FINDINGS.

TIME perception; NATURAL resources; KARST; SNOW leopard; DINOSAUR extinction; CROCODILES; SHARKS

A study published in Laterality found that some greater white-fronted geese in flight tend to look sideways more often when their mates are present. The study suggests that researchers may have been underreporting same-sex sexual activity among animals. Other findings include Darwin's frogs mating and laying eggs upside down, mature Egyptian fruit bats having a sense of time, and Florida carpenter ants selectively amputating their nest mates' injured limbs. Additionally, DNA samples from bite marks on surf equipment are being used to identify shark species responsible for attacks on humans, and the ocean was found to be growing too noisy for baby oysters. MIT scientists have catalogued the phonetic inventory of sperm whales, and two male lions survived a dangerous swim through hippo- and crocodile-infested waters, likely in search of mates. The depression of the Thames population of swans continues under the current king's reign, according to the royal swan marker. UNESCO has awarded World Heritage status to the blanket bog of Flow Country, while the last stand of Key Largo tree cacti in the United States has been killed by rising seas. Giant wallabies, extinct for 10,000 years, were unlikely to have been able to hop, and the extinction of dinosaurs may have contributed to the rise of grapes. Smithsonian scientists have proposed cryopreserving Earth's biological resources in the shadowed craters of the moon. Evidence of an aboriginal healing ritual performed for generations was discovered in Cloggs Cave, and [Extracted from the article]

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