Cicadas a tasty treat for zoo animals
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At the Brookfield Zoo, cicadas are a lot more than just really noisy insects: They're delicious. These days, a host of animals from bearded dragon lizards to African wild dogs to white-crested laughing thrush birds are enjoying cicadas.
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Cockroaches have a memory and can be taught to salivate in response to neutral stimuli in the way that Pavlov's dogs would do when the famed Russian doctor rang his bell, Japanese researchers found.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 22--As of Thursday it became official: If you feed wild animals in Pima and Maricopa counties, you may pay a price.   We're not talking about the obvious price that people pay for treating bears and mountain lions with a Disneyesque innocence.
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Scientists have tested whether cellular audio is good enough to play and record animal sounds in the wild.
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A clever species of owl baits its lair with dung to attract tasty beetles, offering a remarkable case of an animal using a tool to help it survive.
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Birdman of Bel Air Michael Tekulsky shares stories about the feeding habits of scrub jays, birds that will voraciously dine on acorns, peanuts, bread, cheese&#151;even tortilla chips.
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The sudden boost trillions of cicadas dying en masse give to North American forest soils is apparent from a new study.
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By ADAM GOLDMAN  NEW YORK - When a food safety inspector walked into a market in Queens, he noticed the store had an interesting special posted on its front window: 12 beefy armadillos.
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Chickadees, cardinals and titmice are common visitors to a snowy bird feeder. But hummingbirds? That's what Janet Allen saw last year in her yard in suburban Syracuse. For several days in dreary November, a young ruby-throated hummingbird shivered on a snow-laced feeder, sipping sugar water when it should have been flitting among tropical blossoms in sunny Mexico.
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The death has prompted officials to change the habitats of some zoo animals.
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A record number of Americans own petsâand they are spending a record amount of money to feed, clothe and care for their wee beasts. But is all the attention actually good for the critters? Why we need to remember the lessons of the wild kingdom.
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Squirrels hit the genetic lottery with their chubby cheeks and bushy tails. It's hard to imagine picnickers tossing peanuts and cookies at the rodents if they looked like rats.
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Voracious carp that can literally throw themselves right into boats and pose a major ecological threat to Midwestern rivers and lakes could someday be a meal at the local zoo.
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They produce as much organic carbon as all the rainforests on Earth, but they&#39;re not plants. They live in hard shells and can survive for months in the dark, but they&#39;re not animals.
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Their decaying carcasses gave a super-size boost in nutrients to forest soil and stimulated seed and nitrogen production in a plant important to the forest ecosystem, researchers reported in Friday&#39;s issue of the journal Science.
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Wildlife managers are looking to contraception as a way to control nuisance animals.
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