End could be in sight for experimental chimps
Sometime in the near future, all 451 chimpanzees now owned or being used in labs for the National Institutes of Health may be moved to sanctuaries. It’s a big step […]
Category Archives: Animals
The everlasting eggstopper
If you ever celebrated Easter with an egg hunt, you’d expect those colorful plastic eggs to hold some kind of surprise. It could be some quarters, it could be a […]
Bad news for crustacean lovers
There’s nothing more succulent than fresh crab or lobster straight out of the shell. And if you’re a pescetarian like me, you may have comforted yourself by saying, “It’s okay […]
One rockin’ spider
It turns out California is an Eden of biodiversity for spiders. Director of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History and taxonomist Jason Bond has identified 33 new species in […]
Frightening changes for elephants’ population dynamics
In storied reserves like Kenya’s Amboseli National Park or South Africa’s Kruger National Park, elephant populations have been studied for decades. But reserves Samburu and Buffalo Springs in Kenya are just […]
Cornell puts together one impressive library
A warning to biology nerds everywhere: Prepare for all your work ethic today to evaporate. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has put together the Macaulay Library, an exhaustive collection of […]
More on the mysterious puppeteer spider
Remember this crazy decoy-building spider? Of course you do, you couldn’t forget something so awesome. Turns out that Destin, the guy behind the Smarter Every Day video series, was on […]
Blind sea lion pup gets a new home at the Shedd
Twenty-month-old Cruz can’t see, so he’ll need to rely on the staff at the Shedd Aquarium to be his eyes. The pup was just introduced at the aquarium this week […]
An au naturale breeding program
Zoologists at the San Diego Zoo and the Audubon Nature Institute will be leaving love up to the birds and the bees. The two organizations are coming together on a […]
Endangered species caught on video
Spoon-bill sandpiper is a hard animal to spot in the wild. That’s because in its native eastern Russia there are only 100 breeding pairs left. Post-breeding is an even harder […]
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