Hippos that once resided in Pablo Escobar’s private zoo are now thriving and multiplying in the wild, performing an ecological role that has been vacant for millennia. Source: https://www.livescience.com/cocaine-hippos-boost-colombian-ecosystem.html
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Tiny stature of extinct ‘Hobbit’ thanks to fast evolution
New research suggests that the tiny human species – that survived until about 18,000 years ago, later than any human species other than our own – evolved its small size remarkably quickly while living on an isolated island. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/tiny-extinct-hobbit-human-species-fast-evolution…
Eclipses make animals do strange things
How do solar and lunar eclipses influence animal behavior? While the human world gathers to see tonight’s lunar eclipse, what’s the rest of nature doing? Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/lunar-solar-eclipse-animals…