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Why we give our cats, dogs and other pets social media accounts
3+ week, 3+ day ago (765+ words) Others share their daily lives through pictures of interactions with their companion animals. And the tech industry has responded with new platforms such as Petzbe and other apps and communities for pets and their families. This online behaviour reflects the…...
How ‘positive’ stress could improve the welfare of zoo animals
3+ day, 14+ 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…...
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....
What anglers have taught me about saving England’s sharks
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (725+ words) I spent six days on a small fishing boat in the middle of the English Channel in July trying to catch a thresher shark. The weather was fickle, even at the height of summer. My colleague, ecologist Lucy Hawkes, and…...
How beavers can help create fire breaks as part of a drought preparation plan
5+ day, 14+ 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…...
Why should we care if there aren’t any squished insects on our windscreens?
4+ day, 15+ 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…...
How brainless sea sponges use sunset as a cue to prepare for metamorphosis
1+ week, 1+ day ago (422+ words) Sea sponges are some of the world’s simplest animals – but even so, the rhythm of night and day kicks off a crucial stage of their life cycle....
A court will decide the future of Yuraygir’s feral horses. That matters for native plants and animals
5+ day, 1+ hour 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 we found a new transmissible cancer in bullhead catfish
3+ week, 3+ day ago (822+ words) For more than a decade, anglers on Lake Memphremagog — which straddles the Québec-Vermont border — have been catching brown bullhead catfish marked with distinctive black lesions. In 2019, scientists from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife…...
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…...