainfall affect giraffe home ranges
Giraffes that live close to densely populated towns have larger home ranges than giraffes that live far from towns, according to a new study by an international team of wildlife researchers from the University of Zürich, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 14, 2019
From vibrations alone, acacia ants can tell nibbles from the wind
Acacia trees are a prominent feature of the East African savannah. They're also a classic example of the long-standing and complex relationships between plants and insects, in this case acacia ants. The acacias provide food ...
Ecology
Feb 12, 2019
Spain police seize over 200 stuffed endangered animals
Spanish police said Tuesday they had seized more than 200 stuffed endangered animals, including giraffes, rhinos, lions and tigers, from an illegal taxidermy workshop that was selling them online.
Ecology
Feb 5, 2019
Researchers work to find the giraffe in the bushes
Giraffe are the tallest animal on earth, so naturally scientists have turned to big data solutions for giraffe conservation. Researchers from the Penn State and Wild Nature Institute are conducting one of the biggest large ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 26, 2018
Just like humans, giraffes prefer to dine with friends, study finds
When it comes to meal times in the animal kingdom, giraffes have been found to be just like us and prefer the company of their friends, according to new research by the University of Bristol.
Archaeology
Nov 22, 2018
Human ancestors not to blame for ancient mammal extinctions in Africa
New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to the demise of large mammals in Africa over the last several million years. Instead, the researchers argue that long-term environmental ...
Ecology
Nov 21, 2018
Niger to move protected giraffes as habitat shrinks
Part of a group of a rare giraffes that has become a Niger tourist attraction is to be moved to a reserve 600 kilometres (400 miles) away owing to encroaching desert, farmland and increasing instances of them being struck ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 21, 2018
Capturing the frugal beauty of complex natural tessellations
Surface tessellations are an arrangement of shapes which are tightly fitted, and form repeat patterns on a surface without overlapping. Imagine the pattern of a giraffe's fur, the shell of a tortoise and the honeycomb of ...
Astronomy
Nov 19, 2018
A solar sibling identical to the sun
An international team led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Vardan Adibekyan used a novel method to detect solar siblings. The article was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
