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Tiny ant bodyguards keep massive elephants at bay
Sometimes size really doesn't matter. A new report published online on September 2 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows that puny ants can be the best defence against hulking elephants. Without their insect bodyguards, acacia trees in ...
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Reese Witherspoon To Film 'This Means War'
Reese Witherspoon has been enjoying time with her man Jim Toth and just wrapped up Water For Elephants with Robert Pattinson, but now she is set to film a new film about two men fighting for one woman's affections. This Means War will begin filming ...
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Asian Elephants Get a New Home at the Smithsonian National Zoo
Image Credit: Mehgan Murphy, National ZooIf you've been to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. lately, you may have noticed that they've been working on the first stage of their "Elephant Trails" project- a bold initiative ...
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Ants save trees from elephants
Ants defend certain trees from elephant predation so effectively that they are impacting entire savanna ecosystems
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Robert Pattinson Almost Squashed by Elephant
Robert Pattinson was almost squashed by an elephant on the set of his new movie. The Twilight Saga hunk, who stars alongside Reese Witherspoon in the forthcoming film Water for Elephants, narrowly escaped being rolled on by a huge grey animal .
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Tree's weapon against elephants? Ants
The insects that live in a certain acacia sting the tender inside of pachyderms' trunks, deterring the hungry giants, ecologists report. The finding may be used to protect other vulnerable plants. Ecologists have discovered the secret weapon used by ...
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Small Things Do Count
Elephants are scared of ants! This is no myth but a proven fact.
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Elephants: India's New "National Heritage Animal" To Receive Same Protection As Tigers
Photo: Elephant being bathed in a temple in Thrissur (K.C. Sowmish via The Hindu )As long-standing icons of its unique cultural psyche, India's threatened elephants are finally getting the protection -- and well-deserved recognition -- they need. ...
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Hungry Elephants Are No Match for Fearless Ants
Talk about your David and Goliath story: ant colonies have found a way to ward elephants away from their turf with painful, precise attacks.
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Wee ants protect African savanna trees from elephants
It's a David versus Goliath kind of story, with an ecological twist: In African savannas (regions with both trees and grass), acacia-dwelling ants can repel voracious, tree-eating elephants, according to new research by published online September 2 in ...
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Threatened by elephants? Try recruiting ants
Its a classic David and Goliath story, except there are 90,000 Davids and ...
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Ants Defeat Elephants to Save a Tree
An elephant's trunk is filled with nerve endings, making swarms of ants particularly prickly.
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Forget Mice, Elephants Really Hate Ants
An aversion to biting ants keeps elephants from ravaging the savanna
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Daily Briefing: Thurs.
Earl nears U.S. coasts, police kill D.C. eco-terrorist, India invests in elephants, and more.
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Tiny ant bodyguards keep massive elephants at bay
Sometimes size really doesn't matter. A new report published online on September 2 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows that puny ants can be the best defense against hulking elephants. Without their insect bodyguards, acacia trees in ...
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Ants protect trees from elephants
A species of acacia tree found in Eastern Africa seems to be protected from elephant damage - by the ants that live on it.
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It Wasn't Just a Job, But Truly an Adventure!
I am the luckiest - most blessed - guy in the world. These memories are part of the reason why. Recreation - Video Games - Games - Employment - Canada
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Fall books preview: Sara Gruen finds trust at 'Ape House'
'Water for Elephants' author shows her affinity for animals again in her novel about humans and animals at a university research facility.
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The Absent Word
Im new in this place and I really should have listened. I know that I should listen more often, but I think as a city kid theres that constant murmur of bustle and business that makes it hard to concentrate. I mean, if I just stop thinking for a ...
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University of Southampton takes prestigious knitting collection to Shetland
01/09/2010 05/09/2010, Shetland, United Kingdom A 1919 World War One 'Victory' tea cosy, miniature elephants and a pineapple purse are just a few of the knitted objects being taken by the University of Southampton to Shetland to exhibit at an ...
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The Aliens Among Us Are Friends
We all avoid different things. I avoid polyester clothing. They avoid talking about death. (Lisa Daxer)Projects on SETI projects look for extraterrestrial signals from space. Work with dolphins, elephants, even chickens seeks to see if these ...
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The Equal Rites Awards - Again
Boston - And so we rise to celebrate Aug. 26, the 90th anniversary of the day American women finally won the right to vote. It took nine decades to get a third woman on the Supreme Court. But in politics, alas, we have gone from radical women chaining ...
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Kenyan authorities seize illegal ivory, rhino horns
Nairobi- Kenyan authorities have arrested two people on suspicion of trying to smuggle over two tonnes of illegal ivory and five rhino horns to Malaysia, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Monday. The tusks, which were mainly taken from 150 elephants who ...
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This week's top stories [20 August 2010]
Our top articles ranked by reader popularity. E=mc2? Not on Conservapedia Tide turns against million-dollar maths proof Elephants fear humans more than dynamite 'Swiss-army knife' telescope tops astronomers' wish list Flexible tubes could bring ...
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MNN week in review: Living fossils and circus elephants
Catch up on the environmental headlines from the week of Aug. 15-21.
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Reese Witherspoon: Stand Up Gal
Reese Witherspoon grabs a cup of coffee after leaving a salon in Los Angeles on Thursday (August 19).The 34-year-old Water for Elephants actress recently committed to appearing on the multinetwork Stand Up to Cancer telethon on September 10. ...
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Habitats | Soundview, the Bronx: Gods, Goddesses and Elephants for Luck
A Guyanese family in the Bronx have filled their home, which adjoins a Hindu temple, with dozens of deities.
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Elephants in the Room
Is it not heartening to politicians to seize and distribute todays wealth and promise more in future obligations knowing that erosion of the value of fiat currency will reduce the burden of government debt incurred? Is not their public debt simply a ...
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The smart bike that pedals and twitters across America
by Ashley Braun.Humans think theyve got the market cornered on electronic communication, but a twittle bird told us thats no longer the case. Not when houseplants twitter , elephants text , and now bikes are getting on Tweetdeck too.This particular
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Elephants learn to dance on net neutrality
From John Gappers Business blogNet neutrality was always a slippery concept, which may account for the fact that the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have such different accounts of talks between Google and Verizon over the vexed subject. ...
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