Conservation
Leopards: Diverse Genes, Hyena Dangers and Distinctive Calls
In addition to being beautiful, African leopards are adaptable, elusive and versatile animals. Now, we can add genetically diverse to that list.
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Nature & Wildlife
Feathers, Hair or Scales: Not Much Difference
Feathers, hair and scales. While it might seem that there’s a lot of difference between these natural “coverings” on animals, they have more in common than you’d probably think. Despite their multitude of forms, all three of these vertebrate skin appendages share early developmental processes at the embryonic stage.
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Nature & Wildlife
Animal Sight Is Tied to Landscape
Animals see the world through all kinds of different eyes: from simple ones that can only tell the difference between dark and light, to complex eyes that can see colors and perceive depth. It was once thought that animals, including cats and dogs, could only see in black and white.
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Asia & The Pacific
Studies of Extinct Ibex Could Save Today’s Tigers
The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) officially became extinct in January 2000, when a falling tree landed on Celia, the world’s last wild Pyrenean ibex. Unfortunately, what led up to that unhappy incident was a sad history for this wild mountain goat. Several species of ibex once lived across Africa, Asia and Europe.
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Canada & the North
Brown Bears and Polar Bears and Their Tangled Histories
A “time line” of nearly any animal’s existence is an almost-oxymoron, if you ask me. Time lines can make things seem as if they progressed in a linear manner. But life is a lot messier than that. Sometimes things go forward, then back again, and they can even do loop the loops and veer sideways.