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Hornbills are the farmers of the forest as they farm their own food-rich patches through their seed dispersal.

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Horsetalk.co.nz Artificial intelligence predicts unknown links between viruses and mammals Share An abstract representation of networks of (1) observed and (2) predicted associations between wild and semi-domesticated mammalian hosts and known virus species. Image: Dr Maya Wardeh Scientists appear to be under-estimating the reach of viruses, in terms of the number of animal species they are capable of infecting, research findings suggest. Thousands of viruses are known to affect mammal...

Editor's note: As the world watches a herd of wild Asian elephants that has left its habitat, marched north and is wandering in Yunnan province, China Daily will publish a series of stories following the elephants' movements and covering the environment they live in.

Elephant biologist links recent Chinese elephant herd migration journey with mammoths ability to retain memories; doodles the famous napping scene to shine a light on dynamics of the man-elephant interactions.

A study finds evergreen forests are quite resilient to logging compared to deciduous forests.

/PRNewswire/ -- Integral Consulting Inc. is pleased to announce that Theodore Tomasi, Ph.D., and Miranda Henning, M.E.M., are joining the firms leadership as...

Professor Jay Hinton has received a second prestigious Wellcome Investigator Award to further his world-leading research on 'killer' African...

When I suggested to Souvik Mandal that he explore the behaviour of wasps away from their nest and the lab, he jumped at the idea.

28/04/2021 Krishnappa Chandrashekara delivering a lecture during the ‘Being Social’ symposium organised by the author’s students in June 2013 at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc. Photo: RG Lab Collection The evolutionary biologist and polymath J.B.S. Haldane is said to have remarked that “The universe is not only queerer than we imagine but queerer than we can imagine.” And one of those many queer things is that there are more species of beetles than any other kind ...