The authors write: “The rubbing and rolling response transfers nepetalactone from the plant leaves onto the cat’s face and head where it acts as a mosquito repellent, finally revealing the likely biological significance of this enigmatic feline behavior, first observed more than 300 years ago”.
You can give them a few nibbles of Thanksgiving food like turkey meat (without bones and skin), sweet potato, pumpkin, and unseasoned veggies like carrots, green beans, and peas.
A substantial portion of the carbon dioxide the bats exhaled during a workout (up to 60 percent) came from metabolizing fuel other than the carbs or fats that typically power a running mammal, the team reports November 6 in Biology Letters.
Kellie B. Gormly—A kitten and cat rescuer and foster mama whose nickname is “Mother Catresa”—is an award-winning veteran journalist who freelances for national publications, including The Washington Post, History.com, Woman's World, and FIRST for Women.
The purpose of the research for this article is intended to shine a positive light on black cats who have been unfairly judged for centuries.
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In a personal essay she penned for the New York Times, de Vos recounts a handful of fellow scientists from wealthier nations who questioned her authority as a researcher from an impoverished country, assuming that she would “lack the knowledge, know-how and interest to participate in marine conservation.”
The method, described October 13 in the Journal of Applied Ecology, captures DNA floating around the marsupial’s natural environment using filters made of cheesecloth, a gauzy fabric commonly found in kitchens.
Now at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Sde Boker campus in Israel, she wants to know whether ethanol changes hornet social interactions or the frequency of tending larvae.
“This discovery,” says study coauthor Zeb Hogan, a fish biologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, who leads the USAID-funded Wonders of the Mekong project, “is not just about saving the salmon carp, but about protecting one of the greatest biodiversity hot spots on Earth.”
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A graduate student in entomologist Jason Rasgon’s lab at Penn State noticed that some male mosquitoes would sometimes feed on blood through a thin artificial membrane when researchers dropped the humidity and took away their usual nectar meals.
