Duck species in Finland are faring poorly, with more than half of the species listed as threatened to a varying degree, with alien predators as one of the suspected causes.
Plants & Animals
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In 1993, Stanford University biology professor Deborah Gordon and her first graduate student, Katy Human, began a survey of ants at Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Nearly 30 years, four more graduate students ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 5, 2021
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Scientists working to bring back the functionally extinct northern white rhino announced they had successfully created three additional embryos of the subspecies, bringing the total to 12.
Plants & Animals
Jul 30, 2021
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It's good to have friends.
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2021
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Burnout. It is a syndrome that is said to afflict humans who feel chronic stress. But after conducting a novel study using trail cameras showing the interactions between white-tailed deer fawns and predators, a Penn State ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 15, 2021
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Bahamian mosquitofish in habitats fragmented by human activity are more willing to explore their environment, more stressed by change and have smaller brain regions associated with fear response than mosquitofish from unaffected ...
Ecology
Jul 7, 2021
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How do predators know to avoid brightly-colored toxic prey? A collaboration of researchers has put social information theory to the test in a reliable real-world system to find the answer—by copying what others do, or do ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 7, 2021
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Bite marks, in the form of traces left on bones by the teeth of scavengers or predators, are not uncommon in the fossil record. These marks are sometimes impressively large. What they show is that carnivores of the past, ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 30, 2021
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What makes a successful invasion? What keeps invaders out? Are some geographic locations more vulnerable to invasion than others?
Ecology
Jun 26, 2021
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A team of researchers from the University of Florida and Arizona State University has found that removing black stripes on male jumping spiders does not increase their chances of being captured by prey. In their paper published ...
