Tag: humans

Humans have probably wiped out Cyprus’ small hippos and elephants in record time

Thousands of years before a small pygmy hippopotamus from a zoo in Thailand named Moo…

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Thanks to humans, the waters of the Salish Sea are too noisy for orcas to hunt successfully

The Salish Sea – the inland coastal waters of Washington and British Columbia – is…

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Like humans, vultures become set in their ways and have fewer friends as they get older

If you prefer watching TV on the couch to dancing at the club, you may…

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The overlap between humans and nature is expected to increase on more than half of the world’s land by 2070

As the human population grows, more than half of the Earth's surface will experience increasing…

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Mosquitoes sense infrared radiation from body heat to help detect humans

Although a mosquito bite is often nothing more than a temporary nuisance, it can be…

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How ‘winner and loser effects’ influence the social ranking of animals and humans

Research has shown that in many animals, the winners of a fight are more likely…

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Miscarriages in horses provide clues to the causes of early pregnancy loss in humans

A study in horses – which share many important similarities with humans in their chromosomes…

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Major boost for new epigenetic paradigm: CoRSIVs, first discovered in humans, now found in cattle

A study published in Genome Biology opens up new opportunities to improve production efficiency in…

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Analyzing internal world models of humans, animals and AI

A team of scientists led by Prof. Dr. Ilka Diester, professor of optophysiology and spokesperson…

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What fat cats on diets can tell us about obesity in humans

Domestic cats could be excellent animal models for studying the origins and treatment of obesity…

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