Ecology & Zoology
- Giraffes In East Africa Are Geographically Isolated- That Doesn't Mean They Are Endangered
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One way to keep a healthy genetic population is a diverse enough group that there can be a random exchange of material. If that is a big factor, then geographically isolated giraffes on preserves may be at future risk. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 19 2023 - 2:08pm
- Strawberries: Two Science Reasons They're Bigger And Better This Year
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Environmental Working Group, the Extinction Rebellion of affordable produce, is always in a war on strawberries- unless they only contain pesticides their organic industry corporate donors use or sell. For the scientifically literate, those with at least t ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 17 2023 - 10:03am
- Beekeepers Are Wrong About Overwinter Hive Behavior
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Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for over a century because commercial hive designs are based on erroneous science, my new research shows. ...
Article - The Conversation - Nov 25 2023 - 5:02am
- Weekend Science: Carp Sense Geomagnetic Fields
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Czech researchers have hypothesized that carp in large tubs at Christmas markets possess a capacity to sense geomagnetic fields. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 28 2023 - 9:52am
- Want More Milk? Name Your Cow, Says Study- And They're Serious
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Name it and the milk will come, say scientists at Newcastle University. It's not "Field of Dreams" it's Milk of Dreams. Or whatever analogy you want to use for a correlation-causation fantasy that leads to a conclusion that a cow wit ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 27 2024 - 11:08am
- Why Some Female Whales Live So Long: Menopause
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Humans and five whale species are the only mammals known to go through menopause. Why is unclear but a new study sought answers. Scientists found that females of short-finned pilot whales, false killer whales, killer whales, narwhals and beluga whales and ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2024 - 2:16pm
- First Nation Shell Middens And True Oysters
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One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida, (Carpenter, 1864). While rare today, these are British Columbia’s only native oyster. Had you been dining on their brethren in the 1800s or earlier, it w ...
Article - Heidi Henderson - Mar 24 2024 - 10:40pm
- Study: Fish With A Mirror Check Their Body Size Before Fights With Bigger Opponents
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Researchers in Scientific Reports are claiming the first non-human instance of an animal possessing some mental states (e.g., mental body image, standards, intentions, goals), which are elements of private self-awareness. They show that Labroides dimidiatu ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2024 - 9:32am
- Honeybees Are Boutique Agriculture: Here's What Keepers Want Almond Farmers To Do
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Despite nearly two decades of marketing campaigns insisting bees are in decline and science is to blame, the data show otherwise. Bees are not entirely irrelevant in the food supply, and do valuable pollination work in nature, but there are 25,000 other sp ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 13 2025 - 2:46pm
- Bathynomus Vaderi: The Sea Bug Of Your New 'Star Wars' Nightmare
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If a giant bọ biển (“sea bug”) in Vietnam hasn't been 'named' by an academic in a journal, does it really exist? Yes, because they are impossible to miss. Isopods of the genus Bathynomus are 10 inches long so they are hard to miss, but disco ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 15 2025 - 2:49pm
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