Migration

Migration is the usually seasonal movement of animals in pursuit of food, suitable breeding sites or to escape bad weather or other environmental conditions. Mass migrations – such as the wildebeest crossing the Mara River, or Pacific salmon heading upstream to mate – create...

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Good food puts bees in good mood

Biologists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have discovered that after bumblebees drink a small droplet of really sweet sugar water, they behave like they are in a positive emotion-like state.

We all know what it’s like to taste our favourite food and instantly feel good about...

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Photographer Documents Amazing Bond Between Shelter Animals and the Volunteers Who Care for Them

As anyone who has volunteered at a shelter knows, developing a deep connection to the animals happens as instantaneously, and surprisingly, as a teenage crush.
When fine art dog photographer Jesse Freidin, 34, realized this, he decided to spend a year taking more than 100 moving portraits...

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Crush and Burn: Destroying Illegal Ivory

The image is powerful—thousands of elephant tusks and ivory carvings sitting in a large pile ready to be burned or crushed. A somber reminder of the elephants killed for these trinkets.
Several countries have destroyed their illegal ivory stockpiles in recent years—a powerful act dem...

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A Brighter Light on Bycatch

As gillnet mesh is very hard to see underwater, the team hypothesized that if nets were more visible, then turtles could avoid swimming into them. Their design (“Turtle Lights for Gillnets”) uses widely available fishing lights (LED or chemical lightsticks) to illuminate gillnets. The lig...

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Leaders Make Commitment to Help Polar Bears

As polar bears trudged back onto their sea ice hunting grounds for the winter, an international gathering of arctic nations was working last week to protect the future of the species. Representatives from the US, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Greenland and Russia announced at the International...

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Rhino Collaring Will Tell Critical Tale

A one-horned rhinoceros was successfully collared in Nepal late last month. The event was particularly significant because it occurred in a wildlife corridor that connects Nepal’s Bardia National Park with India’s Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary.
It’s the first time a corridor has been used a...

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Unexpected Swimmers: 3 Land Animals That Do Well in Water

TigersTigers are excellent swimmers and don’t avoid water. The large, striped cats have adapted to many different habitats, from the snows of Russia to the tropical forests of Indonesia. Tigers are also found in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest single block of mangrove forest, where they a...

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Kingfisher

Kingfishers are one of Britain’s most interesting birds. Their vivid colour is iridescence, not pigment – the pigment is actually dark brown! Interference between different wavelengths of light reflected from different layers of the feathers produces blues, greens and oranges. The feathers ...

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Rare, Miniature Skyros Ponies From Greek Mythology are Dying Out

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The legendary Skyros ponies, who have been running wild in Skyros, Greece for 2,000 years and was even believed to have pulled Achilles’ chariot, is nearing extinction. The rare creature’s numbers have dwindled to 200 remaining individuals left on...

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Optimization technique identifies cost-effective biodiversity corridors

A new optimization technique could help conservation biologists choose the most cost-effective ways of connecting isolated populations of rare, threatened and endangered species living in protected areas. As the human population grows and expands its footprint, maintaining the connectivity of...

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Fossils can help predict future species survival

Many people are concerned about conservation of the planet’s cute and cuddlies. But in a world of global climate change, sometimes we must prioritize which species we can and should save from extinction. Dr. Alycia Stigall and her colleagues are leading the charge in studies to help us...

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First Wolf Pack in Nearly 100 Years Discovered in CA

Brothers and sisters in the wolf pack of life, rejoice. Wildlife officials in California confirmed the first wolf pack in nearly 100 years has been discovered in remote Siskyou County. The pack, two adults and five pups, has been named the Shasta Pack.
Last year, wildlife officials added...

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Powered for life: Self-charging tag tracks fish as long as they swim

With each swish of a tail, scientists now have a tool that could study the movements of fish throughout their entire lives.

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a self-charging tracking tag for fish behavioral studies. This new tag uses a flexible...

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In bird feathers, scientists find hints about color of extinct animals

In order to discover the true colors of ancient animals, scientists are using X-rays to closely examine the chemical details of modern bird feathers.

The researchers were able to map elements that make up pigments responsible for red and black colors in feathers. They hope to use this...

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The World"s Elephants Can"t Wait

An emotional undertakingI watched as people wiped tears from their eyes viewing the piles of carved ivory ready to go in the crusher in the Square. Behind every piece of ivory is a dead elephant. And behind a dead elephant is often organized crime, corruption and human misery. People who buy...

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Protecting a Turtle Paradise in Indonesia

Within Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo lies a long stretch of sandy beach that is very important to marine turtles. Thousands of endangered green and critically endangered hawksbill turtles come ashore and use this beach for nesting.
Despite the critical i...

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Polar Bear Mom and Cub Snuggle in the Snow

Who doesn’t love the big, burly white bears of the north? Polar bears—at the top of the food chain and vital to the health of the Arctic marine environment—are important to the cultures and economies of Arctic peoples.
The bears spend most of their lives on sea ice, where they hunt rin...

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Academy Award-Winning Actor Jared Leto Joins WWF as Global Ambassador

While in South Africa, Leto joined WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Project veterinarian Dr. Jacques Flamand and other biologists and scientists with the andBeyond Phinda Private Game Reserve to tag and collar three southern white rhinos as part of a translocation program. Later this year,...

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4 Species Impacted by Dams

Free-flowing rivers are the freshwater equivalent of wilderness areas. They’re home to a diverse array of species, and provide food and water for animals and people.
Many freshwater species depend on free-flowing rivers to complete their life cycles and, in some systems, those species make u...

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Dinosaurs

Behaviours
Discover what these behaviours
are and how different plants and animals use them.



Egg layerOviparous animals lay eggs, inside which the young then develop before hatching occurs. Birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrates and even some...

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How Ornamented Skulls are Linked to Theropod Dinosaurs' Rapid Growth

Sep 28, 2016 08:50 AM EDT



A new study from North Carolina State University reveals how crests, horns and knobs found on the skull of theropod dinosaurs are connected to the animals fast growth compared to other species without ornamented skulls.


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Wireless, freely behaving rodent cage helps scientists collect more reliable data

Instead of building a better mouse trap, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have built a better mouse cage. They’ve created a system called EnerCage (Energized Cage) for scientific experiments on awake, freely behaving small animals. It wirelessly powers electronic devices and...

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Good News: California Sea Otter Population Reaches Highest Level in 100 Years

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A new report from the US Geological Survey (USGS) revealed that the populations of California sea otters have reached the highest level since 1982.


The USGS report, released on Sept. 19, showed that the number of sea otters living along the California coast...
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Polar bear

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Remarkable adaptations allow polar bears to live in the frozen Arctic, but global warming is destroying their habitat and leaving them seriously endangered. Despite being born deaf and blind beneath the snow, cubs eventually grow into the most powerful of all four-legged animals.

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New US ivory regulations mark a victory in the fight to save elephants

Setting an example for the world in the fight to save elephants, the United States has finalized new regulations that will help shut down commercial elephant ivory trade within its borders and stop wildlife crime overseas.
The change in US elephant ivory policy shifts the burden to the...
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Join WWF and Jack Black in protecting wild pandas and their habitat

In celebration of Kung Fu Panda 3, releasing January 29th 2016, WWF is working to raise awareness about the plight of giant pandas through a video with the film’s star, Jack Black. In Kung Fu Panda 3, the main character Po, played by Black, teams up with his father and his friends to save a n...
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Arctic sea ice hits second-lowest extent on record

The Arctic’s summer sea ice appears to have hit its lowest extent of the year, putting pressure on the region’s diverse wildlife. Ice covered only 1.6 million square miles on Sept. 10, and 2016 is now tied with 2007 for the second-lowest sea ice extent on record, according to the US National ...
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Celebrating an amazing two years of zero rhino poaching in Nepal

Nepal marked two consecutive years since its last rhino was poached on May 2, 2014. This exceptional success is a result of a combination of high-level political will and government entities, and the active involvement of conservation communities.
The country achieved two other periods of...
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For the first time in 100 years, tiger numbers are growing

Governments of countries with tiger populations came together in 2010 to pledge the goal of doubling wild tiger numbers by 2022. Our work is not done: these countries are meeting again this month to report on their progress and commit to next steps to help tigers rebound.
Tracking tiger...
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Let’s keep offshore oil and gas drilling out of the Arctic’s most pristine spots

The Arctic serves as the proverbial canary in a coal mine for climate change, warming at twice the rate as the rest of the world. These rising temperatures impact both the wildlife and people who rely on the region for food and shelter. It’s also driving a new “cold rush,” a race to claim Arc...
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Whales might be hidden, but these new buoys can help find them

How do you find whales that dive so deep and spend so little time at the surface that some species have never been observed alive? Sometimes you just have to listen closely.

Thanks to a newly developed system of drifting buoys, scientists from NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center...
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Army Specialist and Bomb-Sniffing Dog Partner Share Big Hug After 3 Years Apart

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Ikar, a 5-year-old Czech shepherd, proved just how deep dog loyalty goes last Thursday.
Even though Ikar and his human battle buddy, U.S. Army Specialist Vance McFarland, spent three years apart, the canine recognized him instantly during their reunion at the Boise, Idaho, airport,...
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Trees recognize roe deer by saliva

In spring, the young, delicate shoots in the forest light up, bright and May green. The buds and shoots are the future of the forests as they allow young trees to grow. The problem for the trees is: Roe deer like to eat them, and especially their buds. With a bit of luck, the young, gnawed...
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Man's Best Friend: Dying Dog Lives Long Enough to See His Best Pal Get Married

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Charlie Bear, a 15-year-old dog, once again showed that dogs are truly man’s best friend as he battled a dreadful disease just to live long enough to see his pal walk down the aisle.


The story of Charlie has taken social medias by storm. Charlie was...
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Peregrine falcon

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Peregrine falcons are one of, if not the, fastest animals in the world. They are believed to achieve speeds of over 300 kph when plunging from the sky after prey. This iconic bird of prey is also one of the world’s most widely distributed birds, found on every continent except...
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A glimpse of a humpback whale swimming just beneath the surface

Whales roam through all of the world’s oceans, communicating with complex and hauntingly beautiful sounds.
Their behavior is the most fascinating, least understood, most difficult to study, and least funded area of whale research today. So little is known about whale behavior that it is r...
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New US regulations around captive tigers could provide a boost for wild tigers

Tiger populations fighting for a comeback in the wild will receive a much needed lifeline from the United States government. Improved and tightened regulations around captive tigers will make it more difficult for captive-bred tigers to filter into and stimulate the illegal wildlife trade...
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How rangers are working to save tigers

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WWF: What are the six pillars?
RS: The first pillar is assessments. What’s the status of your protected area? The second is the technology. Nowadays, you need the best technology to protect animals.
Third is communities. If the people living around your protected area are not supporting yo...
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Nepal welcomes a new baby rhino

With immense pleasure, we’re welcoming the birth of one very special rhino in Nepal! 
Moved from one national park to another earlier this year to establish new populations in areas where they used to exist, a rhino gave birth to the male calf on May 22—an encouraging sign that the mother is ...
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America the beautiful: a look at some of the country"s most fascinating animals

We’re all quick to recognize the beauty of elephants roaming through Africa and Asia, the tigers traversing Southeast Asia and the far reaches of Russia and China, and the charismatic gorillas of the Congo basin. But the United States also hosts an abundance of beautiful, iconic animals that ...
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Sea turtles and shrimp cocktail: what’s the connection?

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Sea turtles are some of the most majestic, long-living animals in the ocean, yet hundreds of thousands of them are accidentally caught and die in shrimp nets and other fishing gear each year. Endangered loggerheads, green turtles, and leatherbacks are especially vulnerable.
WWF works with...
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First twins born to habituated gorilla family in the Central African Republic

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“These are the first twins ever recorded in Dzanga-Sangha and their birth is an incredible moment for everyone who has worked so hard to habituate and conserve these gorillas over the past 16 years,” said David Greer, the leader of WWF’s African great apes program, who worked in Dzang...
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Giant panda no longer Endangered

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In a welcome piece of good news for the world’s threatened wildlife, the giant panda has just been downgraded from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Vulnerable’ on the global list of species at risk of extinction, demonstrating how an integrated approach can help save our planet’s vanishing biodiversit...
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Rampant poaching threatens former elephant stronghold in Tanzania

Rampant ivory poaching has reduced the elephant population in Tanzania’s oldest and largest protected area by 90 percent in fewer than 40 years.
Nearly 110,000 elephants used to roam the savannas, wetlands, and forests of Selous Game Reserve—a World Heritage Site—in the mid-1970s. Now only 15...
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Genetic analysis uncovers four species of giraffe, not just one

Up until now, scientists had only recognized a single species of giraffe made up of several subspecies. But, according to the most inclusive genetic analysis of giraffe relationships to date, giraffes actually aren’t one species, but four. For comparison, the genetic differences among...
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Bird brain? Ounce for ounce birds have significantly more neurons in their brains than mammals or primates

The macaw has a brain the size of an unshelled walnut, while the macaque monkey has a brain about the size of a lemon. Nevertheless, the macaw has more neurons in its forebrain — the portion of the brain associated with intelligent behavior — than the macaque.

That is one of the...
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What's hiding behind the trapdoor?

Australia is known as a country full of deadly creatures – now people have trapdoor spiders hiding in their backyards.

The mysteriously elusive creatures are hiding in most forests in Brisbane and are tucked away in national parks throughout the state of Queensland, Australia.
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Digitizing North America's butterfly and moth collections

This fall researchers at the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia will lead an effort to digitize around 2.1 million specimens from the order Lepidoptera — moths and butterflies — and to make that data available to scientists studying climate, natural...
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Drones for butterfly conservation

High-resolution aerial photographs provide information that is both up-to-date and tailored for the task at hand — information that could previously only be obtained by observations in the field and only for a limited spatial area. For the very first time, a team of scientists led by...
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Seeing the forest for the trees: World's largest reforestation program overlooks wildlife

After years of environmental destruction, China has spent billions of dollars on the world’s largest reforestation program, converting a combined area nearly the size of New York and Pennsylvania back to forest.

The government-backed effort, known as the Grain-for-Green Program, has...
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Birds choose spring neighbors based on winter ‘friendships’

Great tits pick their spring breeding sites to be near their winter flockmates, according to new research into the social networks of birds from the University of Oxford.

The study shows that as mated pairs of great tits settle down to breed in the spring, they establish their homes in...
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Whales' ultrasonic hearing has surprisingly ancient history, fossilized ear shows

All living toothed whales rely upon echoes of their own calls to navigate and hunt underwater, a skill that works best in conjunction with high-frequency hearing. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on August 4 who studied one of the best-preserved ears of any...
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Endangered right whale population threatened by entanglements and dramatically declining birth rate

The most endangered large whale species in the Atlantic is threatened by increasing rates of lethal and debilitating entanglements and a dramatic 40% decline in birth rates since 2010. About 500 North Atlantic right whales still survive after two decades period of modest annual growth, but...
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Robo-fish, mimicking nature land professor with U.S. department of the navy research grant

By observing how fish swim and use their fins to move seamlessly within the ocean depths, a researcher at Florida Atlantic University is mimicking this movement to increase maneuverability and enhance the motion of underwater vehicles and robotic systems. To advance this research area, Oscar...
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Risk to small children from family dog often underestimated

Children love petting dogs, playing with them and crawling after them. They especially love to hug or cuddle the family dog. Unwanted close contact sometimes causes dogs to feel harassed and they respond by snapping at the child. Many cases of dog bites involving small children happen in...
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Happy National Dog Day! We've Got the Details on How Emmy Rossum Will Celebrate

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If there were a National ‘Best Pet Owner’ Day, Emmy Rossum would definitely win. But, for now, she is taking this day to honor her furry loved ones with some delicious sweet treats from the nation’s #1 cupcake hotspot.
“They will probably get little dog cupcakes from Sprinkles,” says the Sh...
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Vincent, a Morbidly Obese Dachshund, Is Beating the Odds on His Weight Loss Journey to 'Skinny Vinnie'

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Bats use second sense to hunt prey in noisy environments

Like many predators, the fringe-lipped bat primarily uses its hearing to find its prey, but with human-generated noise on the rise, scientists are examining how bats and other animals might adapt to find their next meal. According to a new study, when noise masks the mating calls of the...
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Zolushka sighting: The tiger Cinderella story continues

Brought into captivity as a nearly starved, 3-month old cub, the tigress that became known as Zolushka (Russian for “Cinderella”) flourished in a rehabilitation center designed to prepare her for life back in the wild. Without a mother (probably lost to poachers) Zolushka learned...
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Freshwater stingrays chew their food just like a goat

A new University of Toronto study has found that some freshwater stingrays from the Amazon chew their food in a similar fashion as mammals.

Using a combination of high-speed video and CT scans Matthew Kolmann, a recently graduated PhD in the lab of U of T Scarborough’s Nathan Lovejoy...
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First Domesticated Foxes Bred in Russia With Dog Traits Like Licking, Tail Wagging

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Sep 17, 2016 06:26 AM EDT



Are foxes man’s new best friend? In Russia, there’s now a choice after geneticist Dmitry Belyaev began a breeding program 50 years ago.


There are plenty of people who would want to take the adorable looking fox home. However, a regular fox from...
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Dead Humpback Whale Beached in Sea Isle City

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Sep 17, 2016 08:20 AM EDT



The carcass of a young humpback whale washed up in Sea Isle City on Friday afternoon, 3.p.m.


According to Press of Atlantic City, the whale was previously spotted off the coast of Strathmere earlier in the day. The humpback whale’s cause of death is ...
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No More Fowl Love: Stop Kissing Chickens, They Can Give Salmonella, CDC Warns

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Sep 16, 2016 05:42 AM EDT



If you or your children have a habit of kissing your pet chickens, it may be best to refrain from the fowl affection. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that kissing chickens can give you salmonella infection.


In the ...
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61-Year-Old Man Contracts Rare Fatal Pneumonia from His Pet Parrots

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Sep 15, 2016 04:17 AM EDT



A 61-year-old contracted a rare illness that is related with parrots. The unidentified man had been sick for a week before he went to the hospital. By the time he arrived at the hospital, he was already suffering respiratory failure, and with serious flu-like...
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Consequences of Climate Change: Polar Bears to have Shorter Hunting, Breeding Season, NASA Says

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Sep 15, 2016 04:55 AM EDT



Global warming has demonstrated its capacity to influence many industries on Earth such as coffee farming, coral reef growth and it has even instigated sea level rise. However, there are more pressing effects that need immediate solution. According to NASA,...
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Smart Animals: Critically Endangered Hawaiian Crow Capable of Proficiently Using Tools

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Sep 15, 2016 05:28 AM EDT



An international team lead by scientists from the University of St. Andrews in United Kingdom have discovered that the critically-endangered Hawaiian Crow, or locally known as Alalā, is a highly proficient tool user.


Their discovery, described in a paper ...
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ALERT: Large Marine Species Most Likely to Die First in the Sixth Mass Extinction Event

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Sep 15, 2016 05:44 AM EDT



A new study revealed that large ocean-dwelling animals are at great risk to be the first one to be wiped out during a sixth mass extinction event.


The study, published in the journal Science, suggests a kind of extinction that were unlike the past five...
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