An international research team led by Daurina Koubinova has discovered five new species of vesper bats during a series of expeditions to Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park. The new species are considered cryptic, because their genetic makeup is different despite physical similarities. The new bats have yet to be named. This was the first genetic study […]
Category: Wildlife
Polar bear attacks: scientists warn of fresh dangers in warming Arctic
A polar bear attack in Canada that left two people injured has brought new warnings from scientists of a dangerous rise in human-bear encounters in a warming Arctic. The friends had just walked out of the door in the pre-dawn hours after a party when the young polar bear crept up behind them, unheard and […]
Red-flanked Bluetail,Tarsiger cyanurus
Det får bli några arkivbilder igen för det är inte mycket fotograferande nu. Här bilder från en bra dag på Öland 2010-11-13, det fanns både svartstrupig järnsparv , blåstjärt och större skrikörn mm.
Critically endangered species in Sumatra on the road to extinction
Critically endangered wildlife, including some of the last Sumatran tigers as well as rhinos, bears and eagles, could be wiped out if plans go ahead to construct a major road through an Indonesian tropical forest reserve currently being restored by British conservationists. The 51km-road, which would enable 850 truckloads of coal a day to be […]
Can you catch a yawn off a wild animal?
It’s well-known that yawning is contagious. Dogs will even respond to a yawning owner by producing a yawn of their own, thought to be an indication they are capable of cross-species empathy. But what about the other way round? What does it mean if you catch a yawn off a wild animal like a lion? […]
Locally extinct birds in the Amazon slowly flock back to forests when trees regrow
Between 1992 and 2011, a team led by Philip Stouffer of Louisiana State University tracked the movements of birds through fragmented rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon. Using soft nylon stretches called mist nets, they snagged nearly 4,000 birds at the margins between old growth forests and tracts of between old growth rainforest and forest recovering […]
Chiricote, Gray-necked Wood-Rail, Aramides cajanea
Esta es la especie que me faltaba para completar las 3 del género “Aramides” que habitan en la Argentina; anteriores avistajes de esta especie resultaron en intentos infructuosos por obtener buenas imágenes para publicarlas en el blog. Los pude observar en varias oportunidades en Paso de la Patria Corrientes y en Formosa cuando viajamos con […]
Dolphins, bats and the evolution of echolocation
A dolphin swimming through the world’s oceans after fish, and a bat flying through the air with its membranous wings to catch insects or eat fruit: at first glance, it looks like no two creatures could be more different. But it turns out they share a superpower – they hunt prey by emitting high-pitched sounds […]