Elephants were found to gesture intentionally when they wanted humans to give them apples. This trait was thought to exist mainly in primates.
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Guineafowl don’t rely on cuddling for warmth like other species. They rely on flexible behavioural responses to survive harsh climates.
Many of the endangered mammal species are solitary. Understanding this way of life may help to protect them.
The skate is found in deep waters and it’s not clear how fisheries might threaten the species.
For decades, the ‘Jaws effect’ from shark movies has fed into the public’s fear and panic – harming both sharks and humans.
There is growing evidence that termites have a substantial, but still poorly understood, role in the carbon cycle.
Giraffes show remarkable genetic differences between populations.
Africa’s great wildebeest migrations are being disrupted by roads, cities and agriculture.
Water lettuce forms dense mats on the water surface. This can reduce light penetration and oxygen levels in the water, negatively affecting all aspects of aquatic life.
By reporting this new way that future antivenoms can fail, the research has highlighted a problem with current antivenom testing recommendations.
Four types of nematodes occur in soil.
In the worst-case scenario currently being mapped, Earth’s temperature could increase by 4.3°C before 2100. Southern African rhinos will have no possibility of surviving this unless parks act now.
Africa’s mammals are a global treasure that must be protected.
Madagascar stands out as an exceptionally interesting place in which to study the evolution of “mini” creatures. And we are only just starting to scratch the surface of this.
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Postdoctoral associate, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS); University of the Witwatersrand
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SEnior Lecturer Extraordinary, Department of Soil Science, Stellenbosch University
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Deputy Director of the Centre for Biological Control at Rhodes University and Biological Control and Freshwater Alien Invasive Species Management, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
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Senior Researcher and Statistician, University of Hohenheim
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Professor (Full) of Watershed Management, Water Resources, Water Quality, Ecohydrology, Complex Systems, Ecological Economics, and Sustainability., UMass Amherst
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Researcher at Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Universidad de Costa Rica
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Lecturer in Environmental Science, Adelaide University
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Research Associate at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Leiden University
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Associated Scientist, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
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Emeritus Professor, Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Universidad de Costa Rica
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Professor & Head of Section at the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark
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Full Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Eswatini
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Curator of Herpetology, Associate Professor of Vertebrate Zoology, University of Copenhagen
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Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Center for Antibody Technologies, Technical University of Denmark
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Researcher in Nematology, Parasitology, Systematics, Stellenbosch University