With just a few people venturing outside their homes due to the quarantine restrictions placed by various countries, the streets have become largely empty. Interestingly, various types of wildlife are entering urban areas and wandering the streets, offering a curious sight to people. Wildlife comes back In the UK, a herd of about 120 Kashmiri ...
More than ever, American buyers are on the hunt for illegal wildlife and wild animal parts. Research from the University of Copenhagen has demonstrated that bear trophies, crocodiles, and exotic birds are coveted in the United States, while the trade in elephants and large cats has declined. The illegal trafficking of wildlife and wild animal ...
Lotay Tshering, the Prime Minister of Bhutan, has asked the public to adopt a dog as a way to honor the birthday of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. The King turned 40 years old on February 21. Adopting pets in Bhutan “At an individual level, Prime Minister said one can choose to plant a tree ...
People have always noted that dogs tend to be friendlier than cats. If you, too, have observed this phenomenon and have wondered why these animals behave differently despite being identically well cared for by their humans, there is an interesting scientific reason for it — it’s in their genes. Not too friendly A study conducted ...
Chinese paddlefish, which reached up to 23 feet in length, have become extinct according to a recent paper published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The species survived on Earth for almost 200 million years and was driven to extinction due to human activity. An extinct species Chinese paddlefish were native to the ...
Paul Barton is a classical pianist from Britain who spends his time playing the piano to a unique crowd — a group of blind and injured elephants at Elephants World in Thailand. Playing for the elephants Well into his late fifties, the idea of playing piano for elephants was something that came into Barton’s mind ...
Researchers have uncovered the first baby dinosaurs from Australia. The bones were discovered at several sites along the south coast of Victoria and near the outback town of Lightning Ridge in New South Wales. Some of the bones are so tiny that they likely come from animals that died while they were still in their ...
A few years back, a video of peregrine falcons hunting European starlings gained the attention of the Internet. Entitled The Starling and Falcon Dance, viewers were amazed at the hypnotic manner in which the birds were moving in the sky. The video went on to win the 2017 Nature’s Best — Windland Smith Photography and Video ...
How did life survive the most severe ice age? A McGill University-led research team has found the first direct evidence that glacial meltwater provided a crucial lifeline to eukaryotes during Snowball Earth, when the oceans were cut off from life-giving oxygen, answering a question puzzling scientists for years. In a new study published in the Proceedings of the ...
The Chinese egret, also known as Swinhoe’s egret, is a class of egret birds that have been grouped as a threatened species in East Asia. Its biggest threat is said to be the loss of habitat. Chinese egret “The bill [of a Chinese egret] is dusky with inner lower bill yellow to pink. The irises ...
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