WEIRD ANIMALS
Researchers HAVE found ants are as accurate as dogs in sniffing out cancer but they can be trained in as little as 30 minutes. Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2022 Mar 10 – A fascinating new proof-of-concept study from a team of researchers in …
Bronze, Animal Portraits. Lessons for life. Female puma and her cubs. Chile Amit Eshel. View 27 Images – By Rich Haridy 2022 Mar 08 – In its second year, the World Nature Photography Awards has presented a dazzling array of winning images highlighting the …
MULE TRAIN Wikipedia (CC) – The most unusual delivery method used by the Postal Service is a mule train in Arizona. The mules carry mail, food and supplies down a 9-mile trail to the Havasupai Indians at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. …
Scientists plan a vast global store of aquatic noises to help monitor marine life, identify species – and even uncover regional dialects. The singing ocellaris clownfish shelters among the venomous tentacles of an anemone. Photograph: Hans Gert Broeder/Alamy – The Age of Extinction …
White-tailed deer are one of the few wild species that scientists have found to be infected with the coronavirus – at least so far. Andrew C/WikimediaCommons, CC BY – Authors Sue VandeWoude, University Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology and Director of …
According to researcher Marc-Antoine Fardin, under the right circumstances, cats’ bodies can behave like liquids. Nevena Uzurov/Moment via Getty Images – Authors By Beth Daley, Editor and General Manager and Thalia Plata, Editor Interviewed Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain …
The US Department of Agriculture has been called in to trap and relocate the feisty fowl before they begin nesting. Wild turkeys have been causing trouble at NASA’s Ames Center in Mountain View, California, pecking at cars, blocking traffic and leaving droppings everywhere. …
The Guardian picture essay House of bears: polar bears living in an abandoned weather station in Kolyuchin. Photograph: Dmitry Kokh – Photographer Dmitry Kokh discovered polar bears living in an abandoned weather station in Kolyuchin, in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian …
The longspine squirrelfish is just one of many fishes that has something to say. Depositphotos – By Ben Coxworth 2022 Jan 28 – We generally don’t think of fish as being a vocal bunch – after all, anglers don’t typically use “fish calls” to …
A Bohemian waxwing eating mountain ash berries. Lisa Hupp, USFWS/Flickr Authors: Evan Fricke, Faculty Fellow in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University Alejandro Ordóñez, Assistant Professor of Global Change Biology, Aarhus University Haldre Rogers, Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa …
