Nature

Conference of The Wildlife Society coverage part II

White-tailed deer via Shutterstock Part II of the Conference of The Wildlife Society coverage taking place in Waikoloa, Hawaii. Landscape genetics used to study chronic wasting disease (in deer) Midwestern...

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A nightingale sings

Nightingale via Shutterstock For four years in May, in a Berlin park, twelve 1-year-old and twelve older nightingales were played (nightingale) songs to determine how they reacted to common songs...

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A whale of a time

The Whales skull only: Top: the six limestone plates containing the Aegyptocetus tarfa skeleton before preparation. Plates are lettered a-f from top to bottom stratigraphically. Bottom: schematic shows oblique orientation...

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Muriqui Mothers - a stabilising influence

Face of a Spider Monkey via Shutterstock A muriqui is a monkey that inhabits the forests of Brazil. Also known as the woolly spider monkey, they live the peaceful life...

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Early South American Mammal

Angry squirrel via Shutterstock Guillermo Rougier of the University of Louisville, Kentucky report two very significant Dryolestoid fossil skulls from the Cretaceous. Rougier, Apesteguia, and Gaetano publish the paper in...

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For the Hagfish ugly rules

Image of hagfish slime pores: Above - (a) Eptatretus cirrhatus (726 mm TL, ca. 85 total slime pores), arrows show its first five (of 15) prebranchial and last five (of...

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For baboons it pays to be sociable

Chacma baboons via Shutterstock Do the guys follow you or someone else? Papio ursinus, the Chacma baboon of Namibia, exists in small social stable groups on cliff top nesting sites...

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Invasive coconut-smelling ants reach Hawaii

Grzegorz Buczkowski said odorous house ants, native to the mainland United States, have invaded Hawaii and are forming large colonies.(Credit: Purdue Agricultural Communication file photo/Tom Campbell) The odorous house ants...

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