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In our research based in Kibale National Park, Uganda, chimpanzees have been seen applying insects to their own open wounds on five occasions, and in one case to another individual.

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Analysis - Animals respond to injury in many ways. So far, evidence for animals tending wounds with biologically active materials is rare. Yet, a recent study of an orangutan treating a wound with a ...

Insect smuggling rarely grabs headlines, yet it has real consequences. The trades draw far less public concern than big‑animal crime.

Everyone loves fireflies, the famous light-emitting insects that flit through gardens on summer evenings! They form the ...

Dead trees also provide shelter for birds, such as six types of woodpeckers, owls, chickadees, bluebirds, wrens, nuthatches and American kestrels.

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These dragonflies landed on a wall near me recently as I was eating my lunch. At first, I thought it was a large, unusual ...

We often hear about how social media stokes division and removes us from human contact. But my favorite app brings us closer to nature — and each other.