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David Attenborough’s ‘Mammals’ Is a Breathtaking Wonder
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News UK· 3 days agoFor more than 40 years, Sir David Attenborough has given voice to the natural world, producing and...
‘Everyone was paddling to get away’: seals with rabies alarm South Africa’s surfers
The Guardian· 5 days agoBeing in Cape Town – a great white shark hotspot – it’s hard not to assume the worst. Now, nine seals have tested positive for rabies – the world’s first significant outbreak of the disease ...
Pod of 77 beached Orkney whales were 'healthy' before mass stranding
Daily Record· 2 days agoA pod of 77 pilot whales that became beached in Orkney were healthy before they became stranded,...
US cases of avian flu in cattle are causing concern. How prepared is Europe for the bird flu threat?
Euronews via Yahoo News UK· 4 days agoThe US outbreak is not the only one on experts’ radars. Cases of avian flu caused by different...
Vestiges of Scales in the Fox - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoIN the case of such a familiar animal as the fox it might well have been supposed that everything worth knowing in the matter of its bodily structure had already been recorded ...
Major operation to find cause of whale pod stranding in Orkney
BBC News· 4 days agoCetacean specialists - whose expertise is in aquatic mammals - will use tissue samples to establish...
Remaining whales stranded in Orkney euthanised as council plans burial for 77 giant mammals
Daily Record via Yahoo News UK· 4 days agoShe said: “They’re working with the council at the moment to organise where these animals are going...
Can wild animals handle the heat? – DW – 07/10/2024
Deutsche Welle· 6 days agoTemperatures across the globe are rising as economies increasingly pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — 2023 was the hottest year on record. The...
Social Organization of Rats in a “Social Problem” Situation - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoIt is not then surprising that relatively little work has been done on small mammals such as the rat, because rats do not appear to be especially influenced by each other's ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 4 days ago—Mammals collected in South-West Australia for Mr. W. E. Balston: Oldfield... Hampson, Bart., who enumerated the sixty-three species of which specimens were obtained. Of these ...