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For the first time, scientists have linked a global climate pattern to a specific mechanism of amphibian decline. (p. 271)Published: April 28th, 2001; Vol.159 #17Found in: Biology
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Older female elephants are far better at telling friends from strangers than are younger matriarchs. (p. 244)Published: April 21st, 2001; Vol.159 #16Found in: Biology
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The first study of home life for Madagascar's poison frogs in the wild finds a striking resemblance to a group that's not closely related, the poison-dart frogs in the Americas. (p. 230)Published: April 14th, 2001; Vol.159 #15Found in: Biology -
A new analysis of tapeworm history suggests that people have been wrong about where we picked up pests: It was not domestication of cattle and pigs but increased meat eating in Africa. (p. 215)Published: April 7th, 2001; Vol.159 #14Found in: Biology -
People don't see ultraviolet light but birds do, so studies of egg mimickry may need to stop relying so much on human vision. (p. 216)Published: April 7th, 2001; Vol.159 #14Found in: Biology
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In a newly discovered trick for avoiding self-pollination, ginger flowers take turns at gender roles, switching from female to male or vice versa in unison around lunchtime. (p. 216)Published: April 7th, 2001; Vol.159 #14Found in: Biology -
Researchers have discovered that sensing repeated touch on the hind leg triggers a shy, green locust to flip into swarming mode. (p. 199)Published: March 31st, 2001; Vol.159 #13Found in: Biology
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It's time to stop assuming that standard gender differences in birds come from males getting bigger rather than from females getting smaller. (p. 183)Published: March 24th, 2001; Vol.159 #12Found in: Biology -
The chemical screams for help that scientists have detected from agricultural plants under attack by pests in lab settings have now been heard in the wild. (p. 166)Published: March 17th, 2001; Vol.159 #11Found in: Biology -
Orchids that can smell so alluring that bees try to mate with them can also smell repulsive to the insects. (p. 174)Published: March 17th, 2001; Vol.159 #11Found in: Biology -
Even after 70 generations in captivity, caged American mink still seem to miss the swimming they would do in the wild. (p. 174)Published: March 17th, 2001; Vol.159 #11Found in: Biology
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The size of the swellings on a female baboons rump match her physical prowess for motherhood, a rare case of reproductive-quality advertisement in females. (p. 151)Published: March 10th, 2001; Vol.159 #10Found in: Biology
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Males of a ferretlike marsupial called a quoll die off after one mating season-unusual behavior that suggests the need for new theories of why such deaths occur after mating. (p. 143)Published: March 3rd, 2001; Vol.159 #9Found in: Biology
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An Australian expedition locates three females of a big, flightless stick insect species thought to have gone extinct. (p. 143)Published: March 3rd, 2001; Vol.159 #9Found in: Biology -
Male Tanzanian cockroaches lose fights if they have too much of a particular pheromone, but females find it alluring. (p. 135)Published: March 3rd, 2001; Vol.159 #9Found in: Biology
