When I first read the news that NASA was going to start experimenting on monkeys with radiation to study the effects of deep space travel, my heart sunk. As an anthropologist who has studied non-human primates I have seen up close the emotions, the
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]]> Two Penn State University researchers have carried out one of the first-ever analyses of the effects of global warming on endangered primates. This innovative work by Graduate Student Ruscena Wiederholt and Associate Professor of Biology Eric Post
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]]> The safe answer to how a lantern shark turns its luminescence on and off is: “Any way it wants.” Now researchers have looked into the belly of the beast and found that three hormones act as on-off switches for these glow-in-the-dark sharks.
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]]> The once secret life of a huge, recently discovered species of manta ray has been unveiled.
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]]> A huge increase in sightings of the elusive water vole, immortalised as Ratty in Wind in the Willows, has been recorded in a waterways wildlife survey.
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]]> We've heard of wildlife -- raccoons, mostly -- entering private homes using pet doors intended for dogs or cats. (Clearly, these are homes equipped with plain old pet doors rather than the considerably more high-tech Plexidor Pet Door.)
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]]> The story of Moremi was one of the wild cat tales Dicely and his wife Barbara shared as part of an educational tour to spread knowledge about endangered wild animals and how humans can play a role in their survival
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]]> The shocked look on her face says it all. This shopper has just seen for the first time the miserable lives endured by mother pigs in factory farms. Like most Australian consumers she had no idea that the pork, bacon and ham that she had been purchasing
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]]> More than 100 pet lovers gathered on November 5th for a candlelight vigil at the City of Memphis Animal Shelter. They were there to honor the memory of the innocent cats and dogs that died at the shelter because of mistreatment.
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]]> Take the polar bear pledge and support our efforts to save the polar bear and other endangered species.

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]]> November 9th to 14th, is the fourth annual Global Week of Action! People from salmon farming regions in Europe, Chile, the USA and Canada will be working to draw attention to the destructive effects of open net-cage salmon farming, and to demand change
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]]> Paw for Life Rescue would like to ensure that there is equal treatment for every person and animal; that discrimination against people and breeds is not a factor when public officials make decisions and that the law be applied equally to everyone.
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]]> The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been called America’s Serengeti -- one of the most important onshore denning habitats for America’s struggling polar bears and home to caribou, Arctic foxes and millions of migratory birds.
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]]> Right now, three of our programs are in urgent need of funds. We're asking you to choose where your donation is directed. Please give as generously as you can to help.
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]]> Susanna Hollesch recently wrote about the Protectora de Granada and how much help is needed for the poor shelters and refuges under their umbrella. One such refuge is Association Ladridos Vagabundos. This is an urgent appeal
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]]> Scientists call for new measures to protect the seabirds as experts warn one albatross drowns every five minutes after becoming entangled in fishing gear
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]]> A 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death and two other people were injured in an incident at the Daytona Beach BandShell early Sunday morning
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]]> SAVE the DINGO - the Faser Island dingo needs your help!

The native Australian dingo should be classified as a protected species.

It should be removed from noxious animal, pest and vermin lists.

Non-lethal and humane control measures should
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]]> A Land O' Lakes man ducked to look under his car, thinking his dog had crawled underneath.

But when Joseph Cannistra reached below just after midnight Sunday, he discovered a 5-foot gator, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
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]]> The meeting (CITES) is coming up in March 2010, and the United States has, for the fourth time, submitted a proposal to strip CITES protection for bobcats.

The same thick fur that makes bobcats so beautiful is also in high demand in the fur trade.
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]]> The only way to end elephant poaching is to stop any further ivory trade and eliminate the market for ivory once and for all. We can start by getting countries to support the call by six African countries—Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, and Sierra
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]]> Dereck and Beverly Joubert, who have spent 25 years documenting Africa's most iconic animals, have teamed with National Geographic on the Big Cats Initiative in an attempt to stop their extinction
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]]> There are currently over 4,000 bears on farms in Vietnam. Bear farming and the extraction of the bear’s bile is illegal in Vietnam, but due to the number of bears on farms it is not possible for the authorities to confiscate them all.

The Vietnamese
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]]> Polar bears are in decline, alright, but not everywhere. There is a case for keeping the hunt alive in Nunavut and the Inuit are making it
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]]> A $2,500 reward has been offered by local hunting clubs to anyone who gives information leading to the conviction of a poacher who shot and dumped a grizzly bear near Elkford.
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]]> New Zealand scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard by studying its main prey in the Himalayas, the bharal, or blue sheep.
A Nepali PhD student at Massey University, Achyut Aryal, and his professor are tramping
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]]> "He went to a home, went up on the porch, picked up a cat, took it to his pickup truck, threw it on the ground. The cat was meowing; he stomped its head, proceeded to disembowel it, took its liver and went fishing with it."
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]]> An animal rights group on Friday asked a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency to look into an owner's treatment of a circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport utility vehicle on a northwestern Oklahoma highway.
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]]> SeaWorld San Diego reports a bounty of babies in October
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]]> Animal pictures of the week: 6 November 2009
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]]> As an enormous lion lumbers onto the bonnet of the jeep and begins tearing up a piece of raw meat, you would expect to see fear etched on the faces of these tourists. But rather than showing any signs of terror, the group are smiling broadly – safe from
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]]> Cougars, also known as mountain lions or pumas, have been spotted in Minnesota. But there's disagreement over whether the big cats have moved in or are only passing through
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]]> Despite their fearsome fangs, male sabertoothed cats may have been less aggressive than many of their feline cousins, says a new study of male-female size differences in extinct big cats.

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]]> The first reintroduction of lynx in Spain, expected before the end of this year in the counties of Guadalmellato (Córdoba) and Guarrizas (Jaén), will be with copies taken from the wild and other captive born.
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]]> This is not a new photo. It was taken in 2006, but just pointed out to me by an animal-loving colleague. And it's such a great image, I thought it deserved a bit more play. What a fierce, fierce orange kitty! A little tiger, clearly. And he doesn't even
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]]> Keepers at the Alice Springs Desert Park are celebrating the birth of a baby bilby
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]]> At WildCare we are able to treat many of the injuries and illnesses that happen to individual animals. But what happens when they are well and ready to be released if there is nowhere for them to go? How do you go home when home is gone?
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]]> For many people, NASA represents cutting-edge science and grandiose achievements like sending a human to the moon. Unfortunately, future NASA plans are not so inspiring.
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]]> Panang, who is nearing the end of her two-year gestation period, was guided by her minder Andi Fries at the Tierpark Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich.
The elephant, who is due this month or next, has been pregnant twice before, but both calves were
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]]> The plight of a baby orangutan rescued from plantation workers in Borneo has exposed the high price these endangered primates are paying for the production of palm oil. The 2-3 year old female was found hogtied to a pole and had clearly been brutally
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]]> Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.
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]]> Without a doubt, the biggest and hottest wildlife issue concerns deer “management.” Biggest because well over 10 million deer were killed by hunters in 2006, plus another 1 million died in deer-vehicle accidents (DVAs) which also involve human fatalities
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]]> When Maj. Brian Dennis of the United States Marine Corps met a wild stray dog with shorn ears while serving in Iraq, he had noidea of the bond they'd form leading to seismic changes in both their lives.
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]]> The cat, which has recovered.

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]]> A duck waddling towards the water cross paths with this giant Shoebill, only for it to be lifted out of the way
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]]> Glacier National Park has opened its doors to a new, and very rare, resident: an albino black bear.
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]]> A Siberian tiger named Chaska died Tuesday following a routine operation, officials at the Zoo Sauvage in St-Félicien said
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]]> Oil palm expansion is threatening Borneo's rarest wild cats, reports a new study based on three years of fieldwork and more than 17,000 camera trap nights. Studying cats in five locations—each with different environments—in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo,
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]]> In the third such incident in six months, a 19-year-old lion died on Tuesday after a bloody fight with other lions at the rescue and rehabilitation centre attached to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park
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