A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

Conservation & Society, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2010), pp. 127-139 (13 pages) Tropical forests are rapidly being lost across Southeast Asia and this is predicted to have severe implications for many of the ...

Nearly all of them are facing harm because of human activities. Researchers make concerning discovery while studying animals ...

as seed dispersal by animals is the primary dispersal mechanism for tropical trees and most seed-dispersing animals (in particular birds) are unlikely to move from forest into open agricultural ...

The data collected will help scientists unravel the mysteries of tropical bird migration.“In South America the study of migration is in a natural history phase.

The bird communities in the sites that were selectively ... "We believe our findings offer reasons for hope in the ...

March 11 (UPI) --Four Dominican nationals have been sentenced for attempting to smuggle tropical birds from San Juan, Puerto Rico, into the Dominican Republic, and then drowning them to "cover up ...

Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results. Understanding tree traits ...