Nate Rott
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And the study's authors warn that shifting breeding seasons could throw penguins out of sync with other parts of the environment, most concerningly other species they depend on for food.
Veronica is a 13-year-old Swiss brown cow living in Austria amidst a lot of biting horseflies.
To help relieve the itching, cognitive biologists from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna say she's figured out how to pick up sticks in her mouth and use them to scratch hard-to-reach places.
Over 70 trials with a broom, they found she used each end bristle and knob separately for different areas.
Similar, researcher Elise Auersperg says, to how chimpanzees employ multi-use tools.
Though, she adds, Veronica is fairly unique in that she's 13 years old and is kept as a pet.
Veronica is a 13-year-old Swiss brown cow living in Austria amidst a lot of biting horseflies.
To help relieve the itching, cognitive biologists from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna say she's figured out how to pick up sticks in her mouth and use them to scratch hard-to-reach places.
Over 70 trials with a broom, they found she used each end, bristle and knob, separately for different areas.
Similar, researcher Elise Auersperg says, to how chimpanzees employ multi-use tools.
Though, she adds, Veronica is fairly unique in that she's 13 years old and is kept as a pet.
There are two and a half million unique species on Earth that we humans have discovered and categorized.
But that number is constantly growing.
A new study published in the journal Science Advances looks at the history of species discovery and how it's changing.
And it finds that on average, humans are now discovering 17,000 new species every year.
Estimates range widely about how much unique life there is on Earth, from the low hundreds of millions of different species to the trillions.
The new study's authors say our ability to find new life will only increase with technological advancements like DNA analysis.