COVID-19 highlights risks of wildlife trade
International research team including Göttingen University makes urgent call for more effective wildlife trade legislationCredit: Kit Magellan Many diseases, such ...
Tag: Animal Research/Rights
Vampire bats social distance when they get sick
Credit: Sherri and Brock Fenton/Behavioral Ecology A new paper in Behavioral Ecology, published by Oxford University Press, finds that wild ...
Relative restrictiveness of each state’s voting environment in 2020
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 19, 2020--Texas has the most restrictive electoral environment in 2020, ...
Foreign election interference: A global response
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 13, 2020—The increasing threat of foreign interference in elections has ...
Want to save shelter animals? Fight for social justice
Humane communities would endorse animal-friendly affordable housing, living wages, and recognize the importance of human-animal bondsCredit: Stanford University Press Overpolicing ...
Genetic link between cattle temperament and autism
Credit: (c) University of Queensland A strong association between the genes influencing cattle temperament and autism in humans has been ...
Concordia student maps global primate habitat endangered by climate change
Brogan Stewart demonstrates how territory home to hundreds of species of monkeys, apes and prosimians is being lost due to ...
Herbivores, not predators, most at risk of extinction
Global study sheds new light on current species declines, past species extinctions, and disruptions to Earth's ecosystemsCredit: Trisha Atwood/Utah State ...
Dingoes have gotten bigger over the last 80 years – and pesticides might be to blame
The average size of a dingo is increasing, but only in areas where poison-baits are used, a collaborative study led ...
Whale ‘snot’ reveals likely poor health during migration
Credit: Catharina Vendl Whale-watching season is delighting the viewing public along the east Australian coast but while it's a boon ...
A call to arms: Enlisting private land owners in conservation
A call to arms: Enlisting private land owners in conservation is essential to saving endangered species in the USACredit: Edward ...
Welfare concerns highlighted over ‘institutional hoarding’ of cats
Credit: Courtesy of Linda Jacobson/Toronto Humane Society The compulsive hoarding of animals is a poorly understood psychiatric disorder in people. ...
Helping to protect the most illegally trafficked mammals in the world
Researchers help wildlife crime investigators disrupt poachers and animal traffickers in an effort to bring them to justice.Credit: Credit: University ...
Red squirrels making comeback as return of pine marten spells bad news for invasive grey squirrel
NUI Galway study finds Ireland's native species recovering and returning to natural habitatsCredit: Poshey Aherne The number of red squirrels ...