Pumas are not the loners they were once thought to be.
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Pumas, long known as solitary carnivores, are more social than previously thought, according to a new Panthera study published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances....
Horse making demands: The horse a) lightly pushes and b) looks at the caretaker standing outside the paddock. Food is hidden inside one of the two silver buckets behind them. When horses cannot obtain this food by themselves, they...
Horses are grazing annual warm-season forages in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Credit: Michelle DeBoer
When you picture a horse, you may imagine it grazing contentedly in a grassy pasture. Grazing lets horses move around naturally outdoors and socialize with other horses. And...
Getting caught in fishing nets is a major cause of death for the increasingly endangered New Zealand sea lion, according to new research from New Zealand's University of Otago, Massey University and the University of Toronto.
Credit: Louise Chilvers
Getting caught...
A humpback whale feeds in waters off Vancouver. Image taken from an unmanned hexacopter, with a research license issued by Fisheries and Oceans Canada #2014-5 SARA-327.
Credit: Photo by John Durban (NOAA), Holly Fearnbach (SR3) and Lance Barrett- Lennard (Coastal...
Horned Larks from The Field Museum's collections, with gray birds from the turn of the century and cleaner birds from more recent years when there was less soot in the atmosphere.
Credit: Copyright Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay, The University...
This is the specimen. It has a total length of around 70 cm. The specimen is on display at the Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham.
Credit: Dean Lomax
Scientists from the UK have identified the smallest and youngest specimen...
Tropical rain forest.
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A new, cutting-edge approach to measuring changes in aboveground forest carbon density has helped scientists determine that widespread deforestation, degradation and disturbance has caused tropical forests to now emit more carbon than...
This photograph shows a collection of green, white, blue, and yellow budgies.
Credit: Thomas Cooke
When it comes to spectacular displays of color, birds are obvious standouts in the natural world. Many brightly colored birds get their pigments from the foods...
A thousand truckloads of orange peels were unloaded onto a barren pasture in a Costa Rican national park in the mid 1990s. Today, that area is covered in lush, vine-laden forest.
Credit: Photos courtesy of Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs
In...
Bee training on artificial flowers.
Credit: Clint Perry
By examining the brains of bees trained to different tasks, the researchers found that the number of connections between nerve cells may hold the answer to questions about individual cognitive differences. Bees with...
