Think twice the next time you call someone as quiet as a mouse—the rodents are actually sophisticated singers, a new study says. For the first time, scientists caught wild male house mice and used digital audio software to examine the durations, pitches, and frequencies of their sounds. The results revealed that the males’ songs are [...]
Evidence of big cats at large grows as charity investigates killing of roe deer at Woodchester Park near Stroud. Woodchester Park, where the dead roe deer was found. Photograph: National Trust A big cat – or cats – could be prowling around a beautiful wooded valley in Gloucestershire run by the National Trust, the charity [...]
Olympic competitors are quaking in their spiked running shoes after tales emerged of a killer creature lurking in swampy waters close to the 2012 site in London. According to reporter Louis Emanuel at the Hackney Citizen, the as-yet unidentified, monster was spotted dragging a 16lb Canada goose under the water “so fast it disappeared without [...]
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