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News Articles: Animals

Filou worked with scientists for two years to help them test a theory about how harbor seals use their whiskers to hunt.

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  • Science

How seals' whiskers make them master underwater hunters

Their sensitive facial hair may be the harbor seals superpower for tracking fish, scientists are learning.

April 16, 2026
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Ducks swim in the Chattahoochie River.

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  • Animals

Ducks don't travel as far when their needs are met. That could affect how we manage bird flu

A new study from the University of Georgia looks at how birds move in diverse habitats, and what that could mean for the spread of avian influenza.

April 13, 2026
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By:
  • Chase McGee
The Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda's Kibale National Park is the largest known community of wild chimpanzees in the world. Over the last decade, it has split into two distinct groups that are hostile to each other.

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  • Science

What a chimpanzee 'civil war' can teach us about how societies fall apart

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war."

April 13, 2026
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By:
  • Nathan Rott
 A male Eastern box turtle collected from the future site of Solomon Park on Tybee Island on April 3, 2026. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight/Report for America

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  • News

Volunteers round up box turtles on Tybee

Early Friday morning, about a dozen volunteers scattered across a wooded patch of land on Tybee, looking for box turtles.

April 08, 2026
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By:
  • Mary Landers and
  • The Current
About 12 fruit flies feed on a piece of food

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  • Animals

Fruit flies are coming for GA homes. Here’s how to keep them away for good

If you are struggling to keep fruit flies out of your Georgia home, you are probably not alone. The hotter it gets, the more you’ll see them flying around, but there are ways to keep them away for good.

April 07, 2026
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By:
  • Chelsea Madden and
  • The Telegraph
Shellear fish have certain anatomical traits making it possible for them to climb as well as swim.

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  • Science

These rock-climbing fish can shimmy up a 50-foot waterfall

New research from the Democratic Republic of Congo offers a behavioral and anatomical portrait of a species that can achieve surprising athletic feats.

April 05, 2026
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
This juvenile warty frogfish was raised in captivity at the Shedd Aquarium.

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  • Science

Domino, the warty frogfish, is the first of its kind to be raised in captivity

Scientists say the little fish may hold broader lessons for raising other marine species in captivity.

March 31, 2026
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
A group of sperm whales, including nonrelatives, work to keep a newborn calf afloat in the hours after its birth.

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  • Science

Scientists watch sperm whales work as a team to assist a birth

An unprecedented look at the birth of a sperm whale found that mother and calf were supported by other whales throughout the process.

March 27, 2026
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By:
  • Nathan Rott
A coyote crosses a gravel road.

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  • Animals

Coyotes make their homes in human-made shelters near cities, according to new study

A new study from the University of Georgia looks at where coyotes are having their pups, including major cities like Atlanta.

March 20, 2026
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By:
  • Chase McGee
An experiment in nature-inspired design is underway in a South Florida residential canal. Two mangrove planters are being installed on a new seawall to provide habitat for marine wildlife.

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  • Science

Bringing marine life back to South Florida's 'forgotten edge'

Seawalls are great at protecting property and people. A new nature-inspired seawall add-on is trying to make them better at protecting marine wildlife too.

March 19, 2026
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By:
  • Nathan Rott
A new paper in the journal Royal Society Open Science describes evidence that the wood-feeding cockroach <em>Salganea taiwanensis</em> may engage in a behavior known as pair bonding.

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  • Science

These roaches form exclusive long-term relationships after eating each other's wings

Salganea taiwanensis, a kind of wood-feeding cockroach, may engage in what's known as pair bonding, a new study finds.

March 18, 2026
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Hummingbirds consume an average of two to three times their weight in nectar each day. (Steve Byland/Dreamstime/TNS)

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  • Animals

Hummingbirds are almost back in GA for 2026. Here’s when to put out your feeders

Little fluttering, ruby-throated creatures are coming to Georgia this month. Hummingbirds can travel more than 3,000 miles during migration and in March, folks in Georgia get to see their tiny wings fly around once more. But when should you put our feeders? And how else can you attract hummingbirds? Here’s what to know:

March 09, 2026
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By:
  • Chelsea Madden and
  • The Telegraph
Researchers collected and analyzed urine from chimpanzees in a Ugandan forest after they'd eaten fermented fruit to determine how much alcohol they'd consumed.

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  • Science

Chimps' taste for fermented fruit hints at the origins of humans' love of alcohol

Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from the fermented sugars.

March 09, 2026
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
A Canada goose escorts goslings as they walk to a pond at Water Works Park, Thursday, May 4, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa.

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  • Animals

Come along with some geese as they migrate back from their southern winter havens

Geese's iconic "V" formations and trademark squawks can be seen and heard overhead as they go back and forth to the south through the year. But what does it take for such a long trip?

March 09, 2026
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Both turkey and black vultures discover and partake in this feast.

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  • Health

There's a growing number of black vulture deaths by bird flu. That worries UGA researchers

University of Georgia researchers tested 134 dead black vultures from seven Southeast states including Georgia. They found more than 84% tested positive for bird flu.

March 04, 2026
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
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