New Scientist heads to São Tomé to get up close with the island’s grosbeak – a really big bird:
… Read the rest “Meet the world’s largest canary.”Now it turns out the species was also misidentified, and it is actually the largest
Nature delves into the surprising intricacies of bat language:
… Read the rest “Bats have more to say than you think.”Bats are noisy creatures, especially in their crowded caves, where they make calls to their neighbours. “If you go into a
SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Reindeer are shrinking, because of warmer arctic temperatures ,” Science, 11 Dec 2016, as used in the post “Reindeer… Read the rest “SONG: “Tiny Reindeer””
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 lost an average of 12% of their… Read the rest “Reindeer have been shrinking since 1994.”
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. Girl chickens grow up to lay eggs. Boy chickens –… Read the rest “Now you can count them before they’re hatched.”
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 really really don’t:
… Read the rest “Scientists track elusive badger-cow encounters.”Since 2013, the UK’s
The CBC – and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – are confirming what scientists have suspected for a long time… that the Eastern cougar subspecies can be taken off the… Read the rest “Eastern cougar: Extinct, officially.”
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 of electricity when… Read the rest “Leaping Electric Eels!”
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 expected:
… Read the rest “More orangutans than we thought.”The latest estimate puts the population at about
Science Daily reports that where scientists had thought there was only one kind of giant tortoise, there were actually two. Two kinds of giant tortoise living side by side:
… Read the rest “There’s a new giant tortoise species in the Galapagos.”The discovery
Science Daily hails a new study that finds even in an iceless, seal-less Arctic, the polar bear might be able to survive:
… Read the rest “Polar bears might make it after all.”As climate change accelerates ice melt in the Arctic, polar bears
These are ostensibly Cochin chickens, or forerunners of what we’d call Cochins today. They’re a breed with a *lot* of character, and are uniquely suited,… Read the rest “Science Art: Her Majesty’s Cochins; Imported in 1843, published 1904.”
These are paper sculptures of birds’ wings – four specific categories of birds’ wings. As explained by their creator:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Paper Wings, by Nicole Frost.”This is my paper sculpture of
The Guardian has more on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s official extinction verdict:
… Read the rest “We don’t have to protect the Eastern Cougar any more. There aren’t any left.”The agency said on Tuesday the four-year review, which included information from 21 states
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