• ‘Like kidnapping your grandpa’: why relocating orangutans threatens their survival

    ‘Like kidnapping your grandpa’: why relocating orangutans threatens their survival
    The endangered great apes of Malaysia and Indonesia struggle when translocated despite efforts to protect them, finds researchWhen authorities were called about reports of an orangutan in an Indonesian village, they arrived to find it bound with ropes by concerned local people. Worried about the animal’s proximity to humans, plans for translocation were made: removing it to an undisturbed forest habitat, far from human settlements, where it could peacefully live in the treetops. But when t
  • Cat owners asked to share pets’ quirks for genetic study

    Scientists hope project will shed light on how cats’ health and behaviour are influenced by their geneticsCat owners are being asked share their pet’s quirky traits and even post researchers their fur in an effort to shed light on how cats’ health and behaviour are influenced by their genetics.The scientists behind the project, Darwin’s Cats, are hoping to enrol 100,000 felines, from pedigrees to moggies, with the DNA of 5,000 cats expected to be sequenced in the next yea

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