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Beetles with fighting experience make better mothers
Burying beetle and larva. Fighters spend more time tending to their young A study commissioned by The University of Edinburgh...

Exotics centre inundated with reptiles
Around 50 snakes, including corn snakes, boa constrictors and king snakes have been admitted to RSPCA Brighton. Around 50 snakes...

Zoonotic disease outbreaks in unlikely ‘hotspots’, study finds
Areas of high species diversity, such as the tropics, with a more zoonotic host species did not have correlating levels...

Drop in Welsh herds under TB restrictions
94.6 per cent of herds in the country were TB free during the first quarter of 2016. Data demonstrates progress...

Study suggests cats understand the laws of physics
The researchers found that the cats were more attentive to the containers that rattled when shaken in anticipation of a...

Companion animal trials to help human patients
The study focuses on dogs because of the similarities between their cancers and human cancers. Researchers test innovative treatment options ...