In the forests of Cuba, there is a plant vine that needs bats in order to pollinate. Most flowers use brightly colored petals to attract pollinating animals to their nectar. Interestingly, the Marcgravia evenia plant vine uses sound.
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Dr. Andy Radford from the University of Bristol, England, studied 20 groups of green woodhoopoe birds near Morgan’s Bay in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. He noted that the stress levels in birds before and after their massages changed dramati
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A study by researchers at Wildlife Conservation Society’s Afghanistan Program found that Marco Polo sheep in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan are genetically related to the sheep in Tajikistan and China. This means that the big-horned animals frequentl
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Recently, a graduate student and his colleagues at Tohoku University in Japan conducted an interesting experiment. They fed more than 100 snails to captive birds to see whether or not the snails could survive being eaten.
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Despite popular belief that all dinosaurs were slow and cold-blooded, researchers have found that at least some were active and warm-blooded. Researcher Roger Seymour of the University of Adelaide in South Australia and his colleagues began measuring the
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Your tongue helps you speak. It also helps you swallow and chew your food. Imagine that you are eating an apple. How would you be able to move the pieces of the apple around in your mouth if it wasn’t for your tongue? How would you be able to push the fo
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Crows have always had a bad reputation. In movies and pictures, the black birds have always been linked to spooky, frightening scenes. If you see one that you think might be looking right at you, it’s not just in your imagination. Turns out that crows ha
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When you think of singing animals, you probably think about birds or even whales. You may not have thought about it, but it turns out that mice can sing, too! Hidden in the dense forests of Latin America, male Alston mice “sing” to attract other female
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The Himalayan mountain range is home to the tallest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest. The mountain range is a formidable challenge for all those who dare to scale its walls. Yet, hundreds of climbers risk life and limb every year, trying to reach the summ
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You are probably aware of where some of the animal parts that don’t make it to our plates go, such as the leather and wool that go into our clothes or the animal fats that go into our soaps. However, you may be surprised to find out there are many more i
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