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Date Time Cultural lives of animals revealed The idea that only humans have culture and that this neatly separates us from animals is challenged by an extensive review of decades of research into animal culture by a leading expert in animal behaviour at the University of St Andrews. Professor Andrew Whiten, Emeritus Wardlaw Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews, argues the case in a wide-ranging review published in the journal Science surveying all that has been discovered in recent decades about how...

The Marshall Liberal Government is urging people travelling over the long weekend to leave their fruit at home as South Australia continues to battle...

Plums are gaining more and more hectares in Argentina The area devoted to plum cultivation in Argentina continues to increase and currently exceeds 12,000 hectares, which are mainly concentrated in the provinces of Mendoza and Rio Negro. The industry packages and preserves the fresh fruit to market it in the domestic market; and produces preserves, pulps and juices, jams, jellies and dried fruit (with and without stone), to export abroad. Argentine plum production is strengthened by the actions implemented by Senasa's National Program for the Control and Eradication of Fruit Flies (Procem). S...

Researchers uncover how some animals sense the gritty texture of their food By Harrison Tasoff Santa Barbara, CA There's more to taste than flavor....

Date Time Why male mosquitoes leave humans alone A side-by-side comparison of the fruitless gene in the female (left) and male (right) mosquito brain. Male mosquitoes won’t bite you. For one thing, they cannot-males are hopelessly bad at finding humans and lack a specialized stylet to pierce your skin. But even if they could bite you, they would not want to. They refuse blood meals served to them in the lab through netting, even as their female counterparts engorge on what must appear to be a free lunch. Now, a new study from the laboratory of Rockefeller’s Leslie Vosshall helps explain w...