Courthouse News Service: Ship Noise Leaving Crabs Too Stressed to Hide From Danger
The ocean is getting too loud even for crabs. Normally, shore crabs (Carcinus maenas) can slowly change their shell color to blend in with the rocky shores in which they live, but recent findings show ...
Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Also called major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you feel, think and behave and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. You may have trouble doing normal day-to-day activities, and sometimes you may feel as if life isn't worth living.
Hypertension can be diagnosed by performing careful and repeated measures of the blood pressure. Blood pressure categories include normal blood pressure, defined as a systolic pressure less than 120, and a diastolic pressure less than 80. Elevated blood pressure is defined as a systolic pressure 120 to 129, and a diastolic pressure less than 80.
For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted from ...
(CN) – Human-caused undersea noise from ships stress out shore crabs, weakening their defenses and leaving them vulnerable to predators, according to research released Monday. A study published in the ...
Crab behavior suggestive of wound-tending may improve coral tolerance to heat waves. For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences, ...