Mandrills deal strategically with their distancing behavior: They avoid sick conspecifics, but they sometimes increase their risk of infection by continuing to care for...
Study results suggest that humans have developed a comparatively low water requirement in the course of their evolution. (Image: caracterdesign / iStock)
One of...
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Rice plants easily absorb the toxic heavy metal arsenic through their roots, which means that rice is often considered to be highly polluted. ...
Peregrine falcon equipped with satellite tracker. (Image: Andrew Dixon)
Peregrine falcons travel thousands of kilometers to get from their breeding areas to their winter...
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The Dreaded dementia apparently affects not only the brain, but also the nervous system of the digestive system, researchers report.
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Searching for endangered crested newts with the species detection dog. (Image: Daniel Peter)
The list of endangered animals and plants around the world is...
In 2020 emissions fell sharply, but that alone is not enough. (Image: DWalker44 / iStock)
Less traffic, more home office: the corona pandemic meant...
This illustration shows an eyelash animal with endosymbionts highlighted in yellow inside. (Image: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, S. Ahmerkamp)
A symbiotic partner...
Reconstruction of the hearing system in a modern human (left) and a Neanderthal man (right). (Image: Mercedes Conde-Valverde)
How did our archaic cousins communicate...