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How ‘positive’ stress could improve the welfare of zoo animals
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (644+ words) Pelicans have resided in St James’s Park, London for 360 years. But the current flock have been a summer sensation due to the first hatching of chicks in the park’s history. Pelican breeding in zoos is demanding for these birds, because…...
Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (657+ words) Squinting through my binoculars, I scanned the dense branches of a black spruce, trying my best to catch a glimpse of the thin legs of a small black, white and yellow songbird. I was on the hunt for a yellow-rumped…...
Why should we care if there aren’t any squished insects on our windscreens?
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (551+ words) This summer you may have wondered why you are seeing so few insects squished on your car’s windscreen, compared to a road trip several years ago. This is because insects are declining globally at an alarming rate. The survey was…...
A court will decide the future of Yuraygir’s feral horses. That matters for native plants and animals
5+ day, 47+ min ago (808+ words) From poems to films and books of history, horses feature widely in Australian popular culture. Feral horses, also known as brumbies, are descendants of domesticated horses that now live and breed independently in the wild. For some people, these horses…...
How beavers can help create fire breaks as part of a drought preparation plan
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (807+ words) Most of the countryside around the Holnicote estate in Somerset has been dry and dusty for most of the summer. But one corner remains conspicuously green. Here in south-west England, an animal that was made extinct in Britain in the…...
Dog parks are an antidote to the isolation and divisions that social media can fuel
1+ week, 1+ day ago (437+ words) The people who stretch a person’s sense of humanity may be the ones no algorithm currently selects....
Early mammals weren’t all loners, as scientists thought – some already lived in pairs alongside the dinosaurs
1+ week, 2+ day ago (740+ words) These early mammals looked like shrews do today. They were small and had a long body, eyes typical for nocturnal mammals and little spiky teeth for eating insects. But they were not shrews. They were the ancestors of all the…...
Your house may be a haven for wildlife. It’s time we design homes with nature in mind
1+ week, 2+ day ago (955+ words) Ever found a bare-nosed wombat napping under your house or heard a possum thumping around in your roof? You’re not alone. Data from Wildlife Victoria reveals that about 2,400 native animals were reported by people as being in, on or under…...
Pyrograzing turns ordinary livestock into fire prevention heroes, so why isn’t it used on public lands more often?
1+ week, 3+ day ago (782+ words) In grasslands across the American West, four-legged fire prevention crews are busy at work, helping keep wildfire risk under control. These cattle, goats and sheep stomp down tall grasses as they munch their way through plants that could otherwise burn,…...
Caterpillar twitches in an ultraquiet chamber are helping biologists understand how these insects hear without ears
1+ week, 3+ day ago (621+ words) In a quiet summer garden, a caterpillar perches on a branch, munching serenely on leaves. A moment later it freezes. It senses danger – and just in time. From behind, a wasp approaches, sizing up its prey. Tobacco hornworm caterpillars don’t…...