All posts tagged with animals
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-(Natural News) In November 2019, thousands of short-tailed shear water birds washed up dead on the beautiful beaches of Sydney, Australia. The locals are accustomed to seeing beautiful sea birds arrive this time of year in healthy flocks; the locals did not expect thousands of foul birds to wash up dead on the shore. Food […]
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-(Natural News) The animal kingdom has many innovative natural camouflage strategies that humans try to emulate using technology. Camouflage is a crucial part of the predator-prey relationship in the wild; certain markings on animals’ skin or fur help them blend in with their environment, which is usually mottled green and brown due to the surrounding […]
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-(Natural News) After his pet cat scratched him, a teenage boy developed a bacterial infection that caused rapid-onset schizophrenia. Experts diagnosed the patient with “cat-scratch disease.” The anonymous boy became severely suicidal and paranoid about his pets. He ended up at the hospital four times in 18 months. As his mental condition worsened, he experienced hallucinations, […]
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-(Natural News) Humans and primates might have a new challenger to their supposedly unique knack for subtle communications using facial expressions. A new U.K. study showed that sun bears were also able to copy the expressions made by other members of the same species. The smallest species of bear in the world, sun bears are also […]
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-(Natural News) If you want to live a healthy and sustainable life, try switching to a low-meat diet. Doing this could make a huge impact not only on your health but also the environment. Modern animal agriculture is destroying the earth. Most of the world’s meat, eggs, and dairy are produced in factory farms. The […]
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-(Natural News) The bottom of the ocean serves as home sweet home to bug-like crustaceans called giant isopods. Able to grow to the size of a football, these pink-colored critters chew through the tough skin and bones of dead animals that reach the seafloor. Mere hours after the carcass of an alligator or similarly sized […]
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-(Natural News) The bottom of the sea is so weird that it might as well have come from another planet. And a strange environment produces fittingly odd creatures, such as the sea spider. A marine cousin of terrestrial arachnids like spiders and scorpions, sea spiders look even more nightmarish. A recent study found that sea […]
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-(Natural News) Great news for elephants around the world: Poaching rates have been declining since 2011. But before we celebrate, conservationists point out that more work needs to be done to ensure their long-term survival. In 2011, more than 10 percent of Africa’s elephants were killed due to poaching. In 2017, that number decreased massively to […]
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-(Natural News) Humans often keep dogs as pets to protect their homes and family from intruders. Likewise, a South American species of burrowing tarantula keeps a tiny frog to protect its eggs and young spawn from small insects. In turn, the spider protects the frog from predators. Photographs taken by Italian researcher Emanuele Biggi featured an individual […]
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-(Natural News) Competition tends to bring out the best in people. Turns out, that saying applies to sperm as well. Spanish and Swedish researchers found that spermatozoa can alter themselves to compete with rival sperms from another male of the same species. In an animal model of adult zebrafish (Danio rerio), the researchers found that spermatozoa […]
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