Dhole Gets Its First Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly
Researchers assembled a 2.42-billion-base genome for the dhole, anchoring 97.0% of its sequence to 39 chromosomes. The resource…
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A continuing selection of new studies, conservation projects and important developments connected to species in the archive.
An ancient viral gene may have been repurposed in elephant placenta
An ancient viral gene that appears to have been inherited for at least 79 million years is strongly…
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Three Ways of Analysing Elephant Calls Gave Different Results
Recordings from a semi-free herd in South Africa show how the method used to classify call timing can…
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Great Tits Infected Ticks With Borrelia Most Often During Breeding
Across 420 xenodiagnoses in northern Belgium, wild Great Tits were much more likely to transmit Borrelia garinii to…
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Female Rhesus Macaques That Watched Unfamiliar Female Faces Longer Were More Likely to Have Offspring the Following Year
At a semi-free-ranging population in Puerto Rico, females that spent longer looking at an unfamiliar female’s neutral face…
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Elephant Rumble Choruses Carried Context and Sometimes Converged During Coordination
Recordings from wild African bush elephants in Amboseli showed that behavioural context remained detectable in overlapping rumble choruses.…
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African Bush Elephants Distinguished Artificial Food-Quantity Patterns at Close Range
In experiments in South Africa, four semi-tame elephants chose between visual patterns representing canopy size and leaf density.…
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What African Bush Elephants Eat in Nigeria’s Dry Season
Three weeks of observations in Yankari Game Reserve recorded elephants feeding mainly on leaves. Of four sampled forage…
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CT Reveals the Organs and Blood Vessels Inside a White-backed Vulture
A contrast-enhanced CT scan of one adult male white-backed vulture revealed major organs and vessels, while also showing…
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Roe Deer and Wild Boar Remained Key Wolf Prey as Diet Shifted Across North-western Italy
From 2021 to 2025, wolves in north-western Italy continued to feed mainly on wild prey. In the Po…
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Male and Female Fallow Deer Followed Different Daily Schedules Outside the Rut
In 4,114 sexed camera-trap detections from a Dutch dune reserve, fallow deer favoured twilight and night. Outside the…
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Urban Bird Diversity Was More Strongly Linked to Forest Structure Than the Surrounding City
Across 12 urban forests in three Italian cities, researchers recorded 2,035 birds from 52 species. Local forest structure…
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Human Activity and Large Wildlife Overlapped Most in Chitwan’s Buffer Zone
Camera traps across Chitwan National Park and surrounding forests showed the greatest overlap of human activity with large…
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Barnacle Goose Breeding Population Fell 98% on Gotland and Öland – Eagle Predation a Likely Factor
Breeding pairs of Barnacle Geese on Gotland and Öland fell from about 5,290 in 2002 to roughly 100…
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Inuit harvesters help detect an emerging parasitic disease in Arctic caribou
Near Kugluktuk in Nunavut, Inuit harvesters reported unusual tissue changes in caribou. Tests found DNA from two parasitic…
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Endoparasites Infected 71.2% of Tropical House Geckos in Western Pará
In western Pará, Brazil, researchers found internal parasites in 71.2% of 156 wild Tropical House Geckos. Larger geckos…
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Waterbird Nest Counts Nearly Halved at an Indian Wetland, but Bird Numbers Showed No Clear Decline
At Vettangudi Bird Sanctuary in India, recorded waterbird nests fell from 396 to 190 across eight sampled breeding…
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Aging rhesus macaques show broader protein changes in blood than in brain fluid
A study of 66 rhesus macaques found age-related differences in many more measured proteins in plasma than in…
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Genes Linked to the Stripes of Wild Boar Piglets
Genetic analysis of a 932-piglet breeding population and skin from three striped newborn hybrids implicated MC1R, KIT and…
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Six Migratory Shorebirds Were Linked to Habitat Complexes Beyond Tidal Flats
Across the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, six shorebirds were associated not only with tidal flats but also with nearby…
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