[unable to retrieve full-text content]New research is calling for an urgent review into how populations of giraffes are managed in the wild when living alongside lions....
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Little wasp bodies mean little wasp brain regions
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new study looking at 19 species of paper wasps found that body size may lead to variation in the complex parts of their brains....
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Automated bird identification system based on bird calls and song
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Birds play an important role in a wide variety of ecosystems as both predator and prey, in controlling insect populations, pollinating and seed dispersal for many plants, and in releasing nutrients on to land and sea in the form of guano. From a scientific perspective it is therefore crucial to monitor...
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Lethal fungus that causes white-nose syndrome may have an Achilles' heel
[unable to retrieve full-text content]In the course of genomic analyses of the fungus behind white-nose-syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed millions of bats in North America, US Forest Service scientists discovered something very surprising: brief exposure to UV-light kills Pseudogymnoascus destructans....
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Social susceptibility: Leader-follower dynamics of influential individuals in a social group
[unable to retrieve full-text content]This is the story of a spider, small but bold. This particular arachnid, in fact, has helped to debunk the Great Man Theory, a 19th-century notion positing that highly influential individuals use their power -- be it personal charisma, intelligence, wisdom or political skill -- to maximize their impact in shaping...
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Invasive tree species: Call for action to tackle threat to a global biodiversity hotspot
[unable to retrieve full-text content]An invasive Australian tree is now posing a serious threat to a global diversity 'hotspot' in the natural forests of Jamaica's Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park. The tree species, Pittosporum undulatum, known locally as 'mock orange', is threatening many rare and endangered species, some of which are found nowhere...
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