News tagged with animal ecology
Midge keeps invasive mosquito in check, aiding native mosquitoes (w/Podcast)
Jun 04, 2009 |
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In a drama played out across the southeastern U.S. in containers as small as a coffee cup, native and invasive mosquito larvae compete for resources and try to avoid getting eaten. One of the invasive mosquitoes, ...
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Fruit flies sick from mating
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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Mating can be exhausting. When fruit flies mate, the females' genes are activated to roughly the same extent as when an immune reaction starts. This is shown in a study at Uppsala University that is now appearing ...
Mating that causes injuries
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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Researchers at Uppsala University can now show that what is good for one sex is not always good for the other sex. In fact, evolutionary conflicts between the two sexes cause characteristics and behaviors that are downright ...
Skunk Deaths Not Due to Rabies or Distemper, Tests Show
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Apr 03, 2008 |
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Rabies and distemper appear not to be the cause of death for dozens of Northern California skunks, reports a veterinary scientist at the University of California, Davis.
Clownfish provide clues to animal conflicts
Jul 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Animal societies are hotbeds of conflict and cooperation, with creatures helping each other one moment and fighting the next. Biologist Andrew Zink has developed a new theoretical framework ...
Seeing beyond the invisible: Scientists find formula to uncover our planet’s past and help predict its future
May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of climate evolution and the ecology of past-times are often hampered by lost information - lost variables needed to complete the picture have been long thought untraceable but scientists ...
Smallest salamander in U.S. discovered
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources weren’t looking for anything new when they went exploring in the northeast part of the state. But ...
Cut energy use by eating better, study says
Aug 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How much energy we use to produce food could be cut in half if Americans ate less and ate local foods, wolfed down less meat, dairy and junk food, and used more traditional farming methods, says a new Cornell ...
Hind wings help butterflies make swift turns to evade predators, study finds
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New tires allow race cars to take tight turns at high speeds. Hind wings give moths and butterflies similar advantages: They are not necessary for basic flight but help these creatures take tight turns to ...
Rare African Golden Cat Captured on Camera
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Yale anthropologist has captured photographic images of a rare, cougar-like cat ranging at night in an endangered Ugandan forest.
Tuatara, the fastest evolving animal
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Mar 20, 2008 |
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In a study of New Zealand’s “living dinosaur” the tuatara, evolutionary biologist, and ancient DNA expert, Professor David Lambert and his team from the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution recovered DNA ...
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