Tag: Zoology/Veterinary Science

Credit: Judith Burkart The bigger the brain in relation to body size, the more intelligent a living organism is. This ...

Credit: Rob Wallace/WCS In an effort to better protect the world's last ecologically intact ecosystems, researchers developed a new metric ...

Credit: A. Vila/WCS The use of satellite telemetry in conservation is entering a "golden age," and is now being used ...

A nonlethal dose of insecticide clothianidin can reduce honeybees' life span by half; once combined with the fungicide pyraclostrobin, it ...

Researchers have combined two separate computer models to identify areas at highest risk for outbreaks of lumpy skin disease virus ...

Birds have a notion of 'green' versus 'blue,' but the line between them is fuzzy compared to the red-orange range. ...

A new study has revealed a range of factors that cause a variation in predation by magpies on farmland songbirds. ...

Credit: Kathelijne Koops Chimpanzees have a mainly vegetarian diet, but do occasionally eat meat. Researchers at the University of Zurich ...

Mammals have adapted to live in the darkest of caves and the deepest oceans, and from the highest mountains to ...

Could some chimpanzees' crustacean crave yield clues about human evolution?Credit: Kyoto University/Kathelijne Koops Kyoto, Japan -- Why do we fish? ...

Credit: Photo: Colin Beale/Universität York Elephants are essential to savannah and forest ecosystems and play an important role in ecotourism ...

The description of a new rat snake species from eastern Turkey, Elaphe urartica, has been published in the journal PeerJCredit: ...

Credit: Martin Stevens Crabs from a single species rely on different camouflage techniques depending on what habitat they live in, ...

Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - When Stella first entered the emergency department at the Michigan State University ...

Female scroungers form bonds with particular male producers and exchange mating for nourishment, Tel Aviv University researchers sayCredit: Sasha Danilovich ...

Plants function as the green lungs of our planet. Rightfully so, due to the capacity of a large single tree ...

Credit: Yvon Gouedard Orcas live in stable, structured social groups. And their survival directly depends on it, as a CNRS ...

Credit: LIPU Oasi Castel di Guido, Rome "Swarms" of wolf-dog crossbreeds could drive Europe's wolves out of existence, according to ...

Wild chimpanzees eat tortoises after cracking them open against tree trunksCredit: Erwan Theleste "We have known for decades that chimpanzees ...

Credit: Adapted from ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 16951?16957 Wearable electronics that adhere to skin are an emerging trend ...