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Munching ‘Winged Sardines’ | Elephant Tree Threat | Rethinking ‘Hippy Apes’ | Black Cuckoo
Hyenas Snack on ‘Winged Sardines’ Scientists have for the first time recorded spotted hyenas snatching small quelea birds out of the air and off the…
Apr 14
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Ryan Truscott
March 2024
Flying Fox Corridors | ‘Extinct’ Trees Found | Butterfly Disguise | Treasure Box
‘Forest Corridors’ Needed to Link Flying Fox Colonies The Livingstone’s flying fox – a critically-endangered fruit bat – is in danger of becoming inbred…
Mar 31
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Ryan Truscott
White Shark Tale | Brand New Ecoregion | ‘Junk Food Fodies’ | Hiking and Hill-babblers
South Africa’s White Shark Population is ‘Contracting From the Edges’ A group of scientists has challenged the findings of a study last year that…
Mar 17
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Ryan Truscott
Fruit-eating Jackals | Serengeti ‘Pushmi-pullyu’ | Ants Disrupting Lions | Dog Diary
Jackals pee on their favourite fruits to stop others finding them Black-backed jackals, small fox-like carnivores that hunt small prey or scavenge on…
Mar 3
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Ryan Truscott
January 2024
Coral Cave Bats | Ants Protecting Birds | Threatened Raptors | A Kind of Magic
Protecting coral caves to save endangered bats Kenya’s coral caves are important roosting sites for endangered Hildegarde’s tomb bats, near-threatened…
Jan 7
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Ryan Truscott
December 2023
Golden Mole Hunt | Volcano Toad | Honeyguide Signals | River of Time
Researchers in SA use eDNA, scent-trained dog, to rediscover ‘lost’ golden mole A border collie that was trained to find iridescent golden moles in…
Dec 10, 2023
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Ryan Truscott
November 2023
Penguin Polka Dots | Bird Flu Scavengers | Nesting in Plastic | The Border Beacon
Penguin polka dots help colony-nesting birds tell each other apart Scientists have discovered that African penguins likely use the black dots on their…
Nov 26, 2023
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Ryan Truscott
Pangolin ‘Safety Tags’ | Stingless Bee Bounty | Super Hawk Vision | Pitta Country
Leopards grab rescued pangolins by the tags Scientists keeping an eye on pangolins rescued from traffickers in Zimbabwe and released into national parks…
Nov 12, 2023
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Ryan Truscott
October 2023
Lemur-Tracking Beetles | Ancient Egyptian Snakes | Long-Lost Flower | Dormice Diaries
How dung beetles can help track endangered lemurs Analysing the DNA in the gut of dung beetles could provide a simple and accessible way to monitor…
Oct 29, 2023
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Ryan Truscott
Pickled Snake | Vulture Sleuths | Rare Plant Hotspots | Alarm Clock Bird
Pickled snake kept for 40 years is a new species that might be extinct Scientists have for the first time identified the DNA of a hooded, venom-spitting…
Oct 8, 2023
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Ryan Truscott
September 2023
Spotless Giraffe | Of Mice & Elephants | Cancer-fighting Sponge | Dwarf Trees
Africa’s First Spotless Giraffe Discovered in Namibia For the first time, a spotless, entirely-brown baby giraffe has been recorded in the wild in…
Sep 17, 2023
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Ryan Truscott
August 2023
Poisoned Reunion Harriers | Mountains Worth Billions | A Zimbabwean Phoenix
Rat poison threatens endangered Reunion harriers New research out of Reunion shows that endangered and endemic Reunion harriers are dying or becoming…
Aug 20, 2023
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Ryan Truscott
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