Why do Alaskan bears open car doors with their mouths or paws? Well, it is said that bears have a sense of smell which is seven times better than that of a bloodhound, which is pretty extraordinary and it means that they can pick up …
A team of scientists at Universidade Federald de Goiás have worked out, through a complex calculation, that the value of see bird droppings or guano is worth £840 million a year in terms of fertilising crops and delivering nutrients to coral reefs and boosting fish …
Dr. Melvin Vopson of the University of Portsmouth has painted an interesting if not bleak picture of the long-term future of the planet. Digital information is broken down into bits, the smallest unit of data. He says that the number of bits of digital data …
This is a really nice photograph of a dog on a motorcycle in Vietnam wearing a coronavirus face covering as is his human companion and his friend. Vietnam has a very low infection and death rate from this virus so I guess these people are …
A forty-three mile fence has been constructed by Denemark along the border with Germany. It covers the entire length of their border. It is designed to stop wild boar in Germany crossing the border and breeding with farm pigs in Denmark. The Danish export twenty-eight …
I’ve used the word “confident” in the title. I need to be a bit more precise in describing what happens to a pigeon’s mentality when you add weights to their legs. It sounds bizarre but this is what researchers did. They wanted to test whether …
NEWS AND VIEWS AND UPDATE: Her name is Ethel, and she is an apparently wild but gentle emu who appears to have made the area around Doncaster in the north of England her home. She appears not to have an owner and has become a …
NEWS-VIEWS: PETA allege that monkeys in Thailand are forced to climb trees to pick coconuts for milk which is sold by brands such as Chaokoh. When the monkeys are not working PETA report that they are confined to cramped cages with no shelter from the …
The domestic dog is a domesticated grey wolf plus thousands of years of evolution as a domestic animal plus selective breeding. We all know that the wild ancestor of the domestic dog is the modestly-sized wolf from Asia. I am thinking of the Indian wolf …
