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Here's why different four-legged animals adopt similar gaits
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 24 (ANI): As movement strategies are energetically optimal in most mammals they tend to walk at slow speeds and run at intermediate speed, reveals a recent study.
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Melting Arctic sea ice linked to emergence of deadly virus: Study
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA] Nov 9 (ANI): Decline of ice in the Arctic sea can lead to the emergence of a deadly virus that could threaten marine mammals in the North Pacific, says a recent study.
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Here's how artificial sweeteners increase appetite
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 30 (ANI): Researchers have revealed, for the first time, how artificial sweeteners can stimulate appetite.
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Here's how mammals' brains distinguish odours
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 20 (ANI): Researchers found that approximately six types of mammals from mice to cats distinguish odours in almost the same way by using circuitry in the brain.
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Fathers play an important role in brain development: Study
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Jun 3 (ANI): The bigger the brain in relation to body size, the more intelligent a living organism is. However, mothers of many mammals cannot bear the energetic costs of developing a large brain on their own, they are reliant on additional help from fathers.
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Mammals' brain size, fertility may depend on who cares for offspring
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 30 (ANI): In mammals, the evolution of larger brain size in offsprings is linked to paternal care whereas higher fertility in females is associated with the extra care they get from individuals other than their biological parents (alloparents), a study has claimed.
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Researchers forecast worldwide move towards smaller birds, mammals
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [USA], May 25 (ANI): In the future, small, fast-lived, highly-fertile, insect-eating animals which can thrive in a wide variety of habitats will predominate, a recent study suggests.
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Bedbugs evolved around 50 milion years ago, study reveals
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 19 (ANI): It turns out bedbugs are older than bats - a mammal that people had previously believed to be their first host 50-60 million years ago. Bedbugs in fact evolved around 50 million years earlier, a recent study suggests.
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West Bengal: Forest officials arrest 5 people for smuggling Pangolin
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) [India], May 7 (ANI): Five people hailing from Sikkim were arrested by forest officials for smuggling a Pangolin (mammal) to Bhutan on Tuesday.
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3-year-old leopard stuck in 'jaw trap' rescued in Maharashtra
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) [India], Mar 9 (ANI): A 3-year old male leopard was found trapped in a jaw trap set up by poachers in Jeur Haibati village here. The mammal was later rescued by Wildlife SOS and the Forest Department.
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Australian rat becomes first mammal to go extinct due to climate change
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], Feb 20 (ANI): According to the Australian government, a small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world’s first mammal known to have become extinct due to “human-induced climate change.”
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Tree shrews violate mammal rules!
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 16 (ANI): Tree shrews, a species closely related to primates, seems to violate the mammal rules as they tolerate spices unlike other members of their species.
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