Vale Roger Short, 1930–2021
Vet, zoologist, and reproductive biologist Roger Short was a success in many fields, but it was h...
Daniel Stefanski was a third-year medical student in 1994 when he attended a lecture that changed his life. The lectu...
zoology
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How seals adapted to move through water
Collaboration of zoologists and engineers solves seal “evolutionary riddle”.
Have you ever wondered how seals learned to perform their skilled underwater acrobatics?Zoologist David Hocking, ...
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Dolphin sex isn’t just about babies
Copulation is as much about bonding as babies.
World-first examinations of the dolphin clitorises suggest that sex may be a pleasurable exercise for the marine mamm...
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Alan Turing’s equations explain shark skin
Model explains patterning across vertebrate lineage.
Alan Turing’s explanation for how modern animals developed their scales, feathers and hair may have even broader appl...
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Doubts cast on Indo orangutan report
Zoologists question the reliability of number increase claims.
Wildlife researchers have criticised a report by the Indonesian government, saying its estimate that orangutan popula...
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A species dazzlingly revealed
Researchers find a coloured fish, never before seen.
Off the coast of Brazil, more than 120 metres below the surface of the ocean, lives a newly discovered, rare and stri...
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Spying on pretty flamingos
What do captive birds do when the zoo is closed?
What do zoo animals get up to when the gates are closed and the visitors and staff gone home?It’s an entrancing que...
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Buzz off! Elephants give bees a wide berth
Beehives may resolve conflict between elephants and farmers.
Despite the well-known cartoon image of an elephant being terrified by a mouse, there is no formal evidence of these ...
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18 new species of spiders that look like pelicans
Once thought extinct, the pelican spiders turn out to be highly diverse.
There are wolf spiders (family Lycosidae), mouse spiders (Missulena occatoria), lynx spiders (family Oxyopidae), and ...
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Zoos in last ditch fight to save endangered possum
Plan to boost genetic diversity might be the animals’ only chance.
Zoos in the Australian state of Victoria are engaged in a renewed effort to ensure the diminutive, large-eyed Leadbea...
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Anteater family grows by six species
Fieldwork and museum studies find evidence to divide a species into seven.
It’s time to rewrite a page of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the standard refere...
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Chimps happy to take turns playing video games
Cooperation on screen-based challenges requires no training, say zoologists.
Unlike many human children, chimpanzees are happy to take turns when it comes to playing computer games.This became...