animals
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You Can Design Your Garden to Deter Snakes
Snakes are often helpful for their ability to keep pests like mice in check in our gardens — but you probably also don’t relish the idea of coming across a poisonous one in your yard while you’re weeding. We generally prefer them to be helpful at a distance, which we can encourage by what we…
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Why Do Dogs Eat Grass and Is It Safe?
Have you ever wondered why your dog is eating your beautifully cropped lawn or nibbling at the grass at the dog park? Eating grass is a common behaviour in pet dogs. Some surveys show up to 80% of guardians notice their dog regularly snacking on the grass. Grass eating isn’t a new behaviour either, or…
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An Expert’s Guide to Helping Injured Wildlife in Australia
It’s worth knowing what to do in a situation if you do see injured wildlife so we got advice from Liz Arthur of Taronga Wildlife Hospital.
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Animal Clitorises Are More Varied Than Originally Thought, but Can Male Animals Find Them?
The sometimes astonishing sex lives of animals are well known, especially the huge range in penis structures, evolved to increase the number of offspring that males father. For example, ducks have corkscrew-shaped penises, and echidnas (also known as spiny anteaters) have a four-headed penis. But what about female genitalia? For hundreds of years, scientists assumed…