Latest postings by mohan Alembath
I was fascinated to read about rebel bees in the journal Current Biology. Scientists from Poland headed by Prof Michal Woyciechowski have di ...more>>
Nearly one quarter of mammalian species are threatened. This calls for an accurate knowledge of their distribution and conservation status. ...more>>
Something fishy smells in WWF, the conservation organization with a worldwide presence. A few days back we heard about King Juan Carlos of S ...more>>
For many years, wildlife managers and field biologists have worked at loggerheads in India. The haughtiness of the forest officials and the ...more>>
Bats, the worlds only flying mammals are one of the planet’s most misunderstood and persecuted mammals. Around half of to the world& ...more>>
A new study by a University of Michigan biologist Christopher Dick and a colleague at the University of California, Berkeley, Shalene Jha, h ...more>>
The disease chytridiomycosis, is proving to be the nemesis of Amphibians. Chytridiomycosis caused by the chytrid fungal pathogen Batrachochy ...more>>
A perusal of the paper in Conservation biology, Consevation biology: A displacement behavior for academia? by Whitten et ...more>>
The results of recent research published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B makes disturbing reading. One in four of all fl ...more>>
Hydroelectric power is listed as a very clean source of power, totally unpolluting. This conventional thought has been turned on its head ...more>>
Canadian wildlife authorities recently learned that indigenous wisdom is often better than modern computations.For many centuries the Cree, ...more>>
There is new
hope on the horizon for the critically endangered Giant Sable Antelope (Hippotragus
niger variani) of Angola. Fewer t ...more>>
The
Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) the rare Asian animal is staring in the
face of extinction. Saola
inhabits remote valle ...more>>
Mutualism
exhibited by Acacia plants and ants is a well known phenomenon. The plants
provide the a ...more>>
Have you ever wondered why flamingos stand on one leg? I have pondered over this many a time. Several hypotheses have been offered in the pa ...more>>
