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Searching In features, blog entries, column entries & news items, Under the topic Zoology
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First big species audit finds coral extinction risks severely under-reportedPublished: Thursday, July 10th, 2008Found in: Ecology, Environment, Life and Zoology -
For cuttlefish embryos, what they see is what they'll crave as food laterPublished: August 2nd, 2008; Vol.174 #3Found in: Life and Zoology
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Mites that were thought to be parasites to their host wasps turn out to be bodyguards, attacking intruders.Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Found in: Biology, Ecology and Zoology -
With a lifespan of just five months, the chameleon Furcifer labordi leads a briefer life than any other land-dwelling vertebrate.Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Found in: Biology, Ecology, Environment, Life and Zoology -
The 60th meeting of the International Whaling Commission defers voting on deadlocked issuesPublished: Monday, June 30th, 2008Found in: Ecology, Environment, Life and Zoology -
Nonnative earthworms are deliberately burying ragweed seeds, enhancing the weed’s growth, researchers report.Published: July 19th, 2008; Vol.174 #2Found in: Botany, Ecology, Environment, Life and Zoology -
Scientists take a new look at what drives female damselflies to look like males.Published: July 19th, 2008; Vol.174 #2Found in: Ecology, Life and Zoology -
A new study shows that playful 2-year-old chimpanzees may be particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases — some caught from humans.Published: Friday, June 20th, 2008Found in: Behavior, Biology, Ecology and Zoology -
Female chimps tend toward silent sex when the other girls could overhear.Published: July 19th, 2008; Vol.174 #2Found in: Zoology -
Chinook salmon, dwindling in the United States, go wild in South America.Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Found in: Biology, Ecology, Life and Zoology -
Scientists have revealed new details about the genes — and the goo — that enable luminescent bacteria to colonize their symbiotic marine partner.Published: Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Found in: Ecology, Genes & Cells, Life and Zoology -
Wasp attack creates undead caterpillars that protect wasp youngPublished: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Found in: Ecology, Life and Zoology -
Unsuspected genetic diversity found in asexual animals.Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2008Found in: Life and Zoology -
Believe it or not, science has barely begun to fathom the peacock’s tail. Subtle as a pink tuxedo, one might think. Big flashy thing. Peahens love it. What’s not to understand. Roslyn Dakin, though, has plenty of questions. There’s the matter of choreography. Already this year she has left Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, to visit peacocks (the birds) in Los Angeles and New York. She has spent weeks collecting feathers and watching males fan out their finery before the ladies. “The males do all sorts of strange footwork,” she says. With their tails a wall of shi...Published: June 7th, 2008; Vol.173 #18Found in: Biology, Chemistry, Ecology, Life, Physics and Zoology -
A parasite threatens efforts to protect China's endangered icon.Published: Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Found in: Ecology, Environment, Science & Society and Zoology
