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Lately, there has been a buzz about the existence of a certain long accepted to be extinct species. The Tasmanian tiger is no longer alive. The reports of Its long-term survival have been greatly exaggerated.
(Photo : Australian Museum)
Recent Sightings
The massive marsupial creatures known scientifically as thylacines, which looked more like wild dogs than tigers, spread across Tasmania and the Australian mainland, were declared extinct in 1936. The president of the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia, Neil Waters, promised definitive photographic evidence of a surviving thylacine on Feb. 23. He reported the four images showed a family of thylacines traveling through thick brush, including a juvenile. The news sparked a frenzy of enthusiasm among wildlife enthusiasts.
When a tree falls in the forest, it’s the birds that don’t make a sound, study finds
A new study evaluated soundscape saturation in a tropical forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, before, during and after selective logging activities.
It found that animal sounds promptly dropped after selective logging, but that the soundscape would recover after about a year. But two or three years after logging, soundscape saturation diminished again.
Insects appeared to be less affected by selective logging than birds, the study found.
Another expert not involved in the study says more realistic findings would have been obtained by recording the sounds from random locations in the forest instead of at the specific logging sites.
Powerful photos from 30 years of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition published in new book
Showcases the most striking and challenging story-telling images from the award-winning competition
Includes an image of an orangutan climbing a tree in the Indonesian rainforest and elephants in Chad
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Unforgettable Photojournalism is published by the Natural History Museum
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