Villagers caught a Meso tiger at Tengrali village in Sharsha upazila of the district on Thursday evening. Locals said a group of 10-12 people saw the Meso tiger in a paddy field of the village and caught it. Lutfar Rahman,…
Category: Wildlife
Dogs are smarter than cats!
Your canine friend may be smarter than felines as their brain possesses significantly more number of neurons linked to thinking, planning and complex behaviour, a new study has found. The findings show that while dogs have about 530 million cortical…
Scientists reveal Himalayan Yeti was in fact local bear
Legend-slaying scientists on Wednesday dismantled the myth of the abominable snowman, the towering yet furtive half-human rumoured for centuries to inhabit inaccessible reaches of the Himalayas. It turns out, they report in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B, that the…
106 Norwegian reindeer killed by freight trains in 3 days
A Norwegian reindeer herder says that freight trains have killed more than 100 of the animals on the tracks in three days. Torstein Appfjell, a distraught reindeer herder in Helgeland county, said Sunday that the worst incident happened Saturday when…
Indian police use elephants to clear their protected habitat
Indian police have taken the unusual step of using elephants in an attempt to evict hundreds of people living illegally in a protected forest area in the country’s remote northeast.
Polar bear crwd on Russian island – sign of Arctic change
A boatload of tourists in the far eastern Russian Arctic thought they were seeing clumps of ice on the shore, before the jaw-dropping realisation that some 200 polar bears were roaming on the mountain slope. “It was a completely unique…
Winged guests add to winter charm of JU campus
Migratory birds have started arriving at the lakes of Jahangirnagar University with the advent of winter. A huge number of enthusiastic bird loving people are thronging the university campus everyday to watch the migratory birds twittering and swimming in the…
Trump puts elephant trophy imports on hold
US President Donald Trump has suspended the import of elephant hunting trophies, only a day after a ban was relaxed by his administration. Imports of trophies from elephants legally hunted in Zambia and Zimbabwe had been set to resume, reversing…
1 million bees killed after Northern California truck crash
Auburn, Nov 4 (AP/UNB) – About 1 million bees have been killed after a truck carrying their hives crashed in Northern California.
JU butterfly fair Saturday
Savar – A butterfly fair will be held in Jahangirnagar University here on the campus Saturday.
Longest living dolphin in captivity dies in Japan aquarium
A female bottlenose dolphin has died at a Japanese aquarium only weeks after breaking a national record of more than four decades in captivity, an official said Thursday. Nana, thought to be around 47 years old, was discovered drowned on…
Longest living dolphin in captivity dies at Japan aquarium
A female bottlenose dolphin has died at a Japanese aquarium only weeks after breaking a national record of more than four decades in captivity, an official said Thursday. Nana, thought to be around 47 years old, was discovered drowned on…
Chimpanzees among 33 breeds selected for special protection
A UN-backed wildlife conference held in the Philippines has voted for additional protections for a list of 33 endangered species including chimpanzees, leopards and giraffes.
Lions, chimps, sharks get added protection under convention
Lions, chimpanzees, giraffes, leopards and a wide variety of sharks received added protection at a UN wildlife conference in the Philippines, organisers said Saturday. Some 34 endangered species were selected to receive heightened conservation efforts at the Conservation of Migratory…
New giant predatory dinosaur species found in southern Africa
An international team of scientists have found the footprints of a giant carnivorous dinosaur that roamed southern Africa 200 million years ago, the first proof that T. Rex-like predators existed during the Early Jurassic period. The newly discovered dinosaur, named…
Elephant electrocution along border on rise
Dhaka, Oct 24– Incidents of wild elephants getting electrocuted is on the rise along Bangladesh’s border with India since farmers have started installing generators and electric wires to protect their paddy fields from attacks by elephants coming from across the…
More species of snakehead fish found
Confusions over snakehead fish species identity need not bother ichthyologists any more, as a global digital database of the species has been developed. A global collaborative initiative involving as many as 10 scientific institutions has barcoded these freshwater fish varieties,…
Mass death of Antarctic penguin chicks alarm scientists
Almost the entire cohort of chicks from an Adelie penguin colony in the eastern Antarctic was wiped out by starvation last summer in what scientists say is only the second such incident in over 40 years. Researchers said Sunday the…
South Africa’s Rhino Paradox
Johannesburg – Earlier this year, South Africa’s Constitutional Court overturned a 2009 moratorium on trade in rhinoceros horns. It was a devastating blow for animal conservation groups, which had hailed a measure that aligned South Africa with the global ban…
Thousands of penguin chicks starve in Antarctica
Sydney, Oct (BSS/AFP) – Mass starvation has wiped out thousands of penguin chicks in Antarctica, with unusually thick sea ice forcing their parents to forage further for food in what conservationists Friday called a “catastrophic breeding failure”.
Four of a Rohingya family killed in elephant attack
A woman and her three minor children were trampled to death by an elephant and four others sustained injuries at Balukhali makeshift camp in Ukhiya upazila in the district. The deceased were identified as Taslima, wife of Abu Siddique, their…
Pangolin trade forces Ghana to look at new wildlife laws
Ghana is facing calls to update its laws on wildlife crime after fears the country has become a transit route for the illegal trade in pangolin scales. More than 31,000 kilograms (68,000 pounds) of scales from the nocturnal mammal have…
New evidence on how birds took to the air
New fossil evidence has pushed back a key step in the evolution of bird flight by millions of years. Skeletal changes that helped birds take to the air happened 120 million years ago, during the hey day of dinosaurs, according…
Five plants, animals we don’t want any more
From the American mink to the lionfish and the Argentine ant.They may not be household names but, according to experts, they’re top priority for attention over their potential risks to the environment. Already found in parts of Europe, they can…
6th mass extinction of wildlife threatens global food supplies
Plant and animal species that are the foundation of our food supplies are as endangered as wildlife but get almost no attention, a new report reveals The sixth mass extinction of global wildlife already underway is seriously threatening the world’s…
China morns the death of oldest Panda
China is mourning the death of the world’s oldest panda, Basi, who passed away at the age of 37. Caretakers in the eastern city of Fuzhou said Basi was suffering from a number of ailments, including liver and kidney problems,…
Elusive night parrot found in Australia, ecologists say
Wildlife researchers say they have found one of the world’s rarest birds in South Australia – the first proof of it there in more than a century.
‘Sea monster’ on Texas beach after Hurricane Harvey
A mysterious fanged sea creature that washed up on a beach in Texas following Hurricane Harvey has been identified.
US police kills tiger that wantered on busy interstate
Georgia police shot and killed a Bengal tiger on Wednesday after it escaped from a truck and wandered along a major interstate near Atlanta, frightening residents of a nearby subdivision. Feld Entertainment spokesman Stephen Payne said Suzy, a 6-year-old Bengal…
Missing zoo Python found in Rajshahi Judge’ Bangalow
Rajshahi – A python that went missing for 2 years from the Shaheed A H M Kamruzzaman Zoo of Rajshahi has been recently rescued from residence of District Judge of Rajshahi on Monday night.