Some species of animals are changing their behavioral patterns in order to adapt to the rapid climate change, scientist believe. Examples are Canadian red squirrels. They are staring to reproduce earlier int he year, German blackcap birds are migrating and are arriving earlier at their nesting grounds, and northern American mosquitoes living in water-filled leaves of carnivorous plants which can also adjust their life cycles. Professor of biology at Oregon, William Bradshaw, said that global warming is going at a faster rate at more northerly latitudes which is causing longer growing seasons. "Over the part 40 years animal species and populations have been migrating, developing or reproducing earlier", says Professor Bradshaw.www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0609-02.htm
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