Hyraxes are a cuddly-looking group of small mammals that also happen to be the closest living relatives of elephants and manatees.
, an anthropologist and primate ecologist at the City University of New York who led the research. ”There’s a hell of a lot we do not know, still, about tree hyraxes,” he adds. In decades of studying the animals living in west African forests, Oates says he’d never actually seen a tree hyrax in the wild until he and a colleague installed camera traps and caught one on tape.
With decades of experience studying the sounds of nocturnal mammals in the region, Bearder says he knew right away that he was hearing something unique from other tree hyraxes. “It was immediately obvious to me. The calls were so different, they couldn’t be just closely related, they had to be completely different species.”
Calls are often important for members of a species to recognize each other, find mates, and defend territory, says Oates. “The call will say, as with bird calls, ‘I am here, this is the kind of thing I am…’ If it’s a male bird singing, it may be saying both ‘this is my territory, don’t come here’, if you’re another male, or if you’re a female, ‘look, what a wonderful song I have. Please come and be my partner.
Another proposed new tree hyrax species described by Hanna Rosti and her colleagues in 2020 is found in the Taita Hills of Kenya. Here, its sausage-toes are on display.
Deutschland Neuesten Nachrichten, Deutschland Schlagzeilen
Similar News:Sie können auch ähnliche Nachrichten wie diese lesen, die wir aus anderen Nachrichtenquellen gesammelt haben.
How do you photograph a wild elephant? With 1,100 pounds of gear.Designing camera traps for the world’s largest animals was an elephantine task. Here's how National Geographic’s photo engineer did it
Weiterlesen »
Digital Marketing in Africa: Everything You Need to Know | HackerNoonBusinesses in the continent take pride in running tv campaigns. Television is the holy grail of advertisement in Africa. - growthmarketing digitalmarketing
Weiterlesen »
Donors must act now to save East Africa from famine, IRC saysDonors need to provide cash now to save lives and not wait for famine to be declared in parts of East Africa where tens of millions of people are going hungry, the head of the International Rescue Committee said on Tuesday.
Weiterlesen »
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Gather at COP27 as Climate Crisis Devastates AfricaWealthy nations gathered at the U.N. climate conference, particularly the U.S., must finance loss and damage for poorer nations in the Global South.
Weiterlesen »
What a lettuce farm in Senegal reveals about climate-driven migration in AfricaThe farmers on this field could no longer tend to crops in their own countries. Desertification, short or long rainy seasons, or salinization made it impossible.
Weiterlesen »
What a lettuce farm in Senegal reveals about climate-driven migration in AfricaIn western Senegal, people come from all over West Africa to harvest lettuce and plant seeds. Workers tell tell NPR about the push factors that made them leave their home countries, as well as the pull factors in Senegal.
Weiterlesen »