]New behavioral traits are often the first response of animals to changing environmental conditions. As cities increasingly become habitats of wildlife, researchers have studied behavioral changes in birds and examined how ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 22, 2023
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Our understanding of animal behavior depends on observation. Researchers can study how animals are born, grow and develop. We can gather evidence of how they interact with each other and their environment.
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 21, 2023
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Daurian redstarts move their nesting sites closer to or even inside human settlements when cuckoos are around. In doing so, they actively protect their nest against brood parasitism, as cuckoos avoid human settlements.
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2023
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An Arizona aquarium is celebrating the hatching of three endangered African penguin chicks, saying the tiny additions are genetically valuable as zoos and aquariums around the world work to ensure the species' survival through ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2023
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You lift a stone and staring up at you is a little insect with its tail curled and pincers ready to inflict who knows what. Then you see its attendants—tiny white insects, huddled underneath. Should you drop the stone and ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 30, 2023
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Brown-headed cowbirds are generalist brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of many other bird species and letting the host parents raise their young. A new study seeks to understand the strategies cowbird chicks ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 13, 2022
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Fish rarely feed their young. An exception are certain species of snakeheads whose offspring feed on trophic eggs provided by their parent. A new study shows that this exceptional adaptation developed in snakehead fish around ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2022
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White clover is a weed that grows the world over—there's a good chance you have some growing in your yard today. The plant that yard-preeners love to hate was spawned about 20,000 years ago when two European clover species ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2021
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A California condor egg has hatched in Northern California's wild, the newest member of Pinnacles National Park's recovery program for the endangered species.
Ecology
May 4, 2021
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Flamingo chicks raised by foster parents from another flamingo species develop normally, scientists say.
Plants & Animals
Apr 8, 2021
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