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What do captive flamingos do at night, when their zoo or wildlife park is closed?
Without the threat of predators and with food provided, it's easy to imagine they would just stand on one leg, snoozing.
But research by the University of Exeter shows captive flamingos do more foraging and roam more widely in their enclosure at...
The MRSA staphylococcus is an example of a pathogen, the likes of which are often called superbugs. These are resistant to most antibiotics and can cause serious infections.
"In the case of MRSA, these bacteria have also spread in hospitals almost world-wide," says Jukka Corander, professor at the University of Helsinki, who was a member of...
One of the great puzzles of evolutional biology is what induced certain living creatures to abandon solitary existence in favor of living in collaborative societies, as seen in the case of ants and other social, colony-forming insects. A major characteristic of so-called eusocial species is the division of labor between queens that lay eggs and...
The cloud forests of Honduras can seem like an otherworldly place, where the trees are thick with life that takes in water straight from the air around it, and the soundscape is littered with the calls of animals singing back and forth.
Otherworldly, yes, but scientists have found that the cloud forests are not immune to...