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Why we give our cats, dogs and other pets social media accounts
3+ week, 4+ 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…...
Dog parks are an antidote to the isolation and divisions that social media can fuel
1+ week, 2+ 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
5+ day, 10+ 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…...
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…...
How ‘positive’ stress could improve the welfare of zoo animals
4+ day, 3+ 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…...
Bees view the world in surprisingly different ways – understanding this could inspire new technology
1+ week, 5+ day ago (733+ words) One bee has long been regarded as a benchmark for visual performance: the honeybee drone. Honeybees have dominated research on bee vision for more than a century. But some of the most impressive visual performances measured in our new study…...
How brainless sea sponges use sunset as a cue to prepare for metamorphosis
1+ week, 2+ 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....
Caterpillar twitches in an ultraquiet chamber are helping biologists understand how these insects hear without ears
1+ week, 4+ 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…...
How beavers can help create fire breaks as part of a drought preparation plan
6+ day, 3+ 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…...
A court will decide the future of Yuraygir’s feral horses. That matters for native plants and animals
5+ day, 14+ 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…...