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Scat-Loving Snakes
Many farmers have stopped keeping manure heaps on their land, and snakes that rely on these piles of dung for nesting sites could suffer, scientists report in Biodiversity and Conservation.
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Zebra stripes evolved to keep biting flies at bay
Why zebras evolved their characteristic black-and-white stripes has been the subject of decades of debate among scientists.
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Bed Bugs: Less Picky Than Previously Thought?
It wasn’t long ago that bed bugs were just an uncomfortable memory from a bygone era. However, the blood-sucking critters have recently staged a remarkable comeback, and with it new industries have emerged with the aim of tracking and eradicating the irritating pests.
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Dung beetle dance provides crucial navigation cues
The dung beetle dance, performed as the beetle moves away from the dung pile with his precious dung ball, is a mechanism to maintain the desired straight-line departure from the pile, according to a study published in the Jan. 18 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE.
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Focus on Biodiversity: Freshwater Pearl Mussel
The Freshwater Pearl Mussel, Margaritifera margaritifera, is listed as ‘Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Its distribution stretches from northern Spain through France, the United Kingdom and central Europe, to Scandinavia and northern Russia. Individuals develop very slowly; in Sweden, recently discovered specimens are up to 280 years old.
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Sweden unleashes 6747 hunters onto 20 wolves
Another storm of protest is set to engulf Sweden’s second cull of endangered wolves tomorrow, which has seen 6,747 hunters register to kill 20 of the total Scandinavian wolf population of about 250.
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Managing nature reserves using ecological disturbances can easily go wrong
Ecological disturbances are not necessarily a bad thing – deliberate disturbances can actually be used to preserve or even increase biodiversity in a nature reserve.
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Global showdown chooses six panda caretakers
Six lucky candidates have been awarded the highly coveted opportunity to work as panda caretakers for one month, after an intense three-hour live showdown on China’s largest television network, CCTV.
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