Hunting wild animals has been practised by humans for millions of years; however, the extraction of wildlife for subsistence and commercialisation has become a major biodiversity threat in recent decades. Meanwhile, over-exploitation ...
Ecology
Jan 6, 2020
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Despite COVID-19 restrictions and the risk of animal to human disease transmission, illegal wildlife trade on social media networks has continued, with wild animals sometimes sold as 'lockdown pets'. Researchers from Oxford ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2020
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Avoid or compete, eat or be eaten, exploit or cooperate—biotic communities are shaped by species interactions in many different ways. Urban environments represent a special case as human presence and influence may have ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 23, 2021
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The Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), through the Institute of Conservation and Improvement of Valencian Agrodiversity (COMAV), leads EggPreBreed II, an international project that will help in developing new varieties ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 2, 2020
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Around the world, biodiversity is dropping precipitously. In North America, about three billion birds have been lost over recent decades and amphibian populations are declining at a rate of about four percent per year. Globally, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 10, 2020
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South Korean troops stationed along the world's last Cold War frontier have been put on high alert in the face of a new infiltration threat from the nuclear-armed North—fever-stricken wild boar.
Veterinary medicine
Jun 1, 2019
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Microorganisms living inside and on our body play a crucial role in both the maintenance of our health and the development of disease. Now researchers at UTSA have uncovered evidence about the importance of maintaining physical ...
Ecology
May 11, 2020
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Social bonding between randomly assigned college roommates is not only a human phenomenon, a new study on vampire bats suggests.
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2022
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An international team of marine scientists, led by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and the Center for Coastal Studies in the U.S., has studied the DNA of family groups from four different whale species to estimate ...
Evolution
Aug 31, 2023
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Solitary female bees inspect other nests for signs of danger before making decisions on where to build their own, a new London-based study suggests.
Plants & Animals
Jan 29, 2020
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