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Shock treatment as Sri Lanka battles wild elephants
Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)
The government said the toll marked a clear escalation of the human-elephant conflict and urgent steps were needed to protect both people and wildlife. Governme...
African fish shows how hybridization drives evolution
Aug 08, 2018 (UPI)
Similar species sharing habitat sometimes mate. If they're genetically compatible, these species can spawn hybrids. According to hybrid swarm theory, interbreed...
Crows have consistent habits of partial migration, study shows
Aug 08, 2018 (UPI)
New research has offered fresh insight into the phenomenon of "partial migration" among crows. Researchers at Cornell University and Hamilton College tagged doz...
Koala virus could explain junk DNA in the human genome
Aug 07, 2018 (UPI)
"Retroviruses insert their genome into their host's chromosome, from where they make more copies of themselves," Paul Young, a professor of virology at the Univ...
Singapore uproar over store selling ivory jewellery
Aug 07, 2018 (AFP)
Ivory Lane offers earrings for Sg$160 ($120) and necklaces for Sg$800 ($585), and insists its products are made from ivory that was obtained before 1990, when a...
Microbes go dark to stay warm in cooler climates
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
The scientists, in a study to be published in Current Biology on August 2, examined yeasts collected at different latitudes, and found that dark-pigmented ones ...
Asia's wild-captured worker elephants die young
Aug 07, 2018 (AFP)
The older an elephant is at the time of capture, the more likely it is to die young, according to an analysis of government logs for 5,150 of the giant mammals ...
Protein's on-off switch dictates flowering in plants
Aug 06, 2018 (UPI)
Until now, scientists assumed the decision to grow flowers was dictated by a pair of proteins. One of the two proteins inhibited flower growth, while the other ...
Individual personalities of mice are influenced by social relations, study finds
Aug 06, 2018 (UPI)
Previous research showed individuality is influenced by genetics and developmental phenomena. Now, scientists have shown social relations also affect individual...
African killifish is the fastest maturing vertebrate on the planet
Aug 06, 2018 (UPI)
The tiny fish persist for most of the year as diapausing embryos buried in savannah sediments. Like dormant plant seeds, the embryos suspend their development u...
Slovenians strive to live in peace with bears
Aug 06, 2018 (AFP)
The turnaround to shooting bears with a camera, not a rifle, puts Mlakar, who runs bear observation tours, in step with wider efforts in the small Alpine nation...
On the frontline of India's human-elephant war
Aug 03, 2018 (AFP)
"Everything happened so fast. The elephant suddenly emerged from behind the bushes, trampled him and disappeared," his younger brother Girish -- thin, bearded a...
95% of lemur population facing extinction: conservationists
Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)
The arboreal primates with pointed snouts and typically long tails are found only in Madagascar, where rainforest destruction, unregulated agriculture, logging ...
Worm's search for food involves complex mathematics
Aug 01, 2018 (UPI)
Like most worms, roundworms, Caenorhabditis elegans, rely on their sense of smell to track down food. But how do worms interpret smells? How is a scent translat...
Lemurs use toxic millipedes to treat, prevent parasites
Aug 01, 2018 (UPI)
When an ape or monkey rubs objects or substances on their bodies, it's referred to as self-anointing. Scientists believe some species self-anoint to communicate...
Kenyan minister under fire over rhino transfer fiasco
Jul 31, 2018 (AFP)
Tourism and Wildlife Minister Najib Balala had directed the comments to those calling for his resignation over the fiasco during a press conference on Monday. "...
Over 100 wildlife rangers died on duty in past year: WWF
Jul 31, 2018 (AFP)
Illegal hunters are decimating endangered wildlife to gather rhino horns and big cat body parts to sell in East Asia, as well as bush meat -- including gorillas...
Rise of the grasshoppers: New analysis redraws evolutionary tree for major insect family
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
To conduct the study, a team of researchers at Texas A and M University and the Museo de La Plata in Argentina gathered grasshopper specimens from 22 countries ...
Bacteria extinctions are quite common, study shows
Jul 30, 2018 (UPI)
According to the latest analysis, when bacteria do go extinct, they fade away. The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, showed b...
NZ strikes off-note by stripping ivory off 123-yr-old British piano
Jul 29, 2018 (AFP)
The 123-year-old upright piano should have been exempt from strict rules aimed at cracking down on the ivory trade, because it was built before 1914. But owner ...
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