Zoology

Tobacco Hawkmoths Benefit from Learning to Select a Nectar Source and Oviposition Site More Efficiently

Tobacco Hawkmoths Benefit from Learning to Select a Nectar Source and Oviposition Site More Efficiently

Scientists from the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, directed by Bill Hansson and Markus Knaden, had previously demonstrated that tobacco hawkmoths can learn scents as signals…
When Birds Migrate than their Gut Bacteria Changes, According to Bird Feces

When Birds Migrate than their Gut Bacteria Changes, According to Bird Feces

Our gut bacteria, which number in the billions, play an important part in our capacity to digest food and fight disease. Microbiomes are populations of…
Pollinators Play a Critical Role in Ensuring the Security of Food Produced

Pollinators Play a Critical Role in Ensuring the Security of Food Produced

Pollinator decrease affects the reproductive success of 90% of all wild plants worldwide, as well as the productivity of 85% of the world’s most important…
As the Climate Changes, Coral Reef Biodiversity is Expected to Shuffle Rather Than Collapse

As the Climate Changes, Coral Reef Biodiversity is Expected to Shuffle Rather Than Collapse

Biodiversity refers to the number of different living species that may be found in a given area. Coral reef ecosystems are among the world’s most…
Jumping Spiders Utilize the same Signals as Humans and Other Vertebrate Creatures to Discriminate Between Live and Non-Living Things in Their Peripheral Vision

Jumping Spiders Utilize the same Signals as Humans and Other Vertebrate Creatures to Discriminate Between Live and Non-Living Things in Their Peripheral Vision

According to a study published on 15th July 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Massimo De Agrò of Harvard University in the United States,…
When Compared to Other Ecosystems, Researchers Discovered that Mangroves had Some of the Lowest Functional Redundancy Among Resident Fauna

When Compared to Other Ecosystems, Researchers Discovered that Mangroves had Some of the Lowest Functional Redundancy Among Resident Fauna

Researchers gathered data on 209 crustaceans and 155 mollusc species from 16 different mangrove ecosystems across the world. They discovered that, when compared to other…
Diving Bell Spider

Diving Bell Spider

The diving bell spider or water spider (Argyroneta aquatica), a species of spider known as a flexible diving bell, is known for its underwater silk…
Pitcher Plant

Pitcher Plant

Pitcher plant, any pitcher-shaped leaves of carnivorous plants that form a passive pitfall trap. Specialized leaves form the traps of what are known to be…
Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare

Animal welfare means how an animal is coping with the conditions in which it lives. It is the well-being of non-human animals. Formal standards of…
Plankton

Plankton

For all such species, including some algae, bacteria, protozoans, crustaceans, molluscs, and coelenterates, as well as members of almost every other animal phylum, the term…
Mangrove

Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that belongs primarily to the Rhizophoraceae, Acanthaceae, Lythraceae, Combretaceae, and Arecaceae families; that grows along coastal estuaries,…
Marine Iguana

Marine Iguana

Also known as the sea iguana, saltwater iguana, or Galápagos marine iguana, the marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) is the only lizard on earth that spends…
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