by BioEdge | Mar 1, 2016 | Site Content
Crocuta crocuta photo © Tom Harkins Mammary bounty reveals maternal failure in spotted hyena It is easy to assume that those individuals of the spotted hyena photographed with an obvious udder are particularly successful mothers. In fact the opposite is true. It is...
by BioEdge | Feb 16, 2016 | Site Content
Crocuta crocuta photo © AindriúH Habitat specialisation by spotted hyena for treeless grassland The spotted hyena is, worldwide, the only large carnivore specialised for treeless grassland on plains. Its current success in woodlands in national parks and game reserves...
by BioEdge | Nov 30, 2015 | Site Content
Have rock hyraxes been shaped by a capricious Creator, or just recreational killing by baboons? Consider the pros and cons of being a rock-dwelling mammal. One pro is that boulder outcrops are abundant, so there is ample real estate. Indeed, such outcrops look similar...
by BioEdge | Nov 15, 2015 | Site Content
Evolutionary pressure to be mammal-like seems like water off these ratites’ backs. One of those factoids of natural history is that kiwi are honorary mammals on one remote, mammal-free archipelago in the southwest Pacific. But in reality these birds have as many...
by BioEdge | Nov 13, 2015 | Site Content
A triad of reciprocity may bring out the best in social insects, lycaenids and legumes.In Australia there are many types of plants dispersed and sown by ants. The seeds of these plants have a small but nutritious food-body which is eaten by the ants. The...
by BioEdge | Oct 29, 2015 | Site Content
Nature’s geometrical caricatures point out our everyday blindness to where the tails of fishes really begin and end. The oarfish and the ocean sunfish are unusual fishes of the deep sea. Both are widespread in the tropical to temperate oceans, although...
