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“#To mate or be eaten: Tree cricket behaviour in the presence of a predator” A green lynx spider captures a female tree cricket. Credit: Viraj Torsekar In the presence of predators, male tree crickets, but not females, change their mate-finding behavior, according to a new study from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The cricket…
“#Over a century later, the mystery of the Alfred Wallace’s butterfly is solved” A living individual (Famegana nisa) in its natural habitat. Credit: Dr Yu-Feng Hsu An over a century-long mystery has been surrounding the Taiwanese butterfly fauna ever since the “father of zoogeography” Alfred Russel Wallace, in collaboration with Frederic Moore, authored a landmark…
“#Study shows Latin America twice as rich in plant species as tropical Africa” Chalybea brevipedunculata from the remote Cordillera del Cóndor in Eastern Ecuador. Credit: David Neill Latin America is more than twice as rich in plant species as tropical Africa and is home to a third of the world’s biodiversity, a new paper published…
“#New tracking technology will help fight rhino poaching in Namibia” A black rhino and its calf; new technology that uses software to read unique features of rhino footprints will help protect this endangered species from poachers. Credit: WildTrack Interactive software that ‘reads’ and analyzes footprints left by black rhinoceroses can be used to monitor the…
“#Scientists discover new corals on most comprehensive deep-sea study of GBR” In Research Vessel Falkor’s wet lab, Dr Steph McLennan – Geoscience Australia – and Jeremy Horowitz – PhD Candidate at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University – take photographs of samples brought up by Remotely Operated Vehicle…
“#Hummingbird reduces its body temperature during nightly torpor” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers from the U.S. and South Africa has discovered that several species of hummingbirds living in the Andes drastically reduce their body temperatures during their nightly torpor. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes their…
“#New subspecies of the rarest Palaearctic butterfly found in the Arctic Circle of Yakutia” The newly described subspecies of the Arctic Apolloa, named Parnassius arcticus arbugaevi. Credit: Dr Roman V. Yakovlev An isolated population of the rarest Palaearctic butterfly species: the Arctic Apollo (Parnassius arcticus), turned out to be a new to science subspecies with…
“#Scientists find clues to queen bee failure” Queen cells ready to go into mating colonies for a queen production operation. Credit: Alison McAfee Scientists at UBC are unraveling the mysteries behind a persistent problem in commercial beekeeping that is one of the leading causes of colony mortality—queen bee failure. This occurs when the queen fails…
“#International study gets at the root of what makes deer migrate” European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) were one of the species included in the global study led by University of Wyoming researchers on deer and elk behavior as it relates to plant growth patterns. Credit: Bruno Lourtet of CEFS, University of Toulouse From the Rocky…
“#Compassionate conservation: Just because we love invasive animals doesn’t mean we should protect them” by Kaya Klop-Toker, Alex Callen, Andrea Griffin, Matt Hayward, Robert Scanlon, The Conversation </p><div> <div> <div data-src=”https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2020/compassionat.jpg” data-sub-html=”Credit: Shutterstock” data-thumb=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2020/compassionat.jpg”> <figure><img alt=”‘Compassionate conservation’: just because we love invasive animals doesn’t mean we should protect them” height=”480″ src=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2020/compassionat.jpg” title=”Credit: Shutterstock” width=”800″></img><figcaption> Credit:…