Scientists calculated the biomass of various groups of mammals, and humans’ impact weighs heavily on the planet. Here’s what else caught our attention last week in nature!
, an endangered African black hooded vulture, who flew the coop Tuesday when a falling tree ripped open a hole in his enclosure at the Oakland Zoo.
Unlike Flaco, though, Oliver is short on survival skills. The vulture isn’t a bird of prey and hasn’t been seen eating for days. Zoo officials remain hopeful that Oliver, who was hatched in captivity, will return to his comfort zone.Japan is testing the limits of the locavore movement with its crop of winter strawberries, so prized by Japanese consumers that individual berries sell for hundreds of dollars,On the one hand, the fruit is grown locally.
Vast quantities of the stuff were dumped by its manufacturer directly into the Pacific Ocean near Catalina Island back in the 1940s and ‘50s, and not only is the DDT not breaking down, it’s spreading.: “We still see original DDT on the seafloor from 50, 60, 70 years ago,” said UC Santa Barbara scientist David Valentine. “And what we’re seeing now is that there is DDT that has ended up all over the place, not just within this tight little circle on a map that we referred to as Dumpsite Two.
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