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Focuses on the Extreme Survivors' Weekend at th the Bronx Zoo in New York City. Activities for visitors; Demonstration of wildlife survival skills and cartooning; Admission fees.

The article reports on the animals' efforts to survive in urban and rural parts of New York City and the important roles they play in the city's ecology. Also cited are the growing interests shown by city residents to animals like rats, dolphins, and coyotes, and the studies by researchers and citizen scientists on the population dynamics of animals like urban diamondback terrapins.

The article offers information on gulls. Topics covered include the parenting behavior of the bird, how they were able to adapt and survive in harsh conditions, specially those brought by heightened human-gull tensions, and how the closing of open landfills on Staten Island have led to the decline of gull populations.

The article discusses the study which examines how giant sea spiders manage to survive as the water they inhabit continue to get warmer.

The article focuses on the study conducted by biologist Alan Wilson which examines the survival behavior of wildebeests from a tough environment in northern Botswana.

The article provides an answer to a question if how do butterflies survive severe storms.

The article offers information on a study by scientists which revealed that the smaller animals need to evolve their bodies to permit them to strike faster than large animals.

The article discusses the use of nano-tags to present the pattern of baby sea loggerhead turtles going to the water to begin swimming frenzy after they hatch on the beach of Boavista in Cape Verde Island.

The article reports on the comment by biologists, who study the aftermath of the 2012 Hurricane Sandy in the U.S., that there is little proof that birds have suffered similar mass casualties observed in environmental disasters, such as the 2010 BP oil spill. Andrew Farnsworth, scientist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, offers his insights. It also presents the idea of Gary Langham, chief scientist of the National Audubon Society.

Everyone yawns, but no one knows why. We start when we are in the womb, and we do it through old age. Most vertebrate species, even birds and fishes, yawn too, or at least do something that looks very much like it. But its physiological mechanisms, its purpose and what survival value it might have remain a mystery. There is no shortage of theories -- a recent article in the journal Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews outlines many -- but a dearth of experimental proof that any of them is correct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One bright October morning, Fabiano Calleia, a researcher with the Federal University of Amazonas, was out in the lowland rainforest of Manaus, Brazil, tracking his usual group of eight pied tamarins as the small, dark monkeys with their dapper white shrugs grazed on the fruits of a fig tree. Suddenly the breakfast calm was shattered by the distinctive sound of a baby tamarin's cry -- a series of short, sharp whistles, like a boiling teapot doing Morse code. A male tamarin clambered up and down the tree, vainly trying to locate the sound's source. The calling continued. More monkeys became riled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the decision of Australian authorities to re-examine wildfire survival strategies due to the high death toll from wildfires across southeastern Australia. It is noted that many people waited too long and died as they tried to escape the wildfire. Authorities claim that the extreme weather conditions made catastrophe almost inevitable.

Presents several research related to animal behavior. Development of a video camera recorder to study the foraging behavior of penguins under water; Discovery of proteins produced by the gonads of a male tick and passed on to the female to encourage engorgement following mating; Establishment of a tiger reserve in Myanmar.

Reports on an incident in the United States in which a cat survived after being accidentally shut in a packing case for 27 days. Details of the incident.

States the after the release of captive bred lemurs in Madagascar they showed the right survival instinct. When the birds were released; Where they had been raised; Death of a female lemur called `Letitia'.