Bats fly back to their roosts after a night of hunting in a “leapfrogging” pattern that allows them to maximise their time out and stay safe from predators, researchers have found. A team from Cardiff University and the University of Sussex developed a mathematical model using “trajectory data” that tracked the flight of greater horseshoe […]
The remarkable partnership between East Africa’s whistling thorn trees and their resident ants is well known, but now a new study brings to light the trees’ relationship with birds. Acacia ants will swarm over branches and bite elephants or giraffes who try to eat the leaves of the whistling thorn (Acacia drepanolobium). As an incentive […]
Welcoming a majestic horse as your new friend awakens timeless bonds, reminding people to nurture compassion while marveling at their towing grace and spirited ways. But beyond the allure of their storied manes dancing upon the wind and the promise of adventures across grassy trails together ahead awaits significant caretaker commitment. Before galloping joyfully ahead […]
A team of heroic local residents and wildlife experts rescued an otter that was stuck downstream of a dam in Massachusetts. The frightened animal struggled to swim against the current in the Ipswich Mills Dam for at least three days before it was spotted. Multiple unsuccessful rescue attempts later, the team gave it one final […]
Here’s a fact: 13% of the world’s coastlines are lagoons. Because of that, they present one of the highest biological productivities in marine life. Teeming with species, they provide homes for fish gliding through rippling seagrass, birds skimming the glittering surface, dolphins spinning joyously, ancient sea turtles returning to their nest, and many tiny creatures […]
A Florida woman was left bloodied and bruised after battling an alligator to protect her dog on New Year’s Eve. The reptile launched at Gwen Cash’s Rottweiler, Maximus, moments after the pair stepped outside their home near Holly Lake in Pembroke Pines. Cash said: ‘He kind of turned as if he was going for my […]
Once roaming across Southeast Asia, the Javan rhino today persists on a single peninsula off the western-most coast of Java in Indonesian. There, in Ujung Kulon National Park, around 70 Javan rhinos (Rhinoceros sondaicus) survive. A tsunami, a disease or a determined group of poachers could wipe them out for good. To complicate matters further, […]
A seven-year-old girl has been bitten by a dingo after her mother tried to take a photo of the animal at a popular Queensland tourist spot. It marks the latest incident involving children and dingoes at Fraser Island, which has the Indigenous name K’gari. The girl’s family were waiting in their vehicle for a barge […]