It's becoming a routine ritual on the crowded, colorful streets of Delhi, India: A small team of men surrounds a wandering cow, attempting to coax it on to a waiting truck for a trip to a suburban reserve. But the cow catchers need to be ...
It may be impossible to ever know exactly where and when the practice of falconry -- the training of raptors to hunt wild prey for humans -- arose. Some experts place its origins between 4,000 and 6,000 BC in the steppes of Mongolia. Other historians ...
Web Sites Cool Antarctica http://www.coolantarctica.com/index.html This site contains pictures, general information and a travel guide of Antarctica. National Science Foundation: Arctic & Antarctic Research Overview http://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/arcticantarctic/index.jsp Learn more about the research NSF is doing in the Antarctic. NSF manages the U.S. Antarctic Program, which coordinates ...
Do you owe your life to a chimpanzee? Over the last century, millions of people have been able to live longer, healthier lives thanks to the medicines and surgical techniques that were tested on chimpanzees -- one of humankind's closest relatives. Dozens of vaccines, for ...
In the Antarctic, krill, which means "whale food" in Norwegian, sustain not only whales, but also penguins, seals, squid, fish, albatross, and other seabirds. These small, shrimp-like creatures represent the very cornerstone of the Antarctic ecosystem -- processing the energy of the sun stored in ...
We've all heard them: the tales of dogs barking before the big earthquake hit; wildlife behaving strangely before the big hurricane; earthworms pouring out of the ground just before the big flood strikes. Tall tales ... or true? Researchers say it's probably a little bit ...
Articles A Sharp Spike in Honeybee Deaths Deepens a Worrisome Trend (May 13, 2015) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/us/honeybees-mysterious-die-off-appears-to-worsen.html BBC: Nature News "Honeybee virus: Varroa mite spreads lethal disease" (June 7, 2012) http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18339797 A parasitic mite has helped a virus wipe out billions of honeybees throughout the globe, say ...
As we learn in NATURE's Murder in the Troop, life for a chacma baboon is defined by strict hierarchical structure. Among the most highly socialized of animal species, chacmas rely on a complex and varied communication system in order to candidly express themselves to family, ...
