Currently considered near threatened on the IUCN Red List, the little-known marbled cat may at greater risk from habitat disturbance than previously thought, a new study says. The study authors ...

Roads and other forms of human linear infrastructure are a major source of direct mortality for wildlife. They present substantial threats to global ecosystems through collisions with vehicles and ...

"Squirrels deciding and learning how to launch and land demonstrates the synergistic roles of biomechanics and cognition in robust gap-crossing strategies." Source: Dariusz Grosa, Pexels, free ...

Camera trap photos show arboreal animals living hundreds of feet above the ground Ashley Goetz Conservation biologist Tremie Gregory climbs a tree in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest to set up a camera ...

Slow-moving and sleepy, sloths live high in rainforest canopies, rarely descending to the forest floor. Bright-eyed and sticky-footed, these frogs cling to leaves and hunt insects in humid rainforests ...

The fine-branch niche is a natural setting found among the slender vines and terminal branches of shrubs and tree canopies. In this study, the authors designed two simulations of this setting for ...

In July 2014 Super Typhoon Rammasun swept over Hainan, an island province of southern China, destroying at least 23,000 houses and causing $2 billion in damage. It was not just people who experienced ...

Directed aerial descent (DAD) is used by a variety of arboreal animals to escape predators, to remain in the canopy, and to access resources. Here, we build upon the discovery of DAD in ants of ...

Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) climbs the trees to eat fruits by breaking branches, and arboreal feeding signs (AFS) are formed in trees. We focused on hard mast tree and researched the ...

"Squirrels deciding and learning how to launch and land demonstrates the synergistic roles of biomechanics and cognition in robust gap-crossing strategies." Source: Dariusz Grosa, Pexels, free ...