By Anna Nordseth, Duke University - Phys.Org Imagine for a moment that you're 6,000 pounds, living in one of the wildest places on Earth, with no schedule, nowhere to be. How do you decide where to spend your time? Where to go next? Do you move where food is most...
By Dr Adam Cruise - Stellenbosch University Abstract Given that one-million species are currently threatened with extinction and that humans are undermining the entire natural infrastructure on which our modern world depends (IPBES, 2019), this dissertation will show...
ByNguyen Quy, VN Express An index created by international animal welfare charity World Animal Protection ranks 50 countries and territories around the world from A (being the best) to G based on their animal welfare policies and legislation. It considers 10...
By Willow Outhwaite - Traffic Cambridge, UK, 6th March 2020—a new TRAFFIC-authored study examines the thorny issue of corruption and how it relates to abuse of permitting systems operated to regulate wildlife trade under the Convention on International Trade in...
By Cell Press / Phys.Org Animals eating plants might seem like an obvious way to suppress fire, and humans are already using the enormous appetites of goats, deer, and cows to reduce the fuel available for potential wildfires. But other animals such as birds,...
By University of Southampton / Phys.Org A new study led from the University of Southampton has shown that threatened birds and mammals are often ecologically distinct and irreplaceable in their environment. Mammals such as the Asian elephant and the Sumatran...
By University of Bristol / Phys.Org About 800,000 years ago, the giant straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon migrated out of Africa and became widespread across Europe and Asia. It divided into many species, with distinct types in Japan, Central Asia and Europe—even...
By John R. Poulsen, Sally E. Koerner, Sarah Moore, Vincent P. Medjibe, Stephen Blake, Connie J. Clark, Mark Ella Akou, Michael Fay, Amelia Meier, Joseph Okouyi, Cooper Rosin, Lee J.T. White Summary Elephant populations are in peril everywhere, but forest elephants in...
By Sam Wong - Spring Hill Insider It’s another sleepless night in the savannah. Wild elephants average just 2 hours of sleep a night, making them the lightest-known snoozers of any mammal. Previous studies have looked at such habits in captive elephants, which sleep...
By ThereseLamperty, KaiZhu, John R.Poulsen, Amy E.Dunham Highlights • The density of forest understory was greater where frequent hunting occurred. • Understory density related significantly to two key groups: termites and spiders• Faunally-intact sites had 170× more...