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Why plants would try to poison the honeybees they wish to attract is a scientific mystery. Can honeybees learn whether nectar contains toxins? Dr Geraldine Wright (Newcastle University) will present data on how toxins in nectar affect a honeybee’s willingness to eat floral nectar on Sunday 1st April at the Society for Experimental Biology’s Annual Meeting in Glasgow.Honeybees are very clever and

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Males and females of various species often manage when they have sex to influence their chances of having offspring. For instance, nearly all chimpanzee sex takes place when females are at the most fertile points of their menstrual cycles.Curiously, females are known to sync up their menstrual cycles—and how fertile they are—in a number of primate species. Humans may synchronize menstrual cycles

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Scientists discovered that wild gibbons in Thailand have crafted unique songs as alarm calls to other gibbons, a discovery that might shed light on the evolution of spoken language.The sounds that animals make are traditionally thought of simply as signs of their basic mood. At times, however, animal sounds are used to communicate specific details about the world to others.For instance, vervet

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Michael Angilletta of Indiana State University, a U.S.-led team of international biologists, says some ants have adjusted to well to urban warming and may help other species adapt to such climate change.The researchers note large cities can be more than 10 degrees hotter than their surroundings, with such urban heat islands stressing animals and plants.The scientists discovered that ants in Sao

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Birds migrate for food and to escape winter. Seasonal migration lets birds avoid cold seasons and exploit food sources available only certain times of the year. Many birds breed in the Arctic and feast on insect swarms there during the brief summer. Come fall, they return home to southlands: southern USA, Central America, or South America. We think of them as "our" birds that go south for the

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"Indonesia has the most diverse shark and ray fauna and the largest shark and ray fishery in the world, with reported landings of more than 100,000 tons a year,'' said William White, a co-author of the sharks and rays research.Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday.The

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