Researchers believe that the longer a female fly killed by a fungal infection dies, the greater the spread of these fungi, releasing more chemical signals

If you're in a vast expanse of desert, unless you can find water straight away, you'll be lucky to meet a camel. And it's not just the traditional image of the 'desert boat' that makes this animal so interesting - as a herbivore, they are almost never known to have natural predators in nature.

The local authorities in Japan subsequently conducted a DNA survey of all the monkeys in the zoo and confirmed that 57 of the 167 monkeys were hybrids of macaques crossed with a specific exotic creature, the rhesus macaque, accounting for about one-third of the monkey population