Traditionally, it’s the birds and the bees that get all the attention—unless you’re an entomologist. Then it’s the bees and the bees, not to mention the flies and the wasps and the moths … and, well, you get the picture. National Geographic Emerging Explorer Dino Martins gives us a look into the love lives of his favorite subjects. Most species of bees on the planet are solitary and not social like honeybees. Among the solitary species, females have nests to [...]

Battle for the Elephants explores the brutal slaughter of African elephants for their tusks, fueled largely by China’s demand for ivory. The film tells the ultimate wildlife story — how the Earth’s most charismatic and majestic land animal today faces market forces driving the value of its tusks to levels once reserved for precious metals. Journalists Bryan Christy and Aidan Hartley take viewers undercover as they investigate the criminal network behind ivory’s supply and demand. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, one [...]

Global warming and environmental destruction are driving coyotes, bears and mountain lions out of their habitats, but that’s only part of the reason why so many animals call the city home. By John Mahoney Posted 12.19.2012 at 9:01 am It’s been a while since he tried to count them all, but Stan Gehrt estimates that more than 2,000 coyotes make a comfortable living in the Chicago metropolitan area today. And in the 12 years he’s spent tracking the animals with [...]

Recipe Method Mix egg and milk and whisk in the cooled butter. In another bowl mix 5 oz flour, 1 tsp baking powder and add in ½ tsp salt and 2 tbsp caster sugar. Pour milk mixture into egg mixture and by help of whisker keep whisking it till it becomes smooth. Let batter stand for few minutes. Heat a small frying pan and brush with butter or oil and add a tbsp of batter and let it cook, these [...]

Recipe Method To prepare dough dissolve 1- 1 ½ tbsp yeast in Luke warm water and add in 1 tsp sugar; mix it well and keep it for 15 minutes. Take ½ kg flour and add in salt, 1 tsp baking powder and yeast. Knit it properly and keep it for 3-4 hours. Again fold the dough with your hand. Roll it; pizza dough is ready. To prepare chicken, in a mixing bowl take 1tsp crushed black pepper, 1tbsp garlic [...]

GSMArena team, 23 February 2013. Introduction Modern smartphones are essential tools for urbanites, but they are usually left behind on a trip to the great outdoors. Not the Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 though, it will gladly join in the adventure and isn’t afraid of a few knocks or a dive. What sets the Galaxy Xcover 2 apart from most other phones is the IP67 certification. The first digit, the 6, means that the phone is completely dust tight and won’t [...]

General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 4G Network LTE (market dependent) SIM Micro-SIM Announced 2013, February Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2013, March Body Dimensions 137.4 x 68.2 x 9.3 mm (5.41 x 2.69 x 0.37 in) Weight 143 g (5.04 oz) Display Type Super LCD3 capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors Size 1080 x 1920 pixels, 4.7 inches (~469 ppi pixel density) Multitouch Yes Protection Corning [...]

Feb. 20, 2013 — The tropics are home to an extraordinary diversity of insect species. How great is it, exactly? We do not know, but today, researchers at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History published a study on tropical beetles that can help us progress towards an answer to this question. The paper was published in the open access, peer-reviewed journal Zookeys. Entomologists Michael Caterino and Alexey Tishechkin have named 138 new species within the genus Operclipygus (the name [...]

An endangered species is a population of an organism (usually a taxonomic species), which because it is either few in number or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters, leaving it at risk of becoming extinct. Many countries have laws offering special protection to these species or their habitats: for example, forbidding hunting, restricting land development or creating preserves. Only a few of the many endangered species actually make it to the official lists and obtain legal protection. Many more [...]

A carnivore is an animal that eats a diet consisting mainly of meat, whether it comes from live animals or dead ones (scavenging). Some animals are considered carnivores even if their diets contain very little meat (e.g., predatory arthropods such as spiders or mantids that may rarely consume small vertebrate prey). Animals that subsist on a diet consisting only of meat are referred to as obligate carnivores. The word also refers to the mammals of the Order Carnivora, many (but [...]