Shining a light on the wonders, struggles and triumphs of the natural world
Primatologist Frans de Waal believes that the way humans experience emotion is not unique: “That’s a spectrum of behavior that we have, and the same thing is true for many other species.”(Image credit: AFP/Getty Images)
via Sex, Empathy, Jealousy: How Emotions And Behavior Of Other Primates Mirror Our Own — News : NPR
A Q&A with the intelligent and charming Charmaine Pedrozo, who is studying people’s emotional responses to wildlife as part of her master’s thesis.
via Q&A with Charmaine Pedrozo: Studying Emotional Responses to Wildlife — The Jaguar
Around 50 million years ago, long before the Epoch of the Twilight Beasts, a little mammal, Eohippus, scurried about in the forests of North America. This creature, about the size of an average dog, was the ancestor of the magnificent horse we know today. During this Period, called the Eocene, the environment and climate was […]
By Damian Carrington as published on The Guardian The huge loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilization, say the world’s leading scientists Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an […]
The first people who populated the Americas – http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170328-the-first-people-who-populated-the-americas
