animals

Florida Bear Freed After 28 Days Stuck in Plastic Container

Florida Bear Freed After 28 Days Stuck in Plastic Container

A Florida bear is finally free after living nearly a month with a plastic container stuck to her head. The bear was first spotted with her head in the container nearly three weeks ago, but then disappeared. She was finally rescued this week, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) wrote on Facebook. “Luckily […]

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    Singing Lemurs Could Help Scientists Understand Human Rhythm

    Singing Lemurs Could Help Scientists Understand Human Rhythm

    How and why did humans develop rhythm? The question remains a mystery, but now a research team from the University of Turin have found help from an unexpected source. “We have discovered that the way a lemur called indri sings its songs is very similar to the way we sing ours! They have our very […]

    Adorable Baby Seals Share Rare Vocal Ability With Humans

    Adorable Baby Seals Share Rare Vocal Ability With Humans

    It turns out, humans have a skill in common with baby seals: we can both lower our pitch in response to the world around us. That’s the result of a new study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Monday, which marks the first time this ability has been observed in baby seals. […]

    California Condors Are Capable of Virgin Births

    California Condors Are Capable of Virgin Births

    California condors are a critically endangered species, with only a little more than 500 left alive. However, a new study reveals that these vulnerable birds are capable of a rare ability: virgin births, or parthenogenesis. “This is truly an amazing discovery,” study co-author and Kleberg Endowed Director of Conservation Genetics at San Diego Zoo Wildlife […]

    Polar Bear Week Is Almost Here

    Polar Bear Week Is Almost Here

    By Geoff York Whenever I’m fortunate enough to travel north, the stress of daily life seems to fall away with each mile as one goes further away from built environments and closer to raw nature. Returning to Churchill, the small community on the shores of Hudson Bay, is no different. Churchill has a slower pace […]

    Humanity’s Silent Spring Brought More Birds to North America’s Cities

    Humanity’s Silent Spring Brought More Birds to North America’s Cities

    From the goats that ran wild in a Welsh town to the endangered turtles that nested on deserted beaches, many animals used the first months of the coronavirus lockdown to get comfortable in places normally dominated by humans. Now, a study published in Science Advances confirms that the number of birds in North American cities […]

    Poaching Drove Mozambique Elephants to Evolve Without Tusks, Study Finds

    Poaching Drove Mozambique Elephants to Evolve Without Tusks, Study Finds

    During Mozambique’s civil war from 1977 to 1992, around 90 percent of the elephants in what is now the Gorongosa National Park were poached for ivory to finance the conflict. This widespread slaughter led to rapid evolution in the span of one generation. Before the conflict, less than a fifth of female elephants were born […]

    Mother Elephant Tramples Crocodile to Death to Protect Her Young

    Mother Elephant Tramples Crocodile to Death to Protect Her Young

    Elephants are known as the gentle giants of the animal kingdom, but even they can get aggressive when their children are threatened. This is what one crocodile learned in a rare video posted Tuesday by the safari footage app Latest Sightings. “This unlucky crocodile found itself right underneath the feet of the world’s largest land […]