Tag: Animals

Speed Camera Catches Dog Driving Over The Limit In Slovakia, Driver Fined

Speed Camera Catches Dog Driving Over The Limit In Slovakia, Driver Fined | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Imagine being a police officer and seeing the photo of a dog driver during your shift – yet that’s precisely what happened to Slovakian authorities October 3, 2023 at 21:01 <!––> <!– –> Police officers in the Trnava […]

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Same-Sex Behavior Evolved in Many Mammals to Reduce Conflict, Study Suggests

In more than 1,500 animal species, from crickets and sea urchins to bottlenose dolphins and bonobos, scientists have observed sexual encounters between members of the same sex. Some researchers have proposed that this behavior has existed since the dawn of the animal kingdom. But the authors of a new study of thousands of mammalian species […]

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In the Big City, Wildlife Researchers Are On the Prowl

Early one morning last month, Laura Dudley Plimpton found herself in Forest Park, in Queens, staring at a pair of captured raccoons. It was not the first time that Ms. Plimpton, an ecologist at Columbia University, had caught two of them in a cage trap designed for one. But typically when that happened, she would […]

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Dogs Get New Job After No Longer Being Used for Rescues

In Switzerland, St. Bernard dogs are one of its national symbols, known for rescuing people from avalanches. The size that made the St. Bernard a great avalanche dog has now become a disadvantage. Smaller breeds that are easily transported in helicopters to rescue sites are now preferred. Switzerland’s Barry Foundation has helped train St. Bernards […]

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Hunting Contest Reveals Rifts Over Invasive Species in New Zealand

The pickup trucks rolled up one by one, ferrying a stream of animal carcasses into the show grounds. Pigs, deer, possums, even feral cats — all would be weighed and showcased, the bigger animals strung on racks, the smaller ones laid out in rows that became heaps as the day went on. The event, a […]

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A Statue Draped With Snakes? In Italy, It Happens Every Year.

It was the morning of May 1, and the Italian village of Cocullo was almost unrecognizable. The typical placidity of its quiet alleys and muted central square had given way to several thousand people: religious travelers, musicians, young women in ornate costumes, tourists from the far corners of the country and beyond. A group of […]

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Arsenic Preserved the Animals, But Killed the Museum

Usually, you go to the zoo to look at live animals. But at the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, people also went to see the dead ones. The attraction, called the Delbridge Museum of Natural History, hosted one of the most impressive taxidermy collections in the country, with some 150 animals from […]

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The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean?

Reiss’s research on dolphin cognition is one of a handful of projects on animal communication that dates back to the 1980s, when there were widespread funding cuts in the field, after a top researcher retracted his much-hyped claim that a chimpanzee could be trained to use sign language to converse with humans. In a study […]

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You May Have This Blobby Animal to Thank for Your Nervous System

For hundreds of millions of years, pancake-shaped animals the size of a needle tip have been roving the seas with an appetite for tasty microbes and algae. They’re called placozoans, and are among the simplest of the major animal lineages. As simple as they are, a team of researchers has found compelling evidence of neuron-like […]

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Study decodes surprising approach mice take in learning

Neuroscience discoveries ranging from the nature of memory to treatments for disease have depended on reading the minds of mice, so researchers need to truly understand what the rodents’ behavior is telling them during experiments. In a new study that examines learning from reward, MIT researchers deciphered some initially mystifying mouse behavior, yielding new ideas […]

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Paris Turns ‘Little Belt’ of Train Tracks Into Green Spaces

Across the street from a block of dense office buildings in western Paris, Bernard Sokler was surrounded by trees, weeds and crickets, as he tended to a bush of purple wildflowers in a largely forgotten strip of land. Mr. Sokler, 60, and his team look after the greenery around a set of disused train tracks […]

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Alligator With Missing Upper Jaw Discovered in Florida

A Florida woman found an alligator with the top half of its jaw missing. The Seminole County woman took to Facebook to ask if anyone could help the poor gator. “I think an image like this, missing the whole part of your face, is very shocking,” licensed wildlife rehabilitator Kim Titterington told WESH. Titterington told the […]

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