Australian birds have a lot to teach us about living long and happy lives according to Professor Gisela Kaplan from the Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour at the University of New England.
Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. Well, if ...
Rare Australian Bird Looks a Ridiculously Cute, Petrified Pokemon originally appeared on PetHelpful. I've always been fascinated by animals from other countries. The first time I went to a zoo in ...
Experts estimate the wildfires currently burning through southern Australia have killed over half a billion animal Australian magpies, a species unrelated to the other magpies found throughout the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Now that the covid omicron lockdown has thrown a wrench into ...
Of the many thousands of species of birds on Earth, only about 25 are known to do something special with their food—they dunk it in water before eating. Nobody knows for sure why the birds do it. It ...
Rochelle Steven receives funding from BirdLife Australia. She is affiliated with BirdLife Southern Queensland. Guy Castley receives funding from Birdlife Australia and is affiliated with the Glossy ...
Scientists have documented a surprising rate of sex reversal in wild Australian birds, a phenomenon that could be explained by rising pollution or other environmental triggers. A study of five common ...