By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Panaji, Aug 26: Now it won't take a sweaty, tiring, mosquito-bitten stakeout in the Western Ghats forests to hear the song of birds like the Drongo Cuckoo, the Pompadour Green Pigeon or the Grey-headed Bulbul.
After 10 years of jungle treks, enduring countless mosquito ....
Sydney, Aug 6: In an amazing discovery about the honeybee, scientists have found that Asian and European bees are capable of learning and understanding one another's secret dance languages. "Honeybees gauge the distance flown to a food source using a 'visual odometer' that logs ....
Toronto, Aug 6: Women count their calories when dining with men, but not so when eating with other women, says a new Canadian study. Research at Canada's McMaster University at Hamilton near Toronto has found that a woman dining with a man will gobble fewer calories than if she dines with anothe ....
Sydney, Aug 4: Researchers have unravelled the mysteries of why and how the queen bee controls the behaviour of her workers. University of Otago zoologists two years ago discovered that queen bees manipulate their offspring's behaviour by releasing a pheromone that blocks aversive learning ....
London, Aug 3: Hydrophones have revealed that bowhead whales can sing in different voices to attract a mate and thereby ensure the species' survival. This is probably because global warming has opened up the Northwest Passage in 125,000 years, enabling the 100 tonne bowhead whales of the norther ....
