2nd year Zoologist Lisa Jones says “Read this and thought of SEEN 🙂 Quite an interesting (but depressing!) article about tigers and their susceptibility to a canine virus.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24535799 (thank you Lisa!)
Our first staff contributor, Jake Snaddon, thought this BBC story about the long term effects of an elephant cull http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24754682 (thank you Jake!)
http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2013/11/mass-killings-can-haunt-elephants-decades – more here
!!!!!!!!Staff contributor of the week!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As promised, 3 stories from Rob Holland (Thank you Rob! Can he be beaten?!):
Secrets to the Biggest Frog Jumps Ever Revealed
Research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology shows that our understanding of how far frogs can jump may be wrong as scientists were not motivating the frogs properly. Puzzled by a discrepancy in the longest recorded jump by bullfrogs in the lap compared to the Guinness World of Records entry scientists visited a frog jumping contest in California and explored the many secrets that make up a great leap.
http://news.yahoo.com/secrets-biggest-frog-jumps-ever-revealed-224158360.html
First Venomous Crustacean Known To Science Confirmed
Scientists this month confirmed the discovery of the first known venomous crustacean, a centipede like creature found in marine cave systems in the Caribbean.
Mysterious hum keeping people up all night ‘could be mating fish’
A council investigation was launched in Hythe, Southampton after some people had to move away because of the drone ‘pulsating’ through their homes
The secrets of dog tail-wagging
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24746107 – review
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982213011433 – original article
http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2013/10/video-what-tail-wagging-means-other-dogs – more here
The truth about false widow spiders http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24636116
Tyrannosaurus rex has been popular on Nature News this week – suggestions that individuals got larger as they got older http://www.nature.com/news/t-rex-grew-beefier-than-museum-fossils-suggest-1.14086
Also, this article http://www.nature.com/news/palaeontology-the-truth-about-t-rex-1.13988
Cute animals aren’t always nice http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things/2013/10/28/sea_otter_dolphin_and_penguin_behavior_your_favorite_animals_are_jerks.html
Autumn leaves – http://www.scilogs.com/six_incredible_things_before_breakfast/what-autumn-leaves/?utm_source=feedly
Posted By : Judith Lock