{"id":24611,"date":"2023-02-08T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/?p=24611&preview=true&preview_id=24611"},"modified":"2023-02-13T10:16:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T09:16:45","slug":"news-in-brief-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/2023\/02\/08\/news-in-brief-6\/","title":{"rendered":"News in brief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
News in brief<\/h5>\n\n
Dolphin dementia <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n
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Striped dolphin <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

A European <\/em>Journal <\/em>of <\/em>Neuroscience <\/em>study on stranded dolphins has shown brain changes in aged dolphins similar to those seen with human ageing and Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The results could support the \u2018sick-leader\u2019 theory, by which a healthy pod of animals find themselves in shallow waters after following a group leader who may have become confused or lost. <\/p>\n\n

New start <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n
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Hampshire has pine martens <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

A breeding population of pine martens has been discovered in the New Forest after hidden cameras captured footage of pine martens, including young. Previously only seen in northern England, Scotland and parts of Wales, this is clear evidence of the mustelid\u2019s return to southern England. <\/p>\n\n

Wood store <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n
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UK woodlands store significantly more carbon than was thought, according to new research. Ecological <\/em>Solutions <\/em>and <\/em>Evidence <\/em>reports that novel 3D-scanning techniques applied to an Oxfordshire woodland almost doubled previous estimates. The finding has important implications for future carbon management. <\/p>\n\n

Oldest DNA <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n
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It\u2019s not quite Jurassic <\/em>Park, <\/em>but scientists have discovered pieces of 2-million-year-old DNA \u2013 twice as old as the previous record. Nature <\/em>reports that the fragments, found in northern Greenland, have allowed the scientists to build a picture of the ecosystem present at the time. <\/p>\n\n

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FACT. <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

All 150-plus species of pit viper boast a sixth sense: infrared detecting \u2018pits\u2019 in the head allow them to ambush their warm-blooded prey. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n

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PHOTOS: BLACKTHORN: OLIVER SMART; OSTRICH: JAMES WARWICK\/GETTY ; PINE MARTEN: MARTIN NOBLE; ROSEMAN ADAMS: JENNY DALTRY\/FFI AND RE:WILD; UNION ISLAND GECKO: JACOB BOCK\/FFI, WOLVES: SUMIO HARADA\/MINDEN\/NATUREPL.COM; BUSH TOMATO: JONATHAN HAYES; WOODLAND: DAVID BOOKER\/EYEEM\/GETTY, ILLUSTRATION: BETH ZAIKEN; TOAD: SAM HOBSON\/NATUREPL.COM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News in brief Dolphin dementia A European Journal of Neuroscience study on stranded dolphins has shown brain changes in aged dolphins similar to those seen with human ageing and Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The results could support the \u2018sick-leader\u2019 theory, by which a healthy pod of animals find themselves in shallow waters after following a group leader […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","purple_page_number":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_page_number":"","purple_seq_number":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_seq_number":"","purple_source_article":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_source_article":"","purple_source_issue":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_source_issue":"March-2023","purple_external_id":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_external_id":"March-2023-0231fa87-2500-4283-a845-ff12d81b8119","purple_issue_code":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_issue_code":"|0000087241||","purple_android_product":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_android_product":"com.im.wildlife.501","purple_ios_product":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_ios_product":"com.im.wildlife.501","purple_web_product":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_web_product":"","purple_publication_id":"","purple_migrated":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-02-10T09:53:04Z","apple_news_article-theme":"","apple_news_api_id":"c0750f95-f2ed-4948-982f-d729d3b5d07d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-02-13T09:16:52Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwHUPlfLtSUiYL9cp07XQfQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":true,"apple_news_is_preview":true,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_article_theme":"","apple_news_sections":"[]"},"categories":[25],"tags":[14],"apple_news_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"ella.copping-howard@immediate.co.uk","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/ella-copping-howardimmediate-co-uk\/"},"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2","apple_news_title":""},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"ella.copping-howard@immediate.co.uk","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/ella-copping-howardimmediate-co-uk\/"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"News in brief Dolphin dementia A European Journal of Neuroscience study on stranded dolphins has shown brain changes in aged dolphins similar to those seen with human ageing and Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The results could support the \u2018sick-leader\u2019 theory, by which a healthy pod of animals find themselves in shallow waters after following a group leader…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24611"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25068,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24611\/revisions\/25068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}