Guadua bamboo, a species from Latin America, can absorb more than 30,000 liters of water in 1 hectare. It then deposits this back during the dry season. Some bamboo varieties grow up to 1 meter a ...
For a lowly grass, the bamboo is one of the most celebrated. People have waxed poetic and written aphorisms about it. Described, among other things, as “expressing usefulness through simplicity ...
A wildlife park in the Cotswolds has successfully bred one of the most endangered lemurs in Madagascar. The as-yet-unsexed and unnamed youngster was born to breeding male Raphael and female Bijou at ...
One of the most endangered species of lemur in Madagascar has given birth at Cotswold Wildlife Park. The greater bamboo lemur is classified as "critically endangered" by the International Union for ...