“We knew that many animals, including humans, can accumulate quite significant electrostatic charges,” said Dr. Sam England, who is a postdoctoral scientist at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, but ...
From chimps tending wounds with bug juice to birds using cigarettes to ward of ticks and lice, animals have adapted creative ways to ward off health threats. Monarch caterpillars snack on milkweed, ...
When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...
The two species of African rhinoceros are conservation icons. Large, charismatic, and vitally important for their ecosystems, to lose either species would be a devastating blow. But what of their ...
When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...
May 24 (UPI) --Animals self-medicate with plants − behavior people have observed and emulated for millennia A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY Adrienne ...
Parasitic weeds extract water and nutrients from their host plants. But what makes these parasites so successful? A study led ...