News: August 2018
Surveying the Salamander’s Habitat in Honduras
A Bangor University student has just returned home from a six-week expedition to Honduras in Central America. Molly Mannion, 20, from Bangor has just completed the second year of her four-year MZool Zoology with Herpetology degree.
Publication date: 30 August 2018
Research methods that find serial criminals could help save tigers
A geographic profiling tool used to catch serial criminals could help reduce the casualties of human-tiger conflict, according to scientists who collaborated on an innovative conservation research study.
Publication date: 28 August 2018
Widespread giant African cobra revealed to be five distinct species
Cobras are among the most widely known venomous snakes, and yet a new research paper (ZOOTAXA 1 August 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4455.1.3 ) has revealed that what was thought to be a single widespread cobra species, the forest cobra, is, in fact, made up of five separate species. Two of these species, the Black Forest Cobra and the West African Banded Cobra, are new to science and are first named in this paper.
Publication date: 2 August 2018