animals
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Hold Those Bilbies Tight, the CSIRO Warns Invasive Pests Could Destroy Our Flora and Fauna by 2050
The CSIRO has warned that invasive species could cause irreparable damage to Australia’s flora and fauna by 2050 if nothing is done.
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These Amazonian Birds Are Shrinking Because of Climate Change
Four decades of data about bird species in remote parts of the Amazon rainforest indicate the animals’ body sizes and wing lengths have changed. These changes — decreases in total body mass and increases in wingspan — correspond with a 40-year trend of increasingly hot and dry conditions during the rainforest’s drier season.
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Bat Sneaks Into New Zealand Bird of the Year Competition, Our Hearts
New Zealanders are up in arms over a bat’s inclusion in this year’s Bird of the Year competition, a contest that ostensibly exists to crown a bird. Alas, it seems a bat has stolen the hearts of locals this time around.
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Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos Are Legally People, Court Rules
Pablo Escobar’s hippos have a lawyer. And a good one at that. In a U.S. first, a court recognised the animals as legal persons. That could be the hippos’ salvation in the ongoing fight about what to do with one of the world’s most rotund and dangerous invasive species.