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Animals News tagged with research

Rare Monkey Interbred With Baboons, Study Suggests
Animals  (tags: wildlife, animals, Monkey, baboons, Study, research )

Katie
- 2 days ago - livescience.com
One of Africa's rarest monkeys likely interbred with baboons in its past, new genetic research suggests. The large monkey called Rungwecebus kipunji, or kipunji for short, was only discovered in 2003, and in 2006 it was found to be an entirely............
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Birds Lose Color Vision in Twilight
Animals  (tags: Animal, Bird, science, research, study )

Katie
- 4 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Research at the Lund University Vision Group can now show that the color vision of birds stops working considerably earlier in the course of the day than was previously believed, in fact, in the twilight. Birds need between 5 and 20 times as much light...
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300-Pound Gorilla Voluntarily Monitors His Blood Pressure
Animals  (tags: animals, study, research, gorillas )

Katie
- 10 days ago - news.discovery.com
Imagine trying to monitor the blood pressure of a 300-pound gorilla. A new device, described in the following release from Georgia Institute of Technology Research News, makes that job a lot easier
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Great Whites Near Shore More Often Than Believed
Animals  (tags: great white shark, close to shore, research, interesting )

Lone
- 16 days ago - washingtonpost.com
For years, humans have thought of great white sharks wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore
3 comments
Fate of Cottonwood Pack Uncertain
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, wolf, cottonwood, pack, fate, yellowstone, montana, suffering, endangered, cruelty, extinction, killing, sadness, death, hunters, investigation, wildlife, protection, humans, environment, habitat, research, science, biology, study )

Tom
- 19 days ago - billingsgazette.com
Animal rights advocates and environmentalists have said the killing of the pack's two alpha wolves, as well as a collared female and pup, will result in the death of the pack's remaining wolves. The survivors include four adult gray males and two pups.
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Shooting of Collared Wolves Impacts Research
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, wolf, yellowstone, montana, suffering, endangered, cruelty, extinction, killing, sadness, death, hunters, investigation, wildlife, protection, humans, environment, habitat, research, science, biology, study )

Tom
- 19 days ago - billingsgazette.com
Yellowstone National Park's scientific research on wolves got caught in the crossfire of Montana's inaugural wolf season when hunters killed two collared wolves just north of the park earlier this month. "They (the wolves) got caught off guard."
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Robins Can See Earth's Magnetic Field
Animals  (tags: birds, robins, animal, research, report )

Katie
- 23 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The information, relayed to a specialised light-processing region of the brain called ''cluster N'', helps the robin find its way on migration flights. Experts know birds possess an internal magnetic compass, but there is disagreement about what form it..
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Leading Alzheimer's Researcher:Animal Experiments Will Not Help Humans
Animals  (tags: animals, research, monkeys, torture, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, suffering )

Cher
- 26 days ago - all-creatures.org
Because such monkey torture will not lead to improved human health, you don't need to be an animal rights advocate to wonder if an ethical cost-benefit analysis might conclude the ends just don't justify the means, especially since rapid advances in
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65,000 Cyber-Marchers Reach European Parliament as Animal Experiments Directive Is Debated
Animals  (tags: animals, research, protection, AnimalWelfare, virtual march, environment, AnimalCruelty, suffering )

Cher
- 29 days ago - hsus.org
On Wednesday, more than 65,000 people in cyberspace -- including comedian Ricky Gervais, actress Joanna Lumley and rock stars Brian May and Chrissie Hynde -- are asking European Union politicians in Strasbourg to defend better science without animal
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Tiny Dachshund Pioneers Spinal Injury Research
Animals  (tags: animals, dogs, pets, health, research )

Maria
- 42 days ago - petstreet.co.uk
A paralysed dog has been put back on his feet again, raising hopes of a treatment for humans with severe spinal injuries.<br /> Henry the miniature dachshund was unable to walk after discs ruptured in his spine last November.
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Loss Of Top Predators Causing Surge In Smaller Predators, Ecosystem Collapse
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, sharks, cougars, lions, predators, hunting, ranchers, livestock, sheep, science, investigation, research, humans, wildlife, wildanimals, extinction, environment, habitat, ecosystems, nature, coyotes, rodents, economy )

Tom
- 45 days ago - sciencedaily.com
The catastrophic decline around the world of "apex" predators such as wolves, cougars, lions or sharks has led to a huge increase in smaller "mesopredators" that are causing major economic and ecological disruptions, a new study concludes.
18 comments
Hyenas Cooperate, Problem-Solve Better Than Primates
Animals  (tags: animals, hyenas, primates, cooperation, behavior, wildanimals, wildlife, investigation, study, research )

Dee
- 53 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Spotted hyenas may not be smarter than chimpanzees, but a new study shows that they outperform the primates on cooperative problem-solving tests.
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Zoo Cats Get All Wet Over Fish | VIDEO!
Animals  (tags: zoo, fish, fishing cats, conservation, research, ecology )

Raffi
- 64 days ago - news.cincinnati.com
The newest cats on display at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden made a splash Thursday, but only after some coaxing from their mother. Three fishing cats - so named because they lunge into water to capture fish - were born June 30 at the zoo
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In a Shark's Tooth, a New Family Tree
Animals  (tags: Sharks, wildlife, Great white Sharks, research, science )

Dee
- 66 days ago - nytimes.com
"Like a locomotive with a mouth full of butcher knives." That is how a shark expert, Matt Hooper, described Carcharodon megalodon to the police chief in Peter Benchley's novel "Jaws."
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Evidence Points To Conscious 'Metacognition' In Some Nonhuman Animals
Animals  (tags: animals, dolphins, animal cognition, human conscious metacognition, wild animals, research, study, science, interesting )

Dee
- 67 days ago - sciencedaily.com
J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional parallels with human conscious metacognition -- that is,
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