passengersshe?dnevermetbefore,tobeginthe journeytowards Antarctica.“From seeing the wildlifetowitnessingsunrises,thewholeexperiencewasamazing.Antarcticaleftanimpression onmethatnootherplacehas,”Ginnisays.“IrememberthefirsttimeIsawahumpbackwhale;it justroseoutofthewaterlikesomeprehistoric creatureandIthoughtitwas...
Also known as the Amur tiger, the mighty Siberian tiger is the biggest cat species in the world. Primarily found in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range in the Russian Far East, with small populations in China and possibly North Korea, this species has adapted to the cold, harsh environment of ...
When you’re dealing with such categories like color, species and shape, you can’t easily measure the “distance” between data points like you can with scalar data. Various techniques, like using dummy variables or specialised distance measures, can be employed to include non-scalar data in ...
2018). Most of these frameworks focus on the steps of invasion as a species transitions from its first introduction to a new place, through its establishment, spread, and integration with the local ecosystem and the attendant impacts. Within those frameworks, we focus on the transport and entry...
The European stag beetle haslong front mandibles,which males use for both courting females and wrestling opponents. The species' population is growing smaller, partly due to over-clearing in forests. Macrodontia cervicornis: Sabertooth longhorn beetle ...
Numbers of most animal species worldwide are going down. For example, in the 1970s, there were about 1,200,000 African elephants. Today there are only about 500,000. In the 1970s, there were about 200,000 African lions. Today, there are fewer than 21,000. But there is some good ne...
Dinosaurs grew in population and diversity during their time on Earth before becoming extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period. No one knows precisely how many types of dinosaurs inhabited the planet. There are currently about 700 named species, but this probably represents a fraction of the ...
Those ears and that face belong to a serval cat, a wild feline species native to Africa. Thanks to the worldwide obsession with finding newer and more exotic animals to keep as pets, many servals are bred and sold in the pet trade. But do serval cats make good pets?No matter how dom...
Tree species represent 20% of the vascular plant species worldwide and they play a crucial role in the global functioning of the biosphere. The Mediterranean Basin is one of the 36 world biodiversity hotspots, and it is estimated that forests covered 82% of the landscape before the first human...
Vicuna wool is the most expensive type of wool in existence, which is partially due to the Peruvian government’s attempts to protect this endangered species. 9. Llama Wool Llama wool is generally too rough to be worn next to the skin, but it is suitable for outerwear garments. It’s...