Trillions of slumbering, sex-crazed cicadas are expected to reemerge across the US starting this month in an insect event which has not happened in over 200 years. For the first time since 1803, the odd-numbered, 13 to 17-year cycles of two different large broods of cicada will finally intersect — unleashing a deafening, noisy mating […]
Mega Rare Blue Rock Thrush Spotted on Oregon Beach Is First Sighting in US History
Owing to personal interest, GNN is partial to stories of rare bird sightings, and news from Oregon recently broke the story of a ‘mega-rare’ bird never seen before in either the state or the country. It wasn’t made by a birder, but rather an ordinary talented photographer named Michael Sanchez, who was on the beach […]
New Yorkers Get Flaco the Owl Tattoos in Memoriam
Flaco the Owl was once a staple of the Central Park Zoo. He captivated the hearts of many New Yorkers when he made a daring escape into the wild. His journey, though tragically short-lived, sparked inspiration among the city’s inhabitants. For one New Yorker, Flaco’s story served as a wake-up call. Working in Central Park, […]
Snakes on a plane – almost – as reptiles found hidden in passenger´s trousers
Airport security officers in Miami found a scaly surprise last week — a bag of snakes hidden in a passenger’s trousers. According to an X post by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), officers at Miami International Airport found the small bag of snakes hidden in a passenger’s clothes at a checkpoint on April 26. […]
Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?
There was something wrong with the chimpanzees. For weeks, a community of 205 animals in Uganda’s Kibale national park had been coughing, sneezing and looking generally miserable. But no one could say for sure what ailed them, even as the animals began to die. Necropsies can help to identify a cause of death, but normally, […]
Traffic Noise Pollution Stunts Growth in Baby Birds
A recent study published in the journal Science has shed light on the profound impact of noise pollution from city traffic on the development of baby birds, even while they are still inside the egg. Conducted by researchers from Deakin University in Australia, the study reveals alarming findings about the long-term negative effects of noise […]
Mystery as dozens of sick, starved pelicans flood wildlife center after ‘mass-stranding’ event
Droves of sick and starved pelicans have been coming into a local wildlife center in Huntington Beach, California as a result of a ‘mass stranding.’ In the last month alone, more than 80 brown pelicans have been brought to the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center, with only 31 surviving. Debbie McGuire, executive director of the […]
First report of wound treatment by a wild animal using a pain-relieving plant
Even though there is evidence of certain self-medication behaviors in animals, so far it has never been known that animals treat their wounds with healing plants. Now, biologists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany and Universitas Nasional, Indonesia have observed this in a male Sumatran orangutan who sustained a facial wound. He […]