Tag: Wildlife
Llamas are having a moment in the US, but they’ve been...
Emily Wakild, Boise State University
With their long eyelashes, banana-shaped ears, upturned mouths and stocky bodies covered with curly wool, llamas look like creatures that...
Fences have big effects on land and wildlife around the world...
Alex McInturff, University of California Santa Barbara; Christine Wilkinson, University of California, Berkeley, and Wenjing Xu, University of California, Berkeley
What is the most common...
Why do tigers have stripes?
Andrew Cushing, University of Tennessee
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
New research reveals these 20 Australian reptiles are set to disappear...
Hayley Geyle, Charles Darwin University and David Chapple, Monash University
Action came too late for the Christmas Island forest skink, despite early warnings of significant...
How to reverse global wildlife declines by 2050
Michael Obersteiner, University of Oxford; David Leclère, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and Piero Visconti, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Species...
Women have disrupted research on bird song, and their findings show...
Kevin Omland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Evangeline Rose, University of Maryland, and Karan Odom, Cornell University
Americans often idealize scientists as unbiased, objective observers....
How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans
Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida; Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, and Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Universidade de São Paulo
The coronavirus...
Can Asia end its uncontrolled consumption of wildlife? Here’s how North...
Roland Kays, North Carolina State University
It was a dark time for animals. Poaching was rampant. Wild birds and mammals were being slaughtered by the...
EXPLORING NATURE
From ancient texts to modern practices, Daoism provides a profound framework...
Michael Naparstek, University of Tennessee
Daoism, China’s indigenous religion, is one of the country’s five officially recognized religions today....
