[unable to retrieve full-text content]Despite the bad rap snakes often get, they are more central to ecology than most people realize. New research reveals that snakes might even play a key role in dispersing plant seeds....
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Competing for blood: How ecologists are solving infectious disease mysteries
[unable to retrieve full-text content]By looking at malaria infections and hookworms as competitors battling over a key resource -- red blood cells -- ecologists were able to explain why co-infected patients often got sicker after being dewormed: without the hookworms to keep it in check, the malaria infection ran rampant....
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'Spectacular' finding: New 3-D vision discovered in praying mantis
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Miniature glasses have revealed a new form of 3-D vision in praying mantises that could lead to simpler visual processing for robots....
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Termites' unique gut 'factory' key to global domination
Termites have achieved ecological dominance and now some of the ingredients for their success have been determined to lie in their unique gut microbiome 'factories' -- which enable the creatures to eat wood, soil and other material generally not considered as food sources by other animals but rather as indigestible.
An international research paper, led by...
Alien honeybees could cause plant extinction
[unable to retrieve full-text content]New research indicates that introduced 'alien' honeybees are competing for resources with native bees and threatening the survival of plants that rely on interactions with specific pollinators....
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New measures could help tackle tragic consequences of poorly bred puppies, say vets
08 February 2018
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Effective legislation must be backed by adequate resources to guarantee dog welfare
Responding to Michael Gove's call for evidence on banning third party puppy sales, and the raft of measures laid in Parliament today, the President of the British Veterinary Association John Fishwick said:
“As vets, we see first-hand the tragic consequences that can...