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The male savannah elephant Doma and the male savannah elephant Mainos engage in greeting behaviour at Jafuta Reserve in Zimbabwe, in this undated handout picture. | Photo Credit: Reuters People greet each other in a variety of ways. They might say “hello,” “guten tag,” “hola,” “konnichiwa” or “g’day.” They might shake hands, bump fists, make…
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A male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus, with a facial wound below the right eye, is seen in the Suaq Balimbing research site, a protected rainforest area in Indonesia, two days before the orangutan administered wound self-treatment using a medicinal plant, in this handout picture taken June 23, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters An orangutan appeared…
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In a groundbreaking declaration earlier this month, Indigenous leaders of New Zealand and the Cook Islands signed a treaty, He Whakaputanga Moana, to recognise whales as legal persons. Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: AP In a groundbreaking declaration earlier this month, Indigenous leaders of New Zealand and the Cook Islands signed a treaty, He Whakaputanga…
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This July 26, 2023 image shows a ‘Coral Fort’ researchers are using to prevent laboratory-grown coral from being eaten by parrot fish. | Photo Credit: AP South Florida researchers trying to prevent predatory fish from devouring laboratory-grown coral are grasping at biodegradable straws in an effort to restore what some call the rainforest of the…
The largest-ever study of bird genomes has produced a remarkably clear picture of the bird family tree. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The largest-ever study of bird genomes has produced a remarkably clear picture of the bird family tree. Published in the journal Nature today, our study shows that most of the modern groups of birds…
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Atlantic Horseshoe crabs in a tidal pool along Pickering Beach, a national horseshoe crab sanctuary near Little Creek, Delaware, May 20, 2008. | Photo Credit: Reuters Environmental groups on Monday petitioned the U.S. government seeking endangered species protection for the American horseshoe crab, a “living fossil” under threat from commercial harvests for bait and biomedical use as well as from habitat…
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Caribbean box jellyfish are barely a centimetre long and have no brain. | Photo Credit: AFP Caribbean box jellyfish are barely a centimetre long and have no brain. But these gelatinous, fingernail-sized creatures are capable of learning from visual cues to avoid swimming into obstacles — a cognitive ability never before seen in animals with…
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Many people love eye an echidna. Their shuffling proceed, inquisitive gaze and protecting spines are detectable, coupled with the coarse hair and stubby beak. They seem like a unusual mix of hedgehog and anteater. However they’re no longer similar to those creatures in any respect. They’re much more secret and peculiar than recurrently assumed. Australia…
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a sun bear interacts with tourists at the Hangzhou Zoo in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023. The zoo in eastern China is denying suggestions some of its bears might be people in costumes after photos of the animals standing like humans…
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