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MELAKA: A tranquil atmosphere prevails at the Melaka Zoo due to the movement control order. Without the daily intrusion of visitors, there is much-needed space for zoo animals to express their natural behaviour and interact freely with their kind. Its zoology unit head Azman Ghazali said when visitors were allowed in, the animals were often seen to be passive and would even shy away. Changes in the behaviour of the animals are evident now even in the mating behaviour of a group of six black panthers. “There are six panthers at the Melaka Zoo and we have observed the mating pattern of four o...

Navel Orangworm: the Arch-Nemesis A reminder of the seriousness of Navel Orangeworm in nut crops. David Haviland is a UCANR farm advisor and Kern County. He specializes in Integrated Pest Management control of Navel Orangeworm. “We know it's the arch-nemesis every year, that each of you deal with, and we do know that it requires an integrated approach. So anyone listening that thinks there's a silver bullet to Navel Orangeworm, there is not,” said Haviland. “You really do need to do sanitation, be monitoring, using insecticides, and an early to timely harvest. So in the pis...

Male Mantises Evolved a Vital Trick to Avoid Being Decapitated After Sex MARLOWE HOOD & ELEONORE HUGHES, AFP 21 JANUARY 2021 A male Springbok praying mantis looking for a hook-up doesn't have to worry about a female stealing his heart away. There is, however, a very good change she'll bite his head off, and he knows it.   Indeed, 60 percent of sexual encounters between Springboks – one of nearly 2,000 mantis species across the globe – end in males being eaten as a snack. "Males play Russian roulette whenever they encounter cannibalistic females," explained Nathan Burke, an entomol...

Female praying mantises often attack their mates during a sexual encounter, but some males attack too - and if they fail to win the fight they end up as lunch