Unwanted behaviour in dogs is common, with great variance between breeds
Credit: Marta Reinartz/Pixabay All dog breeds have unwanted behaviour, such as noise sensitivity, aggressiveness and separation anxiety, but differences in ...
Tag: Zoology/Veterinary Science
Older beetle parents ‘less flexible’
Credit: Nick Royle Older parents are less flexible when it comes to raising their offspring, according to a new study ...
Scientists create model to predict multipathogen epidemics
Zooplankton study shows within-host pathogen interactions can predict epidemic severityCredit: University of Michigan HOUSTON -- (March 5, 2020) -- Diseases ...
Veterinarians: Dogs, too, can experience hearing loss
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Just like humans, dogs are sometimes born with impaired hearing or ...
City fox and country fox
Genetics reveal behavioural and physical barriers between urban and rural red foxes in and around BerlinCredit: Jon Andoni Juarez Garcia ...
Young Academy appoints Anna Stöckl
Credit: (Photo: Robert Emmerich) Everyone who has seen a hummingbird hawk-moth feed will never forget it again. The little moths ...
Scorpions make a fluorescent compound that could help protect them from parasites
Credit: Adapted from Journal of Natural Products 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b00972 Most scorpions glow a blue-green color when illuminated by ultraviolet ...
Does your cat have degenerative joint disease?
There's a new tool to find outCredit: Margaret Gruen With an estimated 10-15% of adults over the age of 60 ...
Deep-sea coral gardens discovered in the submarine canyons off south Western Australia
Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute Bremer Canyon Marine Park is already known as a biodiversity hotspot for marine species such as ...
Tadpoles break the tension with bubble-sucking
Credit: Kurt Schwenk When it comes to the smallest of creatures, the hydrogen bonds that hold water molecules together to ...
Are cats the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for wildfire effects on human health?
Scientists learn from cats injured in california wildfiresCredit: Rob Warren/UC Davis Cats who suffered burns and smoke inhalation in recent ...
Bee brain/human brain: New link
Study reveals links between bee brains and human brainsCredit: University of Otago Paul Szyszka, Lecturer in the University of Otago's ...
When it comes to conservation, ditch the ‘canary in the coal mine’
Menagerie of several species to monitor habitat health offers better conservation outcomesCredit: Nathan Skolski With habitat loss threatening the extinction ...
Tel Aviv University researchers discover unique non-oxygen breathing animal
The tiny relative of the jellyfish is parasitic and dwells in salmon tissueCredit: American Friends of Tel Aviv University Researchers ...
Powerful mantis shrimp pull punches in air for self-preservation
Credit: Kate Feller Mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis) don't take kindly to captivity. 'They have a general baseline of being angry', ...
Camera trap study captures Sumatran tigers, clouded leopards, other rare beasts
Credit: Photo courtesy Max Allen CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists deployed motion-sensitive camera traps across a 50-square-mile swath of Bukit Barisan ...
The ‘purrfect’ music for calming cats
Credit: Image courtesy of Abi Tansley Taking a cat to the vets can be a stressful experience, both for cat ...
Frozen bird turns out to be 46,000-year-old horned lark
Credit: Love Dalén Scientists have recovered DNA from a well-preserved horned lark found in Siberian permafrost. The results can contribute ...
NUI Galway highlights reproductive flexibility in hydractinia, a Galway bay jellyfish
Study shows how the jellyfish Hydractinia produces eggs and sperm more flexibly than humansCredit: Dr Tim DuBuc A new study, ...
New torula yeast product as digestible as fish meal in weanling pig diets
Credit: University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Starting weanling pigs off with the right diet can make all the difference ...
