What’s lurking in and around the rainforest canopy? That’s a hard question to answer, especially in tall and dense forests. Traditional tracking methods, like camera traps, often miss out on elusive ...

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A research team from Munich has identified a previously unknown communication mechanism in harvestmen. Five closely related ...

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Friedrich, S., Schwager, M., Heß, M., Glaw, F. & Lehmann, T. Evidence for fluorescence-supported species recognition in syntopic harvestmen. Sci Rep 16, 2631 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026 ...

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