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Why animal culture matters for conservation: a roadmap
An international group of researchers working on a wide range of species, from elephants and crows to whales and chimpanzees, argues that the cultural knowledge of some animals needs to be taken into consideration for their conservation.
The group highlighted the policy implications of animal culture in a 2019 Science paper and now provide an in-depth analysis with a roadmap for integrating animal culture into conservation, in a review, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. They argue that viewing behavioural variation through the lens of animal culture can provide new insights for conservation management.
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Can species adapt to a hotter world?
New research shows that species evolve faster to adapt to the climate getting colder than to it getting hotter, and that the rise in heat they can adapt to has limits.
Red honey ants endure temperatures above 50 °C in the Australian desert, while the springtail survives extreme cold of -30 °C in the Antarctic.
A new study, published today in Nature Communications, explores how evolution has prepared some species to withstand these temperatures and how fast different species evolve to changing temperatures.
Physiological tolerance to heat and cold determines where on the planet an organism can survive yet we have limited understanding of how this tolerance evolves over time. This is an area of increasing interest as the climate heats up more quickly than ever before.