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The tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima), which is known as a destructive species in its own right, has emerged as a useful resource for detecting and containing the spread of spotted lanternflies.
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in A Prison Yard

When I finally made it through the gate and into the yard, I was amazed by the breadth of their branches. In the prison yard, their flourishing represented a kind of freedom that seemed out of place, ...
“Orangutan nest-building tendency may have some innate basis, but the details and method must be socially learned starting ...
Warwick primatologists, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute, have shown that young orangutans develop their nighttime nest-building skills via observational social learning—by closely ...
As the shadows deepened in a forest of central Vietnam, a “long”-limbed creature with “dagger-like” spines on its back settled onto a thin tree branch and fell asleep. But its night wouldn’t be ...