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 …
This is a bit of fun and it is about the animal-human relationship in a strict sense! I just like the expression on Vincent Price’s face. It makes a good screenshot image which hopefully catches the eye on the Internet. The repeating .gif video is …
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. …
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, …
After seven years of thinking and research, Zhi-Ming Yuan, has figured out why ducklings swim in a neat, nicely spaced row behind their mother. It is not just about ducklings sticking close to their mother for protection, it’s about hard science. They are using a …
Some of the Reddit comments: In soviet Russia canned fish eats you! Looks like that fish came from Chernobyl. SOME MORE ON MARINE WILDLIFE:
The teeth are remarkably like a human’s. This fish was apparently spotted by some beachgoers in the Outer Banks in North Carolina. The picture is published on Jeannette’s Pier via Facebook entitled “Fish with terrifying teeth”. As you might expect the fish is named after …
The Times reports that fish can become addicted to drugs like people. Dr. Pavel Horky, from Prague, in the Journal of Experiment Biology, tells us that where you have meth users their drug gets into the water and brown trout show all the signs of …
I recently wrote about male dolphins who remember other males who did not come to their aid when they needed it. They bore a grudge against these individuals to the point where they wouldn’t help them, indicating sophisticated behaviour. The same team of researchers also …
