Tag Archive for animals

The Other Side of Suicide

The Other Side of Science

We don’t normally think of suicide as something that occurs outside of human populations, indeed, in my opinion to commit suicide has a very human feel to it. However, this may be changing due to recent discoveries in an area is quite unexpected: suicide in the animal kingdom.

How many species are out there?

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Another week gone and it’s time to spruce up your Friday with some facts to impress your friends. Show off these bright ideas and you’ll be sure fire hit with your Friday chums. Today, we talk animals and ask the question ‘How many are out there?’

Behind Afghanistan: War and the Wild

Snow Leopard of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is hardly the place you would expect to find some of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But how the environment of this war-torn nation has fared from decades of conflict is a great mystery. For the first time in 30 years, researchers have finally been able to ascertain just how the wildlife of Afghanistan is holding up.