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How ‘positive’ stress could improve the welfare of zoo animals
3+ day, 21+ 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…...
Listening to the bush: How AI can help NZ rid its wildnerness of ‘hold-out’ pest possums
2+ week, 6+ day ago (835+ words) Possums are among New Zealand’s most destructive introduced mammals. They damage native forests, prey on wildlife and remain a major target of the country’s Predator Free 2050 programme. But removing most possums from an area through predator control is only part…...
Using a radar satellite to track emperor penguins in winter is changing our understanding of the species
1+ week, 3+ day ago (598+ words) Freely available satellite radar imaging is being used for the first time to help track colonies of endangered emperor penguins in Antarctica throughout the winter months. Typically satellite images need sunlight to be useful, and Antarctica is dark in the…...
Satellite images show how penguins’ diets are changing in response to Antarctic climate change
1+ week, 2+ day ago (696+ words) The color of penguin poop, as seen from space, is offering a new window into how the ecology and the environment of Antarctica are changing over time. Adélie penguins are one of the most abundant predators in the Southern Ocean....
What anglers have taught me about saving England’s sharks
5+ day, 5+ 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…...
From Australia to the Andes, we’re discovering new biodiversity hotspots worldwide
2+ week, 3+ day ago (274+ words) Scientists are discovering previously unknown species in unexpected places, according to a new study....
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…...
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…...
Fish DNA in Ozark streams reveals region’s complex geologic history
2+ week, 5+ day ago (578+ words) My students and I encountered a mystery. We were partnering with the Missouri Department of Conservation to monitor for fish presence and abundance in the Missouri Ozarks. We visited half a dozen rivers and streams across the region and collected…...
How we found Haida Gwaii’s first marbled murrelet nest in more than 30 years
3+ week, 4+ day ago (900+ words) Scrambling through dense salal in the dark, weaving between the majestic western red cedars of northern Haida Gwaii, I could barely imagine where we were just days before — crossing Dixon Entrance off the coast in an open skiff, pushing head-on…...