Tag: Zoology/Veterinary Science

Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS Researchers conducted a 12-year study from 2010 to 2017 on ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) in the Brazilian ...

Taking stock of Indonesia’s reef fishes

Credit: Fakhrizal Setiawan A research team estimated the natural stock of reef fishes from three regencies in the lesser Sunda-Banda ...

Counting the uncounted

Credit: WCS Though abundance is a fundamental measure in ecology and environmental management, detecting all individuals in a population is ...

Leopard coral grouper: Overexploited

Credit: Dhani Researchers measured the population stock in Saleh Bay, Indonesia of the commercially valuable leopard coral grouper (Plectropomus leopardus), ...

Northeastern deer more susceptible to wasting disease than those to the west

Credit: Joe Kosack, Pennsylvania Game Commission Some deer are more susceptible to chronic wasting disease that is spreading through herds ...

Elasmobranches getting slammed

Credit: Benaya Simeon Elasmobranches - sharks, rays, and skates - are at an elevated risk of extinction due to overfishing, ...

Are penguins righties or lefties?

Credit: Julie larsen Maher/WCS Researchers in Punta Tombo, Argentina conducted a study to see whether Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) showed ...

Toxic metals found in reproductive organs of critically endangered eels

Mystery of shrinking population may be linked to eels devouring their own skeletonsCredit: Marko Freese. Thünen Institute for Fisheries Ecology ...

Study reveals potential new disease threats for wild snow leopards

Credit: Pixabay The first study to investigate disease threats to wild snow leopards has detected that exposure to infections may ...

To see how invading predators change an ecosystem, watch the prey, say researchers

Princeton's Rob Pringle leads a team to study predator-prey relations in the BahamasCredit: Jonathan Losos, Washington University (bottom right) and ...

Freshwater stingray venom varies according to sex and age

A study by the FAPESP-funded Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center shows that toxins produced by young female stingrays cause more ...

Analysis: World’s protected areas safeguard only a fraction of wildlife

Adequately resourced protected areas currently safeguard just 4-9% of terrestrial amphibians, birds, and mammalsCredit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS NEW YORK (June ...

Human impact on the activities and social behaviour of urban capuchin monkeys

Credit: Janaína P. Back To better understand how primates modify their behaviour to adapt to the increasing presence of humans, ...

Frogs find refuge in elephant tracks