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'Seemingly impossible': Endangered tortoise becomes first-time mom at about 100 years old
A roughly 100-year-old western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise has become a mom for the first time after reproducing with a ...
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Traffic Noise May Be Making These Bright Yellow Birds More Aggressive in the Galápagos Islands, Study Suggests
To test this, they visited 38 yellow warbler nesting sites on two different islands: Santa Cruz Island, which has ...
Philadelphia Zoo hatches 4 endangered Western Galapagos tortoises
PHILADELPHIA — On Thursday, the Philadelphia Zoo announced the hatching of four critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises for the first time in the zoo’s 151-year history. The ...
Traffic noise is making these Galápagos birds more aggressive
The Galápagos yellow warblers on the more populous island of Santa Cruz also increased the duration of their song when ...
Couple new parents to 4 babies at nearly 100 years old? It happened in Philadelphia
OK, so the parents are endangered Galapagos tortoises. The Philadelphia Zoo shared the happy news about its oldest and most ...
Traffic noise triggers road rage — in birds, scientists say: ‘Could result in a physical fight’
Humans aren’t the only ones who are prone to road rage. Scientists have found that certain songbirds in the Galapagos behave ...
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Bald eagle chick hatches on Santa Cruz Island. Here's how to watch live
A pair of bald eagles stood, a wobbly, days-old chick between them, in a nest on Santa Cruz Island off ... four of the eight Channel Islands, said Peter Sharpe, a wildlife biologist with the ...
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Traffic noise is making birds more aggressive in the Galápagos
The Galápagos Islands are a haven of biodiversity, situated over 800 kilometers from Ecuador. Long preserved, this ...