NEWS AND COMMENT: I’m astonished to learn that within a few months of being born a moose living in New England, USA, can acquire 50,000 ticks. The problem is that moose are inflexible creatures which means that they don’t have the ability to lick or …
It’s been found that discarded tires lying on the seabed are death traps for hermit crabs. They climb into the tyres but can’t get out because the walls are concave. It’s as simple as that. I suppose they climb into them for protection but it …
GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK, MOZAMBIQUE-NEWS AND COMMENT: This is an interesting example of how the intervention of humans can inadvertently alter the course of evolution. The story is also interesting for the fact that, looking at the story from a different angle, it is as if …
China has mitigated the impact on the conservation of the white dolphin when building a bridge across the estuary of the Pearl River. China has hailed the success of their plan to improve conservation despite constructing a bridge which might have had the opposite effect. …
Here are two wonderful photographs of the gerenuk. As you can guess from the photographs, this interesting species of antelope is also known as the giraffe gazelle. You can see them standing on their hind legs in a perfectly vertical position feeding on high branches …
The Times reports today (Oct 11, 2021) that undersea electricity cables cause brown crab to sit still. It seems that the electromagnetic field around the cables, which is about 5% of the power of a fridge door magnet, mesmerises them, and because they sit still, …
India’s Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Environment, Forests and Climate Change (wow, what a title!), Ashwini Kumar Choubey, wants to change the name of the well-known Jim Corbett National Park, India’s biggest wildlife sanctuary, to its previous name which …
This is Ndakasi with her caretaker and lifelong friend Andre Bauma, a park ranger who cared for her. I don’t know but this might be the moment when Ndakasi died in the arms of Bauma. We are not told that but it seems likely or …
It is a troubling picture: a gradual decrease in awareness of nature and biodiversity since about the middle of the 19th century. It indicates a gradual disconnect from nature which I would suggest is a major reason why the planet is in the state it …
