A video showing a herd of Indian elephants carrying and mourning a dead calf has resurfaced attention on something researchers have documented for years: elephants appear to grieve their dead in ways that look remarkably close to human mourning rituals. A Funeral Caught On Camera The footage was filmed and shared on Twitter in June 2019 by Parveen Kaswan, an officer with … [Read more...] about Weeping Elephants Mourn A Lost Baby In A Funeral March That Looks Startlingly Human
Wildlife & Nature
Macro Photography: Capturing the Marvels of Tiny Worlds
Macro photography unveils a world that often goes unnoticed — the intricate details of life at a miniature scale. A single droplet of water clinging to a leaf, the compound eyes of a housefly, the texture of a butterfly's wing: macro photography turns these overlooked details into the main subject. Picture an ant delicately sipping from a droplet of water, perfectly … [Read more...] about Macro Photography: Capturing the Marvels of Tiny Worlds
Trinidad’s Smallest Bird Needed a Rescue — Here’s How Asa Wright Nature Centre Revived an Exhausted Hummingbird
Visitors to the Asa Wright Nature Centre in Trinidad's Arima Valley are used to seeing hummingbirds darting between flowers on the estate's famous verandah. But one recent visitor needed a very different kind of encounter — a tiny Tufted Coquette so exhausted it could barely stay upright, until staff at the centre stepped in to help it recover. Photographer Linda Mason … [Read more...] about Trinidad’s Smallest Bird Needed a Rescue — Here’s How Asa Wright Nature Centre Revived an Exhausted Hummingbird
Ancient Protectors: The Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab and its Vital Role in Modern Medicine
Imagine a creature that predates the dinosaurs by hundreds of millions of years, yet plays a critical role in safeguarding human health today. Meet the horseshoe crab — a "living fossil" whose blood has quietly underpinned modern medicine for the past 50 years. An Ancient Body With an Unusual Blood Type These helmet-shaped arthropods, with their spiky tails and five pairs … [Read more...] about Ancient Protectors: The Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab and its Vital Role in Modern Medicine
Why Frogs Never Need to Take a Sip — Their Skin Does It All
Set a bowl of water in front of a frog on a hot day, and it won't do what you might expect. Instead of lapping it up, the frog is more likely to simply sit down in it — and within moments, its body will pull in all the moisture it needs without a single swallow. That's exactly what one Reddit user, going by FootLoosePickleJuice, captured on video: a pet frog settling into a … [Read more...] about Why Frogs Never Need to Take a Sip — Their Skin Does It All