Blog Profile / New Scientist - Zoologger
| URL : | http://www.newscientist.com/topic/zoologger | |
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| Filed Under: | Biology / Zoology | |
| Posts on Regator: | 94 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.9 | |
| Archived Since: | June 20, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Zoologger: Bees create nest-quakes to warn of danger
Faced with a dangerous predator, Asian giant honeybees perform a Mexican wave – and their entire nest shakes as a result
Zoologger: The lyrebird that's a song-and-dance man
Male superb lyrebirds are famous for their vocal mimicry, but they also match their songs to carefully chosen dance steps
Zoologger: The sea cow with super-sensing hairs
Despite their huge size, Florida manatees are hypersensitive creatures, navigating with the help of hairs that can sense water currents at the nanoscale
Zoologger: The tiny insect with the massive sperm
A Malaysian ground louse has a unique mating habit that may illuminate how sex evolved: the males attach an unusual packet of sperm to the females' bodies
Zoologger: The hibernating lemur that feeds on its tail
Dwarf lemurs are the only primates that hibernate, and the fat-tailed dwarf lemur is the oddest of the lot
Zoologger: The moth with the highest-pitched hearing
The greater wax moth can hear ultrasonic noises that no known animal can pick up
Zoologger: The hibernating lemur that feeds on its tail
Dwarf lemurs are the only tropical mammals that hibernate, and the fat-tailed dwarf lemur is the oddest of the lot
Zoologger: The rat with two faces
The African ice rat is both friend and foe to its companions – cooperative when underground in a burrow, but nasty once they go outside
Zoologger: Picture-winged fly quenches thirst on sperm
After mating, female Euxesta bilimeki flies often eject the sperm and eat it – a habit that seems to help them stave off thirst in the dry season
Zoologger: The changing face of the lion
Hunting behaviour and sexual practice of the king of the jungle varies greatly depending on where you are in Africa
Zoologger: The fish with a chemical invisibility cloak
Pirate perch hide behind a unique chemical camouflage that makes all other animals unable to smell them
Zoologger: World's biggest mouth has an erectile secret
There is a surprise lurking on the roof of the cavernous mouth of the bowhead whale
Zoologger: The only virus with an immune system
The ICP1 virus has stolen the immune system from the bacterium it targets, and is now using the weapon against its host
Zoologger: The chilly secret to monarch migration
The northward migration of monarch butterflies is triggered by a spell in cool conditions – so the vast migration could get smaller if climate warms
Zoologger: 'It's a boy!' Monkey midwife delivers baby
In a rare sighting, a black snub-nosed monkey has been seen helping another monkey give birth in south-west China
Zoologger: How to eat without a digestive system
The giant California sea cucumber sometimes ejects its guts, but it has a backup system that is seemingly backwards
Zoologger: Supercool squirrels go into the deep freeze
Hibernating Arctic ground squirrels drop their body temperatures to -4 °C, and shut their circadian clocks off for the winter
Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate
The spotted salamander is the first backboned animal known to harness sunlight to make food – with the help of photosynthetic algae
Zoologger: Mouse eats scorpions and howls at the moon
Super-aggressive grasshopper mice are not put off by the deadly venom of the scorpions they feast on – in fact, nothing much seems to scare them
Zoologger: She's mine! Wasps tag virgins for future sex
Faced with intense competition from their peers, male Ooencyrtus kuvanae wasps line up a harem of partners ahead of time