On a summer night in 2017, CHEN Zhanqi made a curious find in his lab in China’s Yunnan province. In an artificial nest, he spotted a juvenile jumping spider attached to its mother in a way that reminded him of a baby mammal sucking its mother’s teats. On closer inspection, the spider mom really seemed to be doting on her young, he says. “She had to invest so much in caring for the baby.”

Integration of individual and collective capabilities is called for to facilitate long-term, multi-disciplinary inventories of biodiversity in Belt and Road Countries, and to enhance capacity for undertaking biodiversity research and conservation, according to a recent report.

The Chinses Academy of Science (CAS) is to work more closely with Lao PDR to carry out cooperation in the fields of biodiversity research, natural resources conservation and ecosystem management, according to a recent report.