Roundworm infection in a wild boar was linked to lesions in several organs
A postmortem examination of a female wild boar in Tamil Nadu, India, found four Ascaris suum roundworms and…
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Research, conservation and new discoveries
A continuing selection of new studies, conservation projects and important developments connected to species in the archive.
Rock Dove feathers revealed differences in industrial metal pollution in Kazakhstan
A pilot study compared metal indicators in Rock Dove feathers from three Kazakh sites. The total Metal Pollution…
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Mitochondrial Genomes Reveal a Close Relationship Between Two Hawk-Eagles
New near-complete mitochondrial genomes from the South Philippine Hawk-eagle and Changeable Hawk-Eagle reveal a shared DNA feature and…
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Rodents Were the Most Frequent Food Remains in Red Fox Scats from Kashmir
An autumn survey of 33 red fox scats from Limber Wildlife Sanctuary found rodent traces more often than…
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Two arrested after suspected waterbuck poaching
After a farmer found the remains of a waterbuck near Groot Marico, police investigated and arrested two suspects.…
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The Himalayan griffon’s pelvis, fused spine and tail
A study of three Himalayan griffon skeletons describes how the pelvis connects to a fused section of the…
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Elephants Have Unusual Enzyme Genes for Processing Foreign Compounds
A comparison of African and Asian elephants found duplicated UGT2B enzyme variants and differences in SULT genes. Tissue…
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Carrion Crows Decide Which Way Dots Move in About 235 Milliseconds
In a visual task, two carrion crows chose whether moving dots were travelling mostly left or right in…
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Coyote tapeworm infection is linked to farmland and managed green space near Chicago
In a study of 85 coyotes in the Chicago metropolitan area, 27.1% tested positive for Echinococcus multilocularis. Infection…
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Coyotes and dogs may share a hookworm that can infect people
In Costa Rica, hookworm variants found in coyotes and dogs did not group by host or sampling area.…
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Kinship, drought and matriarchs shape elephant family ties
More than 50 years of records from Amboseli, Kenya, show how elephant family cohesion shifts as families grow,…
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Social ties may shape how genes affect spotted hyena reproductive success
A study of wild spotted hyenas in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater found that estimates of inherited differences in lifetime…
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Size and Weight Help Wild Carrion Crows Choose Walnuts
In field tests in Japan, wild Carrion Crows favored larger walnuts. When similar-sized nuts hid different contents, the…
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Wintering waterbirds increased in Italy’s Caorle Lagoon, but the community changed
Across 29 winter counts from 1993 to 2022, waterbird numbers more than doubled in the Caorle Lagoon. Ducks,…
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Cattle egret DNA was detected in 18 of 23 mosquito blood meals in Mexico
In Aguascalientes, Mexico, researchers detected cattle egret DNA in 18 of 23 mosquito blood meals with identifiable hosts.…
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Bird serum failed to kill the tested Borrelia garinii strains
In laboratory tests, all tested Borrelia garinii strains resisted complement-mediated killing by bird sera, whether they came from…
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Zebra used larger daily ranges than tsessebe—except in the late flood season
GPS tracking in Botswana’s Okavango Delta found that plains zebra used daily ranges about twice as large as…
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Elephants and buffalo showed the clearest signs of range expansion after translocation in Malawi
A six-year camera-trap study in Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve found the clearest signs of establishment and expansion in African…
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Traditional water knowledge can help protect Nile crocodiles—and put them at risk
A review of 83 studies across Southern Africa finds that sacred sites and local knowledge of nesting and…
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Inside the great egret’s eye: a detailed anatomical portrait
An examination of six great egrets describes the eye’s structure, from its 10-layered retina to the glands around…
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