Many research groups use penguins, one of the top predators in the Southern Oceans, as ecological indicators. For ease of identification and data collection, researchers often attach flipper-bands on ...

There are currently 18 to 19 families of snakes with approximately 2,950 different species. With so many snakes, both on land and in the sea, there is a wide variety of colors and sizes. In the ...

The effects of climate forcing on primary and secondary production of the short austral food webs may be integrated at higher levels 14,15, and thus amplified in top-level predators such as seabirds.

Andy T.D. Bennett receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Raoul Ribot does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...

Western banded geckos don’t look like they’d win in a fight. Yet this unassuming predator dines on venomous scorpions, and a field study published in the March Biological Journal of the Linnean ...

Animals are more eloquent than previously assumed. Even the monosyllabic call of the banded mongoose is structured and thus comparable with the vowel and consonant system of human speech. Behavioral ...

Tanna Meals and her husband, Drew, have been hunting together since day one of their relationship. She says that instead of counting their anniversaries by calendar years, they count in deer seasons, ...

Malayan banded pitta, Pitta irena (synonyms, Hydrornis irena, Pitta guajana irena and Pitta guajana ripleyi; protonym, Turdus Guajanus), Temminck, 1836, also known as the blue-tailed pitta, as Irene's ...