By Su Chin-feng and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe termites that cause the most serious damage to buildings in Taiwan are of the Formosan and Asian subterranean species, a National Chung Hsing University study has found.
Taipei, Sept. 9 (CNA) Southern tamanduas born in captivity remain driven by their feeding instinct even when in nonnative natural settings, Taiwanese zoologists posited after studying a southern tamandua that escaped from a local zoo two years ago.
By Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff writer, with CNAAn anteater that escaped from Taipei Zoo survived by eating termites similar to those found in its native habitat as well as ants in tree canopies, which is likely how it avoided being killed by dogs, National Chung Hsing University researchers said yesterday.