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African Forest Elephants Are Now Critically Endangered – Here's How to Count Them
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African Forest Elephants Are Now Critically Endangered – Here’s How to Count Them

A team of scientists compared methodologies to count African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were recently acknowledged by IUCN as a separate, Critically Endangered species from African savannah elephants. Credit:…

13 May 2021 · 4 min read

Female Monkeys Use Males As
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Female Monkeys Use Males As “Hired Guns” for Defense Against Predators

  Female putty-mosed monkey. Credit: C. Kolopp/WCS Female putty-nosed monkeys use calls just to recruit males when certain predators are detectedResults suggest that different “dialects” exist among different populations of…

12 May 2021 · 4 min read