Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to ...

Bhubaneswar: Forest officials thwarted a poaching attempt by five in Similipal Tiger Reserve on Tuesday and arrested two of ...

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“Melanism is something that occurs very rarely within birds and mammals,” said Adams in a statement sent to IFLScience. “I’ve heard about it before in other species of penguins so I’ve ...

BHUBANESWAR: The special enforcement wing of the Similipal South wildlife division probing the melanistic tiger poaching case has found that the accused arrested so far were in contact with at ...

BHUBANESWAR: Even as the Forest department grapples with the poaching of the melanistic tiger, investigation has revealed the sub-adult big cat, skin of which was recovered from a fringe village ...

In 2015, on Japan’s forested island of Yakushima, a male macaque jumped up onto the back of a female sika deer and started trying to mate with it. At the time, researchers believed that the male ...

A melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger was killed by poachers in Similipal Tiger Reserve, the world's only habitat for these rare tigers. Authorities arrested four men and seized the hide, nails ...

(NewsNation) — Researchers are warning that chronic wasting disease (CWD) — also known as “zombie deer” disease — could spill over to humans. A new report from the University of Minnesota detailed ...

A sizeable number of tigers in Similipal exhibited pseudo-melanism, characterised by black stripes that were much more pronounced than the typical coloration of a Royal Bengal Tiger. It was ...

This was Rupa’s third litter and the cubs were born to Rupa and a melanistic tiger named Krishna. In her first litter, Rupa had mated with tiger Rajesh and given birth to three cubs in 2022. In the ...