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1 month ago | 
earthtouchnews.com | Ethan Shaw |Ian Dickinson
Among the most titanic of predatory events possible here on Planet Earth—and one that’s only been witnessed a handful of times—played out off the southwestern coast of Western Australia on April 7: a “superpod” of orcas—likely more than 60 of them—taking down a pygmy blue whale.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
earthtouchnews.com | Ethan Shaw |Ian Dickinson
A daytime showdown between a leopard and a civet is anything but ordinary. In fact, it's downright crazy. The footage comes to us from Tamsyn du Toit who filmed the encounter recently on the western side of the Kruger National Park and shared her clip with Latest Sightings. An African civet – a raccoon-like omnivore in the same family as genets – is seen sauntering down a gravel road, seemingly unaware of a leopard slinking its way ever closer.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
earthtouchnews.com | Ethan Shaw |Ian Dickinson |Sarah Keartes
Reanimated corpses tend to be the stuff of fictional Halloween-y dread: horror stories about zombies and other sundry revenants, staggering about to usher in one brand of apocalypse or another.
As it happens, the dead can (sort of) come “alive” again for the good of the actual flesh-and-blood living. Researchers at New Mexico Tech (NMT), in the USA are experimenting with converting taxidermied birds into drones in the service of wildlife science and conservation.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
earthtouchnews.com | David Moscato |Ian Dickinson
Sebastian Stockmaier, University of Tennessee You can probably picture a vampire: Pale, sharply fanged undead sucker of blood, deterred only by sunlight, religious paraphernalia and garlic. They’re gnarly creatures, often favourite subjects for movies or books. Luckily, they’re only imaginary … or are they? There are real vampires in the world of bats. Out of over 1,400 currently described bat species, three are known to feed on blood exclusively.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
earthtouchnews.com | Ethan Shaw |Jason Goldman |Ian Dickinson
Third-biggest cat on Earth, muscular and low-slung, boasting one heck of a chomp, the jaguar reigns supreme atop the wild Neotropical food web. And while catching a glimpse of this burly beast across much of its forested range is no easy feat, the Pantanal –the “Kingdom of Waters,” world’s biggest freshwater tropical wetland and a wildlife hotspot par excellence – offers unparalleled opportunities to do so. Jaguars are among the undisputed superstars of a growing regional ecotourism industry here.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
earthtouchnews.com | Ian Dickinson
Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell, Harvard University In elephant family groups made up of related females and their young, it is clear that the animals produce vocal sounds to coordinate action. This happens when it’s time to leave a waterhole, for example. The matriarch or dominant female steps away from the waterhole and turns to the direction she intends to move in. Then she flaps her ears as she makes a short call referred to as the “let’s go” rumble.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
earthtouchnews.com | Ian Dickinson
This video of an African penguin commandeering a bodyboard and riding the swell off the Cape coast of South Africa is exactly the kind of wholesome content we need to see us into the weekend: The clip, captured earlier this year and shared on multiple platforms to the delight of thousands, shows a young penguin confidently clambering onto the back of a bodyboarder where it perched for a while before finding its way onto a board belonging to Aden Kleve, the owner of a Bodyboard South Africa, a...
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Ian Dickinson |Jason C. Hicks
On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its eagerly anticipated rulings in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce and explicitly overruled the doctrine of “Chevron deference,” creating the opportunity for a new wave of challenges to federal administrative activity. Chevron deference emerged in the Supreme Court’s 1984 opinion in Chevron v.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Ian Dickinson
The FTC’s recent campaign against private equity roll-ups hit a stumbling block on May 13 as the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas tossed out the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust claims against private equity firm Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe. The FTC filed its complaint in September 2023 against Welsh Carson and U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc., an anesthesia practice created by Welsh Carson to consolidate the Texas hospital anesthesia market.
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May 21, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Ian Dickinson |Lee Van Voorhis
The FTC’s recent campaign against private equity roll-ups hit a stumbling block on May 13 as the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas tossed out the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust claims against private equity firm Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe. The FTC filed its complaint in September 2023 against Welsh Carson and U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc., an anesthesia practice created by Welsh Carson to consolidate the Texas hospital anesthesia market.
