Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, together with American colleagues, have decoded the genome of the Pristionchus pacificus nematode, thereby gaining insight into the evolution of parasitism.
In their work, which has recently been published in Nature Genetics, the scientists from Professor Ralf J. Sommer’s department in Tübingen, Germany, have shown that the [...]
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A four-year-old cat in Germany called Bonny has survived after being walled in beneath a bathtub for seven weeks, its owner said Tuesday.
“It’s a miracle,” said Monika Hoppert, a 60-year-old widow from the western town of Stadthagen. “I’m a strong believer, I think she must have had a guardian [...]
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A 40-foot-long humpback whale took a detour on his way to summer feeding grounds in the Arctic and ended up near one of Germany’s favorite beach destinations, the idyllic island of Rügen. The whale’s jaunt is turning into an extended vacation.
This summer it’s not just tourists and fishermen enjoying the warm water of the Baltic [...]
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For the first time an international researcher team has developed a model, which identifies potential habitats and corridors for the European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris). Using Rheinland-Pfalz as an example, it was demonstrated that almost half of this German federal state could be suitable for wildcats, enabling a maximum population of 1600 females.
The model can [...]
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Consider the effect of climate change on animals and it’s the polar bear that invariably comes to mind, majestically astride a thinning ice floe, watching its habitat disappear.
The species is a powerful conservation symbol. But how much is it, and the public’s dawning enviro-consciousness, being cynically exploited because of it?
The story of two German polar [...]
The online marketplace eBay plans to ban the sale of dog and cat pelts on its German-language Web sites starting Tuesday.
Alexander Witt, a spokesman for eBay in Germany, said the ban was in response to protests from animal rights groups that believe clothing and other goods claiming to contain rabbit or mink fur are actually [...]
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It is a remarkably hairy close-up.
But this tiny microchip attached to a bee’s back will hopefully explain why so many honeybees are dying from disease.
Professor Juergen Tautz and his team at the University of Wurzburg in Germany are studying the health of more than 150,000 bees, in the hope of halting the apparently inexorable decline [...]
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Researchers in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Gabon, Germany, Japan, Rwanda, the United Kingdom, and the United States have found that simian foamy virus (SFV) is widespread among wild chimpanzees throughout equatorial Africa.
Recent studies have shown that humans who hunt wild primates, including chimpanzees, can acquire SFV infections. Since the long-term consequences of [...]
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A circus elephant escaped from its pen in the German state of Brandenburg overnight, police in Neurippen said on Wednesday.
The 22-year-old animal seemed to feel at home with traditional German cuisine, taking time out of his journey through the town of Neustadt to test out potato plants in a local garden. A resident noticed the [...]
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A pair of beavers have built what is believed to be the first dam in England for centuries.
The animals were hunted to extinction in England and Wales during the 12th century and disappeared from the rest of the country 400 years later.
However, two beavers from Germany were introduced to a river enclosure in Devon last [...]
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