Biologists use drones blasting music and voices to keep wolves away from livestock
For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones.…
Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex
Fijarczyk, A. & Babik, W. Detecting balancing selection in genomes: limits and prospects. Mol. Ecol. 24, 3529–3545 (2015).…
AP photos show an injured elephant frequenting an Indian village as its habitat shrinks
GUWAHATI, India (AP) — For months an injured male elephant has been frequenting a village on the outskirts…
Bull moose on Adirondack trail euthanized because of deteriorating health
A bull moose whose lingering presence around an Adirondack mountain hiking trail this summer forced its closure was…
Black rhino numbers have increased but there’s bad news for others
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The number of critically endangered black rhinos has increased slightly, but there…
Scientists identify the killer of 5 billion starfish
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5…
South Africa injects rhino horns with radioactive material to curb poaching
MOKOPANE, South Africa (AP) — A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns…
Seals sing ‘otherworldly’ songs structured like nursery rhymes | News
When male leopard seals dive down into icy Antarctic waters, they sing songs structured like nursery rhymes in…
South Africa starts injecting rhino horns with radioactive material to curb poaching
MOKOPANE, South Africa. — A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns of…
Week in wildlife: a rescued monkey, squabbling jays and an amputee camel | Environment
Yong, a six-year-old pigtailed macaque rescued from a life harvesting coconuts, gets a vasectomy at the Wildlife Friends…
Shotgun sequencing of airborne eDNA achieves rapid assessment of whole biomes, population genetics and genomic variation
Permitting The analysis of human-derived eDNA from field obtained samples and human-related sampling was conducted with University of…