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After years of research, experts have produced data that demonstrate unusual social nesting among hummingbirds.

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Fragile highland ecosystems showed low resilience to fire, which renders them more vulnerable to long-term degradation.

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Getty Images/iStockphoto Throughout the cloud forests of the Ecuadorian Andes, researchers hung nearly invisible “mist” nets between the trees hoping to catch an elusive “woolly” species ...