Tag: wildlife

How to build a motion-detector wildlife camera with an old smartphone

Make a motion-controlled wildlife camera with an old smartphone and find out what birds, bees, butterflies and badgers are visiting your garden Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332410-700-how-to-build-a-motion-detector-wildlife-camera-with-an-old-smartphone/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Many Animals Can’t Adapt Fast Enough To Climate Change

A new paper in Nature Communications, coauthored by more than 60 researchers, sifted through 10,000 previous studies and found that the climatic chaos we’ve sowed may just be too intense for many animals to survive. From a report: Some species seem to be adapting, yes, but they aren’t doing so fast enough. That spells, in a word, doom. To determine how…

Corals spreading to subtropical waters

While coral populations are declining in tropical waters, scientists have just detected an increase in subtropical areas, which could be good news for corals. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/corals-spreading-to-subtropical-waters…

Do Elephants Belong In Zoos? Extinction Policy Under Scrutiny

Long-time Slashdot reader retroworks writes: In “Zoos Called It a ‘Rescue.’ But Are the Elephants Really Better Off?” New York Times reporter Charles Siebert does much to dispel the idea that zoos are a solution to extinction. In the first half of the article, the cruelty of zoos is in focus. “Neuroimaging has shown that elephants possess in their cerebral cortex…

Beavers engineer their ecosystems in a way that helps moose and otters

A wildlife survey in Finland has found that by felling trees and building dams, beavers increase the diversity and abundance of woodland mammals Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2208573-beavers-engineer-their-ecosystems-in-a-way-that-helps-moose-and-otters/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…