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It was a cry of such loneliness and despair that everyone who heard it that night vowed that they had to act – and act fast. The lioness named Lady Liuwa was so lonely that she had come to humans, camped in the Liuwa National Park in Zambia, looking for company. The gutteral roar was the unmistakable call of friendship. She was the last surviving lioness in Liuwa – and her loneliness was enveloping her – her dreams of belonging to a pride and of motherhood long gone. The extraordinary story of how Lady turned to humans for companionship and love – and how they, in turn, fought to find her a family – has become one of the...

Many animals respond vocally when they detect predators, but it’s not clear to whom they are signaling, said Jessica Yorzinski, a graduate student in animal behavior at UC Davis who conducted the study with Gail Patricelli, professor of evolution and ecology. They might be warning others of the threat, but they might also be telling the predator, “I’ve seen you.” Yorzinski used a ring of directional microphones around a birdcage to record the songs of dark-eyed juncos, yellow-rumped warblers, house finches and other birds as they were shown a stuffed owl. All the birds were captured in the wild, tested, banded and released within 24 hours. Overall, the birds’ alarm calls were relatively omnidirectional, suggesting that they were given...

Many theoretical models had predicted this result, but until now there had been very few experimental trials and none in the case of saurians (reptiles). This experiment by Dror Hawlena, a researcher at Yale University in the United States, and Valentín Pérez-Mellado, a researcher at the University of Salamanca, has shown that certain animals, such as the insectivore lizard Acanthodactylus beershebensis, can change their behaviour and diet to avoid being eaten. “When there is greater pressure from predators, the individuals tend to move less and catch more mobile prey from somewhat different groups. The lizards’ diet and food-seeking behaviour changed significantly when we experimentally increased the predation pressure on them,” says Pérez-Mellado. The study, published recently in the journal...

A group of tourists were left horrified when they came across the grisly sight of a polar bear eating a cub in northern Canada. The large male adult bear had separated the baby from its mother and killed it in the Churchill Wildlife Management Area, in northern Manitoba, close to Hudson Bay. Witnesses were left shaken and tearful after the incident. According to scientists, eight cases of mature male polar bears eating cubs have been reported this year in Churchill. Four cases were reported to Manitoba Conservation and four to Environment Canada. Tour guide John Gunter said: ‘A big male polar bear separated a young cub from its mother and had its way with the cub. ‘But the whole...

Rescued eight years ago during a police drugs raid in Atlanta, Georgia, the three friends were only cubs at the time and barely two months old. They had been kept as status symbol pets by the drug barons. Delivered to the Noah’s Ark animal rescue centre in Locust Grove, Georgia, the decision was made to keep the youngsters together. “We could have separated them, but since they came as a kind of family, the zoo decided to keep them together,” said Diane Smith, assistant director of the Noah’s Ark zoo. “To our knowledge, this is the only place where you’ll find this combination of animals together, they are our BLT, (bear, lion and tiger). Living with the zoo’s founders...

Something as simple as feeding birds can change their biological fate, and even seed the formation of a new species. Central European blackcap warblers that spend the winter in the birdfeeder-rich United Kingdom are on a different evolutionary trajectory than those that migrate to Spain. The population hasn’t yet split into two species, but it’s headed in that direction. “This is reproductive isolation, the first step of speciation,” said Martin Schaefer, a University of Freiburg evolutionary biologist. Blackcap migration routes are genetically determined, and the population studied by Schaefer has historically wintered in Spain. Those that flew north couldn’t find food in barren winter landscapes, and perished. But during the last half-century, people in the U.K. put so much...

Beavers get tired too. For that reason, Berlin has fashioned a mini rest stop for the furry animals to take a break as they swim through the city in the Spree River. It marks a significant change since the times when Berliners saw beavers as a tasty treat during Lent. Swimming the Spree River in Berlin can be exhausting. So exhausting, in fact, that even beavers are having trouble making it. For years these furry animals, known to be excellent swimmers, have met their end from sheer exhaustion or the sharp blades of a ship’s propeller as they’ve tried to swim through Berlin. Now with just 30 beavers left, the city has given them their own place on the...

Blue whales are famed for their haunting songs that travel thousands of miles under the ocean. Now scientists have discovered the world’s largest mammals are singing in deeper voices every year – and they are not sure why. A study in the journal Endangered Species Research, has found male blue whales all over the world have lowered their tone. Mark McDonald of WhaleAcoustics first noticed the change about eight years ago when he had to shift automated blue whale song detectors off California to lower frequencies. He decided to compare the songs in areas ranging from the North Atlantic to the Indian Ocean with the help of researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California. They found all...

Turritopsis nutricula may be the world’s only “immortal” creature. Jellyfish usually die after propagating but Turritopsis reverts to a sexually immature stage after reaching adulthood and is capable of rejuvenating itself. The 4-5mm diameter creature, technically known as a hydrozoan, is the only known animal that is capable of reverting to its juvenile polyp state. Theoretically, this cycle can repeat indefinitely, rendering it potentially immortal. Found in warm tropical waters Turritopsis is believed to be spreading across the world as ships’ ballast water is discharged in ports. Though solitary, they are predatory creatures and mature asexually from a polyp stage. The jellyfish and its reversal of the ageing process is now the focus of research by marine biologists and...