Seabird colony creates ‘halo’ of depleted fish stocks
Credit: Sam Weber A vast seabird colony on Ascension Island creates a "halo" in which fewer fish live, new research ...
Tag: Zoology/Veterinary Science
The same neural pathways promote maternal and paternal behaviors in voles
Connection between hypothalamus and reward areas crucial for fatherly behaviorCredit: He et al., JNeurosci 2021 Like female voles, connections between ...
UMass Amherst research pinpoints role of dopamine in songbird’s brain plasticity
Neurotransmitter shown to be a key driver in sensory processingCredit: UMass Amherst Neuroscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have ...
Guadalupe fur seals continue to recover as new colony discovered
Credit: Jorge Paul Orduño García. Guadalupe fur seals (Arctocephalus townsendi) have established a large resting colony in the Gulf of ...
Better predicting how plants and animals will weather climate extremes
Leading scientists argue the need to consider biomechanicsCredit: (Tim Higham/UCR) A team of scientists has devised a more accurate way ...
Why are some fish warm-blooded? Predatory sharks gain speed advantage
Credit: Diego Camejo (Beneath the Waves). New research from marine biologists offers answers to a fundamental puzzle that had until ...
Parasites manipulate praying mantis’s polarized-light perception, causing it to jump into water
Credit: Takuya Sato Researchers have revealed that praying mantis (mantids) infected with parasitic hairworms are attracted to horizontally polarized light ...
Unusual prey: Spiders eating snakes
There are spiders that eat snakes; observations of snake-eating spiders have been reported around the world. Two researchers from Basel ...
Elephants solve problems with personality
Credit: Lisa Barrett Just as humans have their own individual personalities, new research in the Journal of Comparative Psychology shows ...
Leopard gecko skin tumors traced to cancer gene
Credit: L. Guo et al./PLOS Genetics 2021/Steve Sykes The leopard gecko's name was Mr. Frosty, and he was hard to ...
Elephant seal diving mystery solved: 24-hour feeding could be climate change sentinel
Credit: Photo by Taiki Adachi (NIPR/University of St Andrews) Female elephant seal weigh on average 350 kg, and dive continuously ...
These sea anemones have a diverse diet. And they eat ants
A study describes the gut contents of giant plumose anemones off the coast of the state of WashingtonCredit: Credit: Christopher ...
Community science project will study rattlesnake behavior with remote cameras
Members of the public can analyze time lapse images to contribute to scientific understanding of rattlesnake maternal care, predation and ...
Bird migration takes plants in wrong direction to cope with climate change
Credit: David Chapman Migratory birds carry most seeds in the wrong direction to help plants cope with climate change, new ...