A group of nandus have found shade under some trees on the rolling fields. I'm on my way to visit the Hyacinth Macaw Project at the Refúgio Ecológico Caiman, some 250 kilometers west of the city of ...

Instead, these plants produce an identical copy of themselves. This type of reproduction is known as asexual reproduction. Plants can reproduce asexually in a number of different ways. Some plants ...

Imagine a gene that promotes sexual reproduction, such as by making it more likely that a plant will reproduce via sexually produced seeds as opposed to some asexual process (e.g., budding ...

Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. Despite theoretical expectations of balanced 1:1 sex ...

Wing colours of females vary from brown to blue, depending on the butterfly's location. Like in the hyacinth macaw, structural colour is responsible for the blue hue of the wings. Flavonoid pigments ...

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It is not a stroke of luck, but an invasive weed – water hyacinth – that is turning her hopes into reality. The 32-year-old’s family was dependent on farming and odd jobs for their livelihood.

10. Wild bird; 11. Hyacinth macaw; 12. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Bruno Henrique Grossi Carvalho, biologist (starting with shot 11/ending with shot 13): "The hyacinth macaw primarily feeds on two ...

"Nowhere else will you see so many hyacinth macaws, jaguars, swamp deer, anacondas, caymans, more than 300 fish species, 500 bird species, 2,500 species of water plants," he told The Guardian.