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Macaques, good forest gardeners
3/23/12

Pig-tailed macaques ensure the natural regeneration of the tropical forests of South-East Asia provided that they are not disturbed too much.

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The piranhas are bigmouths
2/8/12

Whether it is to find a sexual partner or to see off an enemy, certain fish produce sounds. For their part piranhas sometimes start to grunt to warn that they are about to attack.

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The false extinction of ichthyosaurs
2/2/12

Whilst everyone had thought that they had – for the greater part – disappeared at the end of the Jurassic era, the ichthyosaurs actually had a much longer life.

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The aphids are showing resistance
12/28/11

Fighting crop pests by encouraging their predators is undoubtedly an option for the future.  Yet this is not easy to implement when they are found to be much closer than previously thought.

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The elephants’ graveyard
9/13/11

In forty years the elephant population in West Africa has been cut in half. The factors at play include drought, demographic pressure and poaching.

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