21st January 2026, Brno Swallows can remove foreign eggs from their nests even without a “template” of what their own eggs should look like.…
Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences have documented the long-term presence and genetic diversity of lymphocytic choriomeningitis…
1:0 for AI – artificial intelligence recognises parasitic eggs better than the average ornithologist
Brno, 21 November 2025 Conspecific brood parasitism – a situation where females lay eggs in the nests of other females of the same species…
New international research conducted by a team including scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IVB CAS), Gorilla…
The Little Owl is one of the most rapidly declining farmland bird species in many European countries and its distribution has become highly fragmented…
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in zoo gorillas, but its origins remain unknown. Researchers from the University of Minnesota, in collaboration…
A recent study led by researchers from the University of Antwerp, the Institute of Vertebrate Biology (IVB) of the Czech Academy of Sciences and…
21st of November 2022 Thanks to scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, what used to take days…
May 25, 2021 [Musanze, Rwanda] – A scientific study published today in Scientific Reports [link] suggests that new health challenges may be emerging as…
Elephant-shrews, also called jumping shrews or sengis, are little-known African mammals that resemble shrews or rodents in appearance but are evolutionarily closer to elephants…
Sexual reproduction imposes risks on participating adults through increased probability of injury, predation pressure, or parasite exposure. Evolutionary theory predicts that animals will tolerate…