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Zoo Noise Emerges as a Growing Welfare Concern for Captive Animals
8+ hour, 21+ min 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
8+ hour, 21+ min 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,…...
New subterranean amphibian species discovered in Maharashtra's Western Ghats
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Bird Guts Are a Dead End for Stick Insect Eggs, Digestion Experiments
23+ hour, 38+ min 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
23+ hour, 45+ min 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…...
BBC Audio | Asia Specific | Why are Australia’s native animals going extinct?
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (231+ words) Australia is home to some of the world's most distinctive wildlife — nearly 90% of its mammals exist nowhere else on Earth. But Australia is also where a mammal extinction is happening at an alarming pace. Species are disappearing at a rate…...
The tadpoles that don't care about their siblings
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (264+ words) Kyoto, Japan -- Amphibian larvae -- often known as tadpoles -- exhibit a behavior known as social aggregation, where they gather together as a way to avoid predators. These interactions are evidence of their association preferences, or their tendency to recognize members of…...
University study raises questions over species being kept in UK zoos
2+ day, 39+ min ago (358+ words) Fewer than one in three animals in UK zoos and aquariums are at risk of extinction. That's according to a new study from the University of Brighton, which found that just 28.5 per cent of animals kept in collections are classified…...
Christchurch zoo facing financial crisis amid $4m budget hole
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (1133+ words) Christchurch's Orana Wildlife Park is in financial crisis with a $4 million hole in the zoo's budget. The park's board and managers said no decision had been made about its future but available cash reserves were forecast to run out by…...
Time capsule: Looking for a few good wood frog
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (691+ words) Note: This article was originally published 30 years ago, on Aug. 7, 1996. Brian Barnes and author Ned Rozell have since retired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and scientists now know that the wood frog’s internal body temperature can dip to 0.6 degrees…...