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Camera traps show seven arboreal mammal species actively using artificial canopy walkways in an unfragmented Amazon forest, providing key insights for tropical conservation corridor design.

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Easy prey: Opportunistic predation of great fruit-eating bat (Artibeus lituratus) by ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) with ocular anomaly in Cerros de Amotape National Park, Tumbes.

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Non-native species are widespread across inselbergs in Brazilian tropical forests, with many of them invasive, highlighting an urgent need for intervention.

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Two records of the giant planarian species 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑠 𝑔𝑎𝑦𝑖 preying on the invasive slug 𝐿𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑥 𝑚𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑠 in Chile's temperate forests reveal two distinct types of predatory behaviour and elicit ecological considerations.

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Researchers explore how termites and ants share nests, looking at patterns of termite–ant cohabitation networks across different forest coverages in the Colombian Amazon, with a focus on taxonomic composition, nesting substrates, and ant functional guilds.

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Researchers investigate the prevalence and parasitemia levels of avian malaria in a tropical dry forest region in eastern Guatemala, finding no significant differences between urban and rural bird populations.

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This adorable new species of velvet worm from Ecuador, however, was loved by all.

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During recent botanical explorations in thе Cordillera del Cóndor, researchers discovered a new species of 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑏𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑎. Find out all about it here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

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Researchers explore how high temperatures and drought affect the germination of two endangered Populus species from the Neotropical region of Mexico.

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Genetic diversity in pudu deer from southern Chile is negatively impacted by native forest fragmentation, highlighting the need to maintain forest continuity for the species' conservation and long-term survival.

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It's World Snake Day, which means its time to revisit this incredible video of two red-tailed coral snakes competing over a caecilian in the first documented case of kleptoparasitism (food theft) in wild elapid snakes! 🐍

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