A giant alligator strapped to the back of a car on a motorway has been called the most Florida picture ever taken. A woman travelling along Interstate 95 in The Sunshine State was stunned to see a massive reptile hoisted by rope behind a vehicle, just one foot off the tarmac. Karen Kress from Tampa, […]
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White ibis stop foraging in bins and switch their diet to earthworms following torrential rains
The Australian white ibis have been pushed away from our trash and into Sydney’s flooded parklands by recent storms. The much-maligned ibis, sometimes known as the “bin chicken,” “tip turkey,” “lunch snatcher,” or “picnic pirate,” is currently congregating in large numbers in parks across Sydney, foraging for food and looking for a mate, according to […]
Endangered primates and cats may be hiding out in swamps and mangrove forests
What happens to animals when their forest is cut down? If they can, they migrate to different forests. But in an age when forests are falling far and fast, many species may have to shift to entirely different environments. A new paper in Folia Primatologica theorizes that some 60 primate species and 20 wild cat […]
Two new frog genera discovered in India’s Western Ghats, but restricted to threatened swamp-ecosystems
The misty mountains of the Western Ghats seem to unravel new secrets the more you explore it. Researchers have discovered two new frog genera, possibly restricted to rare and threatened freshwater swamps in the southern Western Ghats of India. The discoveries, described in the open-access journal Zootaxa, prove once again the importance of the mountain […]