There's a cost to 'bee-ing' too smart, professor finds
It doesn't pay to be smart, at least for bumblebees, according to a new U of G study.
It doesn't pay to be smart, at least for bumblebees, according to a new U of G study.
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2017
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Research from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway has found that being smart does not necessarily mean you are bringing home the most bacon, if you are a bumble bee at least.
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2017
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Birds benefit from flocking together—even when they're not of a feather. According to a new study in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, China's endangered Crested Ibises benefit from joining forces with other, more visually-oriented ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2017
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By tagging individual bumblebees with microchips, biologists have gained insights into the daily life of a colony of bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) in unprecedented detail. The team found that while most bees are generalists ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 18, 2017
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California sardine stocks famously crashed in John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row." New research, building on previous since the late 1960s, shows in greater detail that such forage fish stocks have undergone boom-bust cycles for ...
Ecology
Feb 15, 2017
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Endangered penguins are foraging for food in the wrong places due to fishing and climate change, research led by the University of Exeter and the University of Cape Town has revealed.
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2017
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An engineer constructing wells in oil fields and an animal foraging for scarce food in the desert often face a similar dilemma: How long should they look for more of their needed resource before they move on to look elsewhere? ...
General Physics
Feb 3, 2017
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Nonresident seabirds in Central California concentrate their foraging along the continental shelf break, according to a study published January 25, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Anna Studwell who has worked ...
Ecology
Jan 25, 2017
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Just how much forage does a ruminant need if a ruminant does need forage?
Ecology
Nov 24, 2016
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Unique data for forage sorghums, including varying feed values and management needs of different hybrids, is coming out of a Texas A&M AgriLife trial being conducted near Bushland.
Ecology
Oct 27, 2016
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