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Wild Biology News Archives Page 6
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 | Shorebirds take advantage of surface tension to capture prey ...> Full Article |
 | Study of monarch butterflies and the microscopic parasites that hitch a ride on them finds that the parasites strike a middle ground between the benefits gained by reproducing rapidly and the costs to their hosts ...> Full Article |
 | International study of animal behaviour has important implications for human decision-making ...> Full Article |
 | Scientist completes study on one of the worlds smallest mammals ...> Full Article |
 | Pointed wings together with carrying less weight per wing area and avoidance of high winds and atmospheric turbulence save a bird loads of energy during migration. This has been shown for the first time in free-flying wild birds. ...> Full Article |
 | In the first experiment to record the electrophysiology of sleep in a wild animal, three-toed sloths carrying miniature electroencephalogram recorders slept 9.63 hours per day-6 hours less than captive sloths did, reports an international team of researchers working on the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Barro Colorado Island in Panama. ...> Full Article |
The sea floor off the coast of Eureka, California, is home to a diverse assemblage of microbes that scavenge methane from cold deep-sea vents. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a technique to directly capture these cells, lending insight into the diverse symbiotic partnerships that evolved among different species in an extreme environment.
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 | Frogs ability to home in on the sound call is astonishingly precise ...> Full Article |
 | Study says social context affects the sexes differently ...> Full Article |
 | What if hydrology is more important for predicting biodiversity than biology ...> Full Article |
 | Individual birds can adjust their behaviour to take climate change in their stride ...> Full Article |
 | Research has shown that our desperately cute distant cousins use vocalisations to pick up a partner of the right species ...> Full Article |
Investigations continue into the cause of a mysterious illness that has resulted in the deaths of thousands of bats since March 2008
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 | The population of wild Puerto Rican parrots, among the most endangered birds in the world, has languished for decades, with several dozen remaining birds unable to break through the bottleneck that prevents their numbers from growing. ...> Full Article |
 | Bad habits can be picked up from peers or formed alone ...> Full Article |
Research explains the recent dramatic decline in certain bumblebee species found in the shrinking areas of species-rich chalk grasslands and hay meadows across Northern Europe
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 | A pioneering study of pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains will generate unprecedented insights into the behavior of one of the region's top predators. ...> Full Article |
 | Horses are being abandoned or neglected because the cost of keeping them has skyrocketed and many people don't understand all that's required of a horse owner ...> Full Article |
 | One of the world's most mysterious insects is about to invade the skies over forest lands in central and eastern Pennsylvania ...> Full Article |
 | Filipino-Field Museum discovery will fuel more research ...> Full Article |
A baby boom of sorts has wrapped up in Seward, Alaska.
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 | Fewer caribou calves are being born and more of them are dying in West Greenland as a result of a warming climate ...> Full Article |
 | Research provides the first evidence of an animal using ultraviolet B rays to communicate with other members of its species ...> Full Article |
 | New scientific results show bats emitting more dB than a rock concert ...> Full Article |
 | Male seahorses are nature's real-life Mr. Moms - they take fathering to a whole new level: Pregnancy. ...> Full Article |
 | Bison can repopulate large areas from Alaska to Mexico over the next 100 years provided a series of conservation and restoration measures are taken ...> Full Article |
Scientists have synthesized and studied a sophisticated molecule that, under illumination, is sensitive to both the magnitude and the direction of magnetic fields as tiny as the Earth's, which is, on average, one-twenty thousandth as strong as a refrigerator magnet.
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 | Legless lizard and tiny woodpecker among new species ...> Full Article |
 | Birds can tell if you are watching them - because they are watching you. ...> Full Article |
 | A postgraduate student has discovered a mammal which has never been seen before in Ireland ...> Full Article |
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