Animals

Baby chicks

Sciences & Technology

The vaccine improving the health of Australia's chickens

A new vaccine is protecting one-day-old chicks from a pneumonia-like illness that costs the poultry industry millions of dollars each year

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Sciences & Technology

How to give your animal friends a stress-free holiday season

From posing for the family Christmas photo to the hot days of summer – here are some tips to help give your pet a happy holiday as well

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Environment

Design for (all) life

Humans create most designs for themselves, but can and should use opportunities to make spaces that benefit all forms of life

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Health & Medicine

Why giraffes have spots

A new study provides the first anatomical proof of why giraffes have spots – and how they relate to plastic surgery

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Sciences & Technology

Be alert, not alarmed about foot and mouth disease

The spread of foot-and-mouth disease to Bali was not unexpected, but what we each do next will determine the consequences for Australia

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Sciences & Technology

The treatments keeping landmine detection dogs in the field

New research identifies the best treatments to protect Cambodia’s crucial landmine detection dogs from deadly tick-borne diseases

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Sciences & Technology

Looking inside a pigeon’s ear using quantum technology

Quantum microscopy is able to image tiny biological magnetic structures inside a pigeon’s ear and may help to explain how animals use magnetic fields to navigate

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Sciences & Technology

Whale migration in our noisy oceans

Mathematical modelling reveals that human-driven noise in our oceans is affecting marine life, particularly whales, confusing their annual migrations

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Arts & Culture

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Podcast

If our animals could speak

Dr Laura Jean McKay, winner of the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for literature, discusses her astonishing first novel – The Animals in That Country

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Sciences & Technology

Life after the pandemic for your (new) pet

As some of us take the first steps to returning to life after lockdown, there are steps that can help your pet adapt to the new normal – especially if social distancing is the only life they’ve known

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