Like many animals in the far north, snowshoe hares change their coats from brown to white each autumn. Come winter, these all-white hares are harder for predators to spot against the snowy landscape, helping ensure their ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 12, 2023
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Wildlife researchers have completed a study that may settle the question of why, in October 2009, a group of coyotes launched an unprovoked fatal attack on a young woman who was hiking in a Canadian park.
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland, in collaboration with colleagues from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU, Sveriges lantbruks universitet), have published seven draft genomes for Nordic ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 4, 2022
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Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University have published in the journal Molecular Ecology a comprehensive study on the significance of species differences for the most central cell maintenance ...
Evolution
Nov 2, 2022
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Massive incentives for clean energy in the U.S. law signed Tuesday by President Joe Biden should reduce future global warming "not a lot, but not insignificantly either," according to a climate scientist who led an independent ...
Environment
Aug 17, 2022
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Researchers have identified the times of the day when hares are more likely to be struck by aircraft at Dublin airport—and believe their findings may help reduce costly "runway roadkill" incidences around the world.
Ecology
Aug 10, 2022
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A new study in the Journal of Mammalogy shows recently developed camera-trapping methods could be a viable alternative to live-trapping for determining the density of snowshoe hares and potentially other small mammals that ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2022
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Canada has found that despite rising temperatures due to global warming, snowshoe hares with mismatched coats are experiencing reduced mortality rates. They have ...
Wildlife ecologists study what drives animal behavior, and trying to figure it out is tricky. Not only are ecosystems incredibly complex, behaviors are driven by various internal and external factors and the simple observation ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2021
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A UConn Ph.D. candidate and a faculty member have developed a novel way of gathering data about streams fed by groundwater that provide important insights about the possible effects of climate change.
Earth Sciences
Mar 4, 2021
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