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A Study Of 70,000 Birds From 52 North American Migratory Bird Specimen Is Indicating That The Body Size Of Birds Shrank By ~2.6% While Their Wingspan Length Grew ~1.3% During A 38-Year Period (1978 to 2016), As A Result Of Global Warming. Scientists Are Of The Opinion That These Changes May Be Adaptive To Maintain The Birds’ Lifestyle.

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Every 5 Years, In December, The Largest Animal Sacrifice Is Carried Out In Nepal, During Gadhimai Festival, To Appease Goddess Gadhimai. The Animals Decapitated With Blunt Metal Swords Range From Buffalos, Goats, Chickens, Pigs, Rats, And Pigeons. The Number Of Animals Killed, In 2014, Is ~30,000 Due To Efforts Of Animal Rights Groups.

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Most Of Us Know That Crows Are Smart And Can Hold Grudges. And Now, According To A Recent Study, Crows, Like The New Caledonian Crows, Can Delay Gratification As Well As 3 to 5-Year-Old Kids. And The Degree To Which They Would Delay Gratification Depend On The Quality And Visibility Of Future Rewards.

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Pretty Mysterious Creature, Called “The Blob,” Which Appears To Be A Fungi But Behaves Like An Animal. The Blob Is Said To Have About 720 Sexes, And With Some Degree Of Intelligence For Resolving Problems. The Salt Hating Creature Is Also Said To Be Able To Transmit Knowledge With One Another When Fused Together.

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The Right Whale, An Endangered Species With Only 500 Known Species Left, Is Said To Make Sounds That Could Be Heard A Km Away. But The Pairs Of Calves And Mother Reduce This Long Distance Sounds To A Whisper (Audible Within 100m Range) To Avoid Eavesdropping By Predators, E.G, Orcas, Which Are Known To Attack The Calves.

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Many Elephants Are Held In Captivity For Research, Conservation, And Tourism. But, According To A Recent Study, Asian Elephants Held In Captivity Are Hindered In Reproduction For Over A Decade. And Calves, From Captured Females, Have Lower Survival Rates. ~16,000 Asian Elephants Are Held In Captivity In Countries Like Myanmar And India.

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California Is At The Forefront Of Major Changes Including Those That Relate To Animal Rights. It Became The First US State To Ban The Sale And Manufacture Of Animal Furs. The Ban Exempts Leather, Cow Hides And The Full Skin Of Deer, Sheep, And Goats. A Bill Has Also Been Signed To Ban Most Animals From Circus Use.

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The Previous Studies That Indicated That Flies Are Less Likely To Land On Black And White Surfaces Seem To Be True As Japanese Researchers Have Discovered Via Their Cow Experiment. The Researchers Found That Painting Cows With Zebra-Like Stripes Can Reduce, By Nearly 50%, The Number Of Biting Flies That Attack Cows.

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A New Nematode Species Was Discovered In Mono Lake, CA, Where High PH (10), Salt Conc. And Arsenic Levels, Which Can Kill A Person 500X Over, Exist. The Nematode, Auanema Sp., Has 3 Sexes And Carries Its Offspring Like A Kangaroo. And It Could Teach Humans To Better Adapt To Stress And Arsenic-Contaminated Drinking Water.

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Birds Are Disappearing From North America, And It Is Not Because They Are Migrating Elsewhere. A Recent Report Is Indicating That The Bird Population In The US And Canada Has Declined By 3 billion, Or 29% In The Last 50 Years. And This Is Due To Many Factors, Including Important Ones Like Habitat Loss And Wider Use Of Pesticides.

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A New Species Of Salamander, Said To Be The Biggest Amphibian In The World, May Have Been Discovered. The Discovery Was Made From A Salamander, Known As China Giant Salamander, Which Lived In London Zoo For 20 Years Before Being Preserved, For 74 Years, At The Natural History Museum. The Species Is Presumed To Still Live In The Wild.

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It Would Have Been Weird To Find 15 Dead Cows And 8 Calves In A Straight Line Along A Wire Fence If The Discovery Was Not Made A Few Days After A Lighting Storm. The Lighting, Via The Fence Wire, Probably Shocked The Animals To Death. The Incident Happened In Northeast Texas, On A Farm, Just Outside Of Annona.

A Fisherman Caught An Extremely Rare Lobster Off The Coast Of Maine, USA. The Odds Of Finding This Rare Two-Toned Lobster, With A Red And Brown Split-Color, Are 1 In 50 Million. While The Odds Of Finding An Albino Lobster Are 1 In 100 Million. The Two-Toned Lobster Is On Display At Discovery Wharf In Stonington, Maine. Cool!

The Strongest Known Living Electricity Source, Of The Three Species Of Electric Eels: Electrophorus voltai, Electrophorus electricus, And Electrophorus varii Is Electrophorus voltai, Which Scientists Say Can Generate 860 Volts of Electricity. Electric Eels Inspired Physicist Alessandro Volta First Battery Design In 1799.

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A DNA Scientists, Dr. Neil Gemmel, Based On The DNA Analysis From Loch Ness, Scotland, Is Speculating That The Loch Ness Monster Could Be A Giant Eel, As There Are A Lot Of Eel DNA From The Samples Collected. However, 20% Of DNA Are Still Unencoded, Which Could Leave Room For The Existence Of A Loch Ness Monster. And So, The Mystery Continues.

Researchers At The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Have Discovered A New Type Of Bloodsucking Leech, Since 1975 In North America, Dubbed “Macrobdella Mimicus,” In Charles County, 50 Miles Outside Washington, D.C. The Olive-Green Leech Is Said To Have Three Jaws With 56 to 59 Teeth In Each. Like Leech Is Not Gross Enough!

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The Importance Of Bees Cannot Be Overemphasized. And So, It Is Really Alarming To Hear That 500 Million Bees Dropped Dead In Brazil Within 3 Months. And This Is All Thanks To Pesticides With Neonicotinoids and Fipronil–Products That Are Banned In Europe. Global Food Security Definitely Hangs In The Balance With News Like This.

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It Is Common Knowledge That Bats Use Echolocation, The Application Of Sound And Echoes, To Locate Their Prey In The Dark. But How Do Bats Find Preys That Remain Silent And Motionless To Avoid Being Detected? The Bats, According To A New Study, Use Leaves As A Sound Reflective Mirror To Locate These Motionless Preys.

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Embryonic Communication, Like In Amphibians And Reptiles, Isn’t New, But It’s Fascinating To Know That Well Developed Unhatched Chicks Can Sense Danger While Still In The Egg, And Communicate The Danger Signal With Each Other By Vibrating Their Shells. But How These Embryos Produce And Understand The Signal Still Puzzles Researchers.

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A New Species Of Shark Has Been Discovered In The Gulf Of Mexico. The 5.5 Inch Species, Known As The Pocket Shark, Is Said To Secrete Bioluminescent Fluid That It Uses To Attract Prey. This Is Only The Second Shark Species Ever Captured/Recorded In The World. The First Was Found In 1979 In the Pacific Ocean Off Peru.