Belgium learns to share its beaches with sleepy seals
Visitors to Belgium's coast are having to get used to North Sea visitors not seen for a while—dozens of seals that are using the short sandy coastline as a resting place.
Visitors to Belgium's coast are having to get used to North Sea visitors not seen for a while—dozens of seals that are using the short sandy coastline as a resting place.
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2023
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Humans appear to be one of the only animals capable of speech, which requires a range of skills and mental abilities. Among them, vocal learning—the ability to learn to produce new sounds—is critical for developing language. ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2022
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Wildlife are responding and adapting to climate change in various ways. Some adaptations are more obvious. Flowering plants, for example, are blooming sooner each year in parts of the northern hemisphere as climate change ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 7, 2022
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A baby's cry is a form of communication used to attract attention from adult caregivers, and every baby cries in a similar but distinct way. An international research team has studied the vocal behavior of baby mice, called ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2022
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Open water swimming is not for the fainthearted, especially when air and water temperatures are frigid. So how do furry Weddell seal pups born on the Antarctic sea ice keep on swimming?
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2022
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Hoover the "talking seal" famously imitated human speech. But can baby seals already adapt their voices to sounds? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Free University of Brussels ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2021
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A trio of researchers with Tel Aviv University's School of Zoology has found that newly born Egyptian fruit bats are capable of steering echolocation beams. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...
Inbreeding can reduce cooperation in banded mongooses according to a recent study by researchers.
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2020
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Two endangered Mexican gray wolves housed at the Albuquerque zoo are the proud parents of seven pups, officials announced Tuesday.
Plants & Animals
Jun 10, 2020
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Atlantic grey seals, the largest of the two seal species found around British, northern European and North American and Canadian shores, make a huge maternal sacrifice for their pups, new research has revealed.
Ecology
May 14, 2020
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