What Is Coral Bleaching, And Why Is It On The Rise?

"Coral bleaching results when corals expel their colourful endosymbionts, the photosynthetic zooxanthellae, leaving the still living, but white, coral skeleton behind."

by @GrrlScientist via Substack

Properly Feeding Your Microbiome Can Make You Healthier

"One simple thing you can do to be healthier is to feed your microbiome properly, so your microbiome can take care of you."

by @GrrlScientist via Substack

Made for Each Other: Evolution of Monogamy in Poison Frogs

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Cranial Morphology Confirms There Really Are Four Giraffe Species

"Originally assumed to comprise just one species, new research confirms 50 years of detailed studies that find giraffes are comprised of at least four cryptic species"

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Pet Flea Treatments Are Poisoning Wild Birds: Study

“High levels of harmful pesticides from pet flea treatments in birds’ nests lined with animal fur is leading to the increased mortality rate of chicks.”

by @GrrlScientist via Substack

Pearlescent Blue Damselfish Just Discovered In The Maldives

“Researchers report they have recently described a pale, ghostly blue damselfish living in the deep-sea reefs of the Maldives.”

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Birds in love produce more babies, study shows

“A study finds that birds who freely choose their own mates have 37% more offspring than those which were paired up by researchers in a sort of avian ‘arranged marriage’”

by @GrrlScientist via Substack

American crows: the ultimate angry birds?

"Crows form mobs that scold dangerous people and naïve crows exposed to mobs learn to identify a dangerous person’s face, associate it with danger, and react accordingly"

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How Do Young Birds Know When To Leave The Nest?

“The age when young birds leave their nest is the evolutionary compromise between parents, who want their chicks to leave as early as possible, and offspring, who want to leave as late as possible.”

by @GrrlScientist via Substack 

Brainier Birds Live On Islands

"Island birds’ larger brains are the result of evolutionary processes that took place on islands rather than before birds colonized them"

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What Is No Mow May And Why Is It Important?

"No Mow May is a growing cultural movement across Europe and Canada that celebrates Public Enemy Number One: the dandelion"

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Learning To Love Dandelions

“As we’ve become unmoored from nature, we’ve forgotten the importance and many uses of a variety of plants, especially the much-maligned dandelion”

by @GrrlScientist via Substack

just in time for the Triple Crown races

Whipping up a storm: Does whipping a racehorse make them run faster?

"Hypothesis: beating tired racehorses with a whip stimulates them to run faster"

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Success Of Racehorses Improves With Greater Gut Microbiome Diversity

“The future success and long-term health of a racehorse can be diagnosed by the diversity of its gut microbiome when it’s just one month old!”

by @GrrlScientist via Substack

Made For Each Other

“Gray jays hoping to survive and reproduce during Canada's harsh winters must store food in the right kinds of trees”

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The Secret Magic Of Gophers To Help Restore Devastated Landscapes

“A team of American scientists sought to learn whether a team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St Helens after her 1980 eruption.”

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The amazing world of flyingfish by Steve NG Howell - Review

Written by a professional pelagic birding tour guide and photographer, this book presents a popular account of what is known about the enigmatic flyingfishes

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