Aboriginal hunting practice increases animal populations Date: October 24, 2013 Source: Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Summary: In Australia's Western Desert, Aboriginal hunters use ...

How a mound-building bird shapes its Australian ecosystem. ... Some animals — termed “ecosystem engineers ... “This way the birds create three new microsite types in an already mosaic ...

But when Moench began writing “Birds of North America,” which Mosaic Theater opens Oct. 27 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, she quickly realized that the subject allowed her to talk about ...

A survey of birds entering an Australian animal hospital shows a huge number of them carry chlamydia, including strains never seen before. Close. Advertisement. Skip to content. Sign in.

Glass artisans crafted images of birds and animals. Residents of Vicar's Landing senior citizen community glued pebbles, tile pieces, and other finishing touches onto the mosaic.

The black kite (pictured, an animal at Madagascar's Tsimbazaza Zoo) is one of the birds thought to spread fire in Australia. Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark.

But the native bird may have figured out how to overhaul its bad reputation. It has developed an "ingenious" method of eating one of the only animals Australians hate more - the cane toad, a toxic ...