Numerous young seal pups are venturing onto Oregon beaches, where they are at-risk from well-meaning coastal visitors who mistakenly try to rescue them.
Plants & Animals
May 23, 2014
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A team of researchers working at Harvard University has found that a certain type of neuron in a certain part of the mouse brain is responsible for governing parental behavior. In their paper published in the journal Nature, ...
Trauma can scar people so indelibly that their children are affected. History provides examples of generations traumatized by war and starvation whose children experience altered physiology. Emory University researchers Kerry ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2014
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For visitors to Michigan's Isle Royale National Park, nothing beats the spine-tingling thrill of a wolf's howl piercing an otherwise silent night—or a glimpse of the wily beast slipping across a forest path. But such experiences ...
Ecology
Dec 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers working for the National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center has found that Weddell seal pups have proportionally, the largest brains at birth of ...
A seal pup was found in a forest in eastern Sweden on Sunday almost six kilometres (four miles) from the closest body of open water, raising questions as to how it got there, Swedish media reported.
Plants & Animals
Mar 24, 2013
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Sexually naïve male mice respond differently to the chemical signals emitted by newborn pups than males that have mated and lived with pregnant females, according to a study published March 20 in The Journal of Neuroscience. ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2013
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Researchers at Japan's Kanazawa University have proven the existence of communicative signalling from female mice that induces male parental behavior.
Plants & Animals
Feb 25, 2013
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Some grey seal mums adopt risky tactics when it comes to the future of their young, a strategy that can give their pup a real advantage, according to scientists.
Plants & Animals
Nov 20, 2012
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(AP) -- Eight rare Mexican wolf pups have been born at a preserve in the New York City suburbs, a development that could aid the federal program that has reintroduced the endangered species to the wild.
Ecology
May 8, 2012
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