Meet the world’s largest canary.
New Scientist heads to São Tomé to get up close with the island’s grosbeak – a really big bird: Now it turns out the species […]
zoology
Bats have more to say than you think.
Nature delves into the surprising intricacies of bat language: Bats are noisy creatures, especially in their crowded caves, where they make calls to their neighbours. […]
SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”
SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Reindeer are shrinking, because of warmer arctic temperatures ,” Science, 11 Dec 2016, as used in the post “Reindeer […]
Reindeer have been shrinking since 1994.
Science reports on a reindeer study that’s been running a lot longer than this Christmas season. Researchers in the Arctic have found that reindeer have […]
Now you can count them before they’re hatched.
Or at least sex them. Yes, so, if you’re not up on your poultry husbandry, sexing chickens is a big thing – an enormous thing. […]
Scientists track elusive badger-cow encounters.
Nature goes out to the country to track the spread of TB (an unpleasant and expensive disease) by looking at how badgers meet cows… or […]
Eastern cougar: Extinct, officially.
The CBC – and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – are confirming what scientists have suspected for a long time… that the Eastern cougar […]
Leaping Electric Eels!
Science Daily reports on a not-terrifying-at-all accidental discovery, that electric eels are perfectly capable of jumping out of the water to deliver a lethal dose […]
More orangutans than we thought.
BBC has hope for the wild men of the woods. A new population study has found more than double the number of Sumatran orangutans as […]
Science Art: Maladieu du Cheval, by François Robichon de la Guérinière.
Click to embiggen A horse, looking well. From Manuel vétérinaire, ou traité sur les Maladies du Cheval, et sur les remédes qu’on doit employer pour […]
There’s a new giant tortoise species in the Galapagos.
Science Daily reports that where scientists had thought there was only one kind of giant tortoise, there were actually two.
Polar bears might make it after all.
Science Daily hails a new study that finds even in an iceless, seal-less Arctic, the polar bear might be able to survive: As climate change […]
Science Art: Paper Wings, by Nicole Frost.
Click to embiggen These are paper sculptures of birds’ wings – four specific categories of birds’ wings. As explained by their creator: This is my […]
We don’t have to protect the Eastern Cougar any more. There aren’t any left.
The Guardian has more on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s official extinction verdict: The agency said on Tuesday the four-year review, which included information […]