Animals

Environment
How to help sick or injured wildlife this summer
Reporting animals in trouble can make a huge difference to our understanding of wildlife health and disease patterns

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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