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Credit: Dallas Levey An international team of researchers led by Oxford Brookes University shows that black howler monkeys in Mexico not only remember where important events took place in their habitat, but also when to return to such locations. The researchers recorded the behaviour of five groups of black howler monkeys accumulating over 3,000 hours of field observations at Palenque National Park, southern Mexico. Expert fruit foragers Black howler monkeys were observed navigating deliberately towards out of sight fruit trees that were ripening. Fruit is a desired food by many animals in...

This Friday Lake Superior Zoo will re-open with most indoor exhibits open to the public . Tickets must be purchased in advance.

BirdGuides c33fff47-d674-4c57-ab94-b6012a68c340 Despite COVID-19 restrictions and the risk of animal to human disease transmission, illegal wildlife trade on social media networks has continued, with wild animals sometimes sold as 'lockdown pets'. Having analysed around 20,000 Facebook posts about wild pet trade in a new paper, entited Online trade in wildlife and the lack of response to COVID-19, researchers from Oxford Brookes University and the University of Western Australia are urging increased governance on social media sites in order to curb potential extinctions ...

Covid-19 pandemic unable to stop illegal wildlife trade happening across social media December 24, 2020 × The Covid-19 pandemic, which is believed to be jumped from bats to humans, is unable to stop the illegal trading and poaching of wildlife. The trade continues to happen across social media networks, with wild animals sometimes sold as 'lockdown pets'. Wild pet trade The study carried by the researchers from Oxford Brookes University and the University of Western Australia analyzed around 20,000 Facebook posts about the wild pet trade. The researchers further called for increased govern...

 E-Mail Despite COVID-19 restrictions and the risk of animal to human disease transmission, illegal wildlife trade on social media networks has continued, with wild animals sometimes sold as 'lockdown pets'. Researchers from Oxford Brookes University and the University of Western Australia, having analysed around 20,000 Facebook posts about wild pet trade, are urging increased governance on social media sites in order to curb potential extinctions and reduce the risk of pandemics. With the current global pandemic of COVID-19, the role of wild animals in emerging infectious diseases (EID) is ...