Remote camera network tracks Antarctic species at low cost
An international research team has developed a simple method for using a network of autonomous time-lapse cameras to track the breeding and population dynamics...
The mystery of lime-green lizard blood
Green blood is one of the most unusual characteristics in the animal kingdom, but it's the hallmark of a group of lizards in New...
The survival of sea birds affected by ocean cycles
Several ocean cycles, such as the El Niño phenomenon, occur in the Pacific ocean and have climatic repercussions around the globe (e.g. intense rains...
Hippo waste causes fish kills in Africa’s Mara River
Ecologists have long known that agricultural and sewage pollution can cause low oxygen conditions and fish kills in rivers. A study published in Nature Communications reports...
Small birds almost overheat while feeding their young
For decades, researchers have thought that access to food determined the brood size of birds. Now, biologists at Lund University in Sweden have discovered...
Wildfires may cause long-term health problems for orangutans
Orangutans, already critically endangered due to habitat loss from logging and large-scale farming, may face another threat in the form of smoke from natural...
Leopard meals: Females go for diversity
Leopards, top predators of the African savannah, are known to feed on a variety of prey species. These include smaller and medium-sized mammals such...
Darwin’s finches, where did they actually come from?
In 1835, Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands and discovered a group of birds that would shape his groundbreaking theory of natural selection. Darwin's...
For lemurs size of forest fragments is important
Occurrence probability of three lemur species in tropical dry forest increases with fragment size but can increase or decrease with fragment isolation depending on...
Climate change may even threaten the world’s most resilient lizards
Sporting a bright red-and-yellow dewlap under its chin, the color-changing Bahamian anole lizard is a popular exotic pet. This wily anole has escaped captivity...
New shrew species discovered on ‘sky island’ in Philippines
The Philippines teems with biodiversity: 657 bird species roam and fly throughout the country's 7,641 islands, and over 2,000 fish species swim in the...
Russian cuckoo invasion spells trouble for Alaskan birds
Common cuckoos and oriental cuckoos in eastern Russia appear to be expanding their breeding range into western Alaska, where songbirds are naive to the...
Carnivores in captivity and in wild give birth at the same time of year
Many species have a specific mating season when living in their natural habitat. The young ani-mals are usually born in spring when environmental conditions...
River dolphins are declining steeply in the Amazon basin
Populations of freshwater dolphins in the Amazon basin are in steep decline, dropping by half about every decade at current rates, according to a...
World’s rarest ape on the edge of extinction
In a new research article, a team of international researchers argue that the Tapanuli Orangutan--a species discovered last year in Sumatra, Indonesia, and one...
