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Feral female buffalo build friendships based on similar personality traits, study reveals

Female buffaloes rest in the fields of Pui O on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, in September 2023. Credit: Dr Debottam Bhattacharjee Similar social personalities strongly influence friendships in humans, yet we know relatively little about how animals choose their friends. But a new study by researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) investigating a […]

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Biologists identify traits correlating with all bird extinctions since 1500

A critically endangered ‘Akikiki that study lead author Kyle Kittelberger photographed on Kauai in 2022. Credit: Kyle Kittelberger Looking to inform the conservation of critically endangered bird species, University of Utah biologists have completed an analysis identifying traits that correlate with all 216 bird extinctions since 1500. Species most likely to go extinct sooner were […]