Tag: endangered species
Planting mixes of flowers around farm fields helps keep bees healthy
Hamutahl Cohen, University of Florida
It’s springtime in California, and bees are emerging to feast on flowering fields –...
Digital sound archives can bring extinct birds (briefly) back to life
Hannah Hunter, Queen's University, Ontario
When people think of extinct animals, they may picture taxidermy, skeletons, 19th-century illustrations or...
With fewer animals to spread their seeds, plants could have trouble...
Evan Fricke, Rice University; Alejandro Ordonez, Aarhus University; Haldre Rogers, Iowa State University, and Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University
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When endangered species recover, humans may need to make room for...
Veronica Frans, Michigan State University
Imagine discovering a sea lion in the middle of the woods, more than a mile inland from the beach. Or...
Zoos and aquariums shift to a new standard of ‘animal welfare’...
Michael J. Renner, Drake University
In 1980 I visited the zoo in a major U.S. city and found row after row of bare concrete...
Scientist at work: Endangered ocelots and their genetic diversity may benefit...
Ashley Reeves, University of Tennessee
The female ocelot lay anesthetized on the exam table, behind the scenes at the...
Giant sea bass are thriving in Mexican waters – scientific research...
Arturo Ramírez-Valdez, University of California San Diego
I was looking at the seafloor, focused on identifying fish species as...
GPS tracking could help tigers and traffic coexist in Asia
Neil Carter, University of Michigan
More than 100,000 tigers ranged across Asia a century ago, from the Indian subcontinent...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
