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Zoo Noise Emerges as a Growing Welfare Concern for Captive Animals
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (85+ words) From the rumble of construction machinery to the shriek of excited crowds, zoos are far noisier places than most visitors realize, and a new analysis of the scientific literature suggests that this constant barrage of human-generated sound may be quietly…...
DNA Hints at Hidden Diversity in a Declining South Asian Frog
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (681+ words) Across the flooded fields and scrubby foothills of South Asia lives a frog that most people, including many biologists, would struggle to tell apart from its close relatives. The burrowing frog Sphaerotheca maskeyi, a medium-sized member of the family Dicroglossidae,…...
Bird Guts Are a Dead End for Stick Insect Eggs, Digestion Experiments
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (793+ words) Stick and leaf insects are among the most accomplished masters of disguise in the animal kingdom, but their most remarkable imitation may be the one nobody watches happen. The eggs of many phasmid species look uncannily like plant seeds, complete…...
Zoo Visitors Become Citizen Scientists, Shedding Light on Animal Welfare
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (123+ words) More than 700 million people walk through the gates of zoos and aquariums every year, and a new study suggests that many of them are ready to do far more than gaze at the animals. Researchers from Harper Adams University, The…...
Few-shot learning enables large-scale annotation of trapped insect images
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (80+ words) Every night, across farmlands in China and much of the world, light traps lure nocturnal insect pests toward glowing panels, where they are photographed, counted, and in many designs, eliminated by infrared heat. These intelligent pest-monitoring stations promise a revolution…...
TWRA biologists uncover rare aquatic species during the Benthic Blitz
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (127+ words) TWRA Malacologist, Brittany Bajo-Walker and United States Fish and Wildlife Service Biologist, Taylor Fagin with Littlewing Pearlymusse Biologists at the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency recently held their second annual Benthic Blitz from August 10-14. During this time, biologists uncovered a rare…...
Natural selection shapes genomes across great ape species
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (713+ words) In the most comprehensive survey of natural selection across our closest living relatives to date, an international team of researchers has mapped the genomic landscapes of adaptation in six great ape lineages, revealing new candidate genes tied to senses, immunity,…...
Rock fractures and soil shape water use by karst woody plants
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (621+ words) In the rugged karst landscapes of Southwest China, where limestone and dolomite bedrock jut through thin soils and fissures slice deep into the planet’s critical zone, the question of how trees survive has long fascinated scientists....
Complete Guazuma ulmifolia Genome Reveals Evolution, Drought Adaptation,
2+ week, 2+ day ago (84+ words) A wild relative of cacao has yielded a remarkably complete genetic blueprint that could help scientists understand how tropical trees withstand drought, evolve new chromosome structures and produce medically interesting plant compounds. In a study published in Plant Cell Reports,…...
Red List Models Underestimate Climate Extinction Risks for Range-Shifting
2+ week, 6+ day ago (87+ words) A Hidden Climate Threat Is Putting Range-Shifting Species at Greater Risk of Extinction Species are moving as the climate changes, but the tools used to judge whether they are threatened may be failing to follow them. A study by ecologists…...