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Endangered species’ poop could help fight diabetic foot ulcers

Apes, health, Humans, Interspecies relationships, Monkeys, Primates / By MikeB / September 21, 2023

The Times reports on a University of Sheffield article describing research that they have done on using the poop of endangered animals to kill certain bacterial species including superbugs which are resistant …

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A Burchell's zebra and a cattle egret at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve in South Africa

Commensalism: cattle egret eats insects stirred up by grazing Burchell’s zebra

Commensalism / By MikeB / May 22, 2022

It is International Day for Biological Diversity and people ask what is commensalism. The search engine, Bing, has an example on the home page today which is a downloadable wallpaper photograph by …

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