Antarctic icebergs -- Hotspots of ocean life
...bison of MBARI, an oceanographer and ROV pilot. We flew the ROV into underwater caves and to the undersides of the icebergs, identifying and counting animals with its color video camera, collecting samples, and surveying its topography. Based on their new understanding of the impacts of the icebergs and...No need to thank dinosaur-killing asteroid for mammalian success
...mals we know today are actually quite old and just flew under the radar of everything that was out there, be they dinosaurs or now other archaic mammals as well, for a lot longer than most people suspected," said Olaf Bininda-Emonds, lead author of the study and now on a Heisenberg Scholarship at the Univ...Eavesdropping nuthatches distinguish danger threats in chickadee alarm calls
...d strong mobbing behavior more of them responded, flew closer to the speaker and appeared to be more agitated by flicking their wings when they heard the small predator alarm than when they heard the large owl alarm. "It turns out that these animals are pretty smart," said Templeton. "Knowing what kind...Microsurgery and Super Glue show how antennae aid moth navigation
... a dimly lit glass chamber. The antenna-less moths flew backwards, collided with walls or crashed to the floor much more often than those with antennae. He then used Super Glue to reattach the flagella and observed as the insects' normal flight abilities were restored. He removed the flagella again and fl...Firewood unintentionally transports emerald ash borer
... arriving, adult beetles emerged from the wood and flew to local ash trees infesting them." Although Appleby says that woodpeckers are natural predators, they feed on larger larvae but by that time the larger larvae have already done extensive damage. From studies in the state of Michigan it is know...NYC tadpoles fly to Puerto Rico
...mportant part of preserving that beauty." Foster flew down to Puerto Rico with his precious cargo and made the rendezvous with other participants at the release site: a manmade pond in Guanica State Forest. Combined with contributions from the Fort Worth Zoo, the Buffalo Zoo, and the Sedgwick County Zoo...Group decisions: From compromise to leadership in pigeon homing
...esolved by a mutual compromise in which both birds flew by an intermediate route. When preferred routes of the two birds differed greatly, however, the compromise position was replaced by a scenario in which the preferred route of one bird--who would emerge as the "leader"--was followed by both birds for ...Widespread elephant slaughter discovered in Chad
...s and five men, who quickly packed up as the plane flew over. "Zakouma elephants are getting massacred ri...lt rifle in the poacher's hands. The third time we flew over, this time only about 150 feet above the camp, I could see the man shooting at us." No one was ...NASA assists search for woodpecker thought to be extinct
...logists and others. In June a research aircraft flew over delta regions of the lower Mississippi River to track possible areas of habitat suitable for the ivory-billed woodpecker, one of the largest and most regal members of the woodpecker family. The project is supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...Scientists describe new African monkey genus first in 83 years
...en Kipunji and other mangabeys." Meanwhile, Sargis flew to Chicago with only a week's notice to work with Stanley on the skull of the only specimen of Kipunji. They used the Field Museum's extensive primate collection to compare Kipunji with other primates and found that the skull and external features o...New possibilities to fight pests with biological means
... in the central cylinder of the olfactometer, they flew towards the scent-producing plants. The experiments led to an additional, surprising result: in order to react this way, the wasps needed a first exposure to both the corn scent and the caterpillar which led them to associate the two. Young, "naive" ...Ancient trans-Atlantic swarm brought locusts to the New World
...ops. DNA shows that ancestors of the desert locust flew across the Atlantic and gave rise to a diverse group of New World species. "If we were standing on the coast of Africa, we might have these swarms of locusts heading off across the Atlantic," says Nathan Lovejoy, an assistant professor of in the Depa...Tulane receives millions for international health and tropical medicine research
...n Katrina hit. Within a week of the storm, Kendall flew to Atlanta to reassure CDC of Tulane's ability to continue project activities. There, with the active support of ORC-MACRO (an opinion research corporation) and CDC, he established a satellite office with two staff: Roxane Johnson and Dawne Walker. D...Researchers find a potential key to human immune suppression in space
...of landing back on Earth." In 1991, Hughes-Fulford flew on STS-40, the first United States space shuttle mission dedicated to medical research. During that mission, she participated in experiments that identified T-cells as the particular components of immune function that were compromised. Her current st...Locusts' built-in 'surface analysis' ability directs them to fly overland
...hashar. This is a survival instinct, since if they flew over a body of water, the locusts would be deprived of both nourishment and a place to land and rest. This research, said Dr. Shashar, could be important in providing information that would be useful in developing means for "deceiving" the locusts a...Soil fertility in the tropics can be influenced by landscape and precipitation, study finds
...tent of leaves in a forest canopy. The researchers flew over the study area in an aircraft specially equipped with an infrared spectrometer that detected the chemical concentrations in ohia leaves. The results of the flyover confirmed what the scientists had predicted--namely, that only about 17 percent o...Chickadees' alarm calls carry information about size, threat of predators
...irds would have such a brief glimpse as a predator flew by....Ultra-fast camera captures how hummingbirds hover
...d bird-lovers alike to postulate that hummingbirds flew like insects of similar size. "Fascinating!" he said of the findings....Waggle dance controversy resolved by radar records of bee flight paths
... had attended a "waggle dance" and found that they flew straight to the vicinity of the feeding site, as p... that recruits simply followed the dancer when she flew back to the food, and then other bees joined in. The controversy has persisted because prior to the ...Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas
... paddled ahead, a large black-and-white woodpecker flew across the bayou less than 70 feet in front of Gal...an ivory-billed woodpecker, being mobbed by crows, flew into view. In addition, autonomous recording units detected sounds, among thousands of hours of rec...