Abstract: Behavioral traits of the species play an important role in functioning of the ecosystem and thus, biodiversity conservation and in evolving behavioural adaptations to survive according to environmental conditions. This note aims at adding a rare observation by placing photographic evidence of entanglement of a carcass of juvenile black kite Milvus migrans from the nest bowl and use of nest by an adult individual, guarding the carcass.... More

Abstract: In Cote d’Ivoire, beekeeping takes an important place among the major economic activities. It contributes to improve the population livelihoods thanks to its derived products which are honey, propolis, wax and royal jelly. However, the installation of honey bee hives could put pressure on wild bee species which are live often alone (solitary bees). However, these wild bees are excellent pollinators of cultivated and wild plants. Our study aimed... More

Abstract: In the present article, the author posits that the perception that animals apparently display a strategy of avoiding detection by means of camouflage—i.e., by disguising themselves in the natural colours of their environment—is not the actual case in nature but, rather, merely anecdotal. Animal coloration is mainly a-biotic (eco-physiological) and not biotic (camouflage). The contention regarding the absence of the phenomenon of camouflage among... More

Abstract: In this paper, the authors collected officially published literature on the South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) in Guizhou from 1900 to 1980, from which we extracted information on its historical distribution and population size, and collected data on the tiger skin trade after 1950, the change in subtropical broad-leaved evergreen forest cover, and demographic data in the relevant databases. GIS mapping was used to visualize the... More