Scientist examines city squirrels' lives
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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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A new study is tracking coyotes in suburbs of New York City, where reports of encounters with pets and children are on the rise.
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Birder Mathew Tekulsky reveals the effectiveness of a concealed location for viewing birds, as he describes the behavior of quail and jays in his yard.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Scientists are scratching their heads over strange patterns cropping up on moss-covered logs in parks in the region.
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Molehills become key research tool as wildlife charity urges people to count them, potentially yielding a mountain of information about the secretive creatures which produce them
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Thornbugs communicate by vibrating the branches they live on. Now scientists are discovering just what the bugs are "saying."
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Thousands of wildlife sleuths are being recruited for an inquiry into the affects of climate change on wildlife.
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TWO RIVERS, Wis. - One squirrel got a fiery surprise when it apparently got curious about a chimney. The squirrel fell down a chimney at a Two Rivers home and landed in a fire in a fireplace Monday night, said Two Rivers Assistant Fire Chief Gary Shavlik.
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The sensitivity of a homing pigeon&#39;s beak could provide an answer to the complicated story of how it finds its way home. Scientists have shown for the first time that homing
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By Rob Pavey  The politicians have spoken. Now it's the scientists' turn.  One of the state Environmental Protection Division's top hazardous waste officials will tour Hyde Park today in hopes of learning more about the neighborhood.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The buzzing. The biting. You&#39;d think there were already enough insects in the world to drive you buggy. However, a team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax announced Tuesday that
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - State wildlife officials are concerned that a large, rat-like rodent called nutria may soon be showing up in the Savannah and Pee Dee river basins.  The furry bucktoothed rodent looks like a mix between a beaver and a rat and weighs up to 20 pounds.
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For the past 30 years scientists have scoured the most inhospitable environments or life. Just about everywhere they look, they find it thriving in microscopic form.
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Birds living in cities are performing a form of "avian rap" to counter urban noise, a study suggests.
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Species in the air and on the ground are in deep trouble, according to two recent studies tallying steep declines in bird and amphibian populations. Scientists are speculating about the causes.
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Bloody end to Bavarian sciurine rampage A battling German septuagenarian brought to a swift and bloody end a crazed squirrel rampage in Passau, Bavaria, by knocking the animal to the ground with his zimmer frame and squashing it, Ananova reports.â¦
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Science & environment: Researchers in Switzerland manage to simulate part of a rat's brain in silicon