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Learning hunting techniques, if you are a humpback whale
Posted Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:00:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongNew research has shown that humpback whales are able to pass on hunting techniques to each other. The research published in Science has shown that humpbacks learn different techniques to hunt from one another.
Learning hunting techniques, if you are a humpback whale
Bills and Island Songsters
Posted Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:40:08 GMT by JW DoweyBill size has been investigated in these tunesmiths, with findings proving fruitful for evolutionary theorists. The birds themselves have bigger beak differences on more southerly islands!
Bills and Island Songsters
Panda-monium!
Posted Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:57:07 GMT by Dave ArmstrongPandas have been affected by many earthquakes in China. Here we get on-the-spot reporting about panda responses at a Szechuan Conservation and Research Centre.
Panda-monium!
How did we first walk?
Posted Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:10:25 GMT by Dave ArmstrongThe African coelacanth and tetrapod evolution. New modifications on the genes involved can be found in ancestral 'four-legged creatures' or tetrapods.
How did we first walk?
Evolving Doors
Posted Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:38:39 GMT by JW DoweyA new study has been published on how environmental change effects the evolutionary process. The question of whether speciation is a quick process or a cold unending and slow bore is nearing an answer.
Evolving Doors
Revelatory ape maturity in Sumatra and Borneo
Posted Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:18:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongWe don't see any normal lack of secondary sexual characteristics in the great apes - except in the orang-utan. The undeveloped male in these two species, without the large dewlap-like flange, cannot change back to this morph but usually develops into the mature morph over a variable period of time.
Revelatory ape maturity in Sumatra and Borneo
Signals between species help survival
Posted Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:58:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongA new study on bird species signalling and the species' mobbing response behaviour towards predators has been published by the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Signals between species help survival
Rare Hihi shows us style is down to diet!
Posted Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:02:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongNew hihi study show that sexual selection functions as an indicator of early diet history. The study was carried out on the rare and colourful Notymystis cincta, sometimes called the hihi or stitchbird, which is endemic to New Zealand.
Rare Hihi shows us style is down to diet!
Jelly and Sea Tomatoes?
Posted Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:57:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongFor a century or more, there has been a decadal fluctuation in 'blooms' of jellyfish numbers, but why?
Jelly and Sea Tomatoes?
Fiddling increases with age?
Posted Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:41:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongThe courtship effort of any male depends on his age, his display rate and his courtship persistence. Uca annulipes has a body size correlated with his age and waves at females more and more persistently with age.
Fiddling increases with age?
Why We Should Mix-and-Match Forests
Posted Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:51:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongWe all depend upon ecosystems in our lives and our forests form one of the major systems of human interest. Lars reckons they provide several 'crucial' ecosystem services.
Why We Should Mix-and-Match Forests
The Echidna that survived for thousands of years
Posted Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:11:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongThousands of years ago, in the aboriginal 'dreamtime', Australian echidnas mainly died out, leaving just one short-beaked echidna alive throughout the continent.
The Echidna that survived for thousands of years
The pygmy right whale is finally found (and found unique!)
Posted Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:45:46 GMT by Dave ArmstrongOf all the cetaceans in the sea, the pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, which isn't a right whale at all, is likely to be the least seen.
The pygmy right whale is finally found (and found unique!)
Putting the cat(fish) among the pigeons
Posted Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:31:01 GMT by Dave ArmstrongResearchers discover 'freshwater killer whales' in France. The European catfish hunt pigeons on land.
Putting the cat(fish) among the pigeons
The pygmy sloth in the mangroves
Posted Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:17:07 GMT by Paul RobinsonThe endangered pygmy 3-toed sloth has been isolated for at least 8,900 years on the 10 mangrove swamps of this speck of land on Isla Escudo de Veraguas, Panama.
The pygmy sloth in the mangroves
Oh, those blue butterflies are so near the brink
Posted Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:31:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongDo you know about the Large Blue and its begging habit? Maculinea rebeli (also known as Phengaris) is one of those cute blue butterflies that hang out with ants.
Oh, those blue butterflies are so near the brink
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