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Animals News tagged with research

Great Whites Near Shore More Often Than Believed
Animals  (tags: great white shark, close to shore, research, interesting )

Lone
- 5 days ago - washingtonpost.com
For years, humans have thought of great white sharks wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore
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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
- 8 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
- 8 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."
23 comments
Robins Can See Earth's Magnetic Field
Animals  (tags: birds, robins, animal, research, report )

Katie
- 11 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
- 15 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
- 17 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
3 comments
Tiny Dachshund Pioneers Spinal Injury Research
Animals  (tags: animals, dogs, pets, health, research )

Maria
- 31 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.
4 comments
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
- 34 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
- 42 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.
4 comments
Zoo Cats Get All Wet Over Fish | VIDEO!
Animals  (tags: zoo, fish, fishing cats, conservation, research, ecology )

Raffi
- 52 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
16 comments
In a Shark's Tooth, a New Family Tree
Animals  (tags: Sharks, wildlife, Great white Sharks, research, science )

Dee
- 55 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."
1 comment
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
- 55 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,
20 comments
Research Animals: More? Or Less?
Animals  (tags: animals, research, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection )

Cher
- 66 days ago - aldf.org
How apropos that the same week I received an invitation to an upcoming national symposium on animals and toxicity testing to occur in Portland Oregon, I also saw a news story about how the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC), which is located
6 comments
Public Support to End Use of Animals in Research
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, research, environment, habitat, protection, AnimalCruelty )

Cher
- 68 days ago - rspca.org.uk
As RSPCA representatives join other animal welfare groups in Rome at an international congress on replacing animal experiments, the Society is ensuring that the message back home continues by sending a petition to the UK Government signed by over 68,000
3 comments
Wildlife Research
Animals  (tags: wildlife, wild animals, captured, radio collared, injured, caught, research )

Simone
- 80 days ago - stephenbodio.blogspot.com
I photographed this bison tangled up in its radio-collar in Yellowstone National Park a few weeks ago. Unfortunately these sights are becoming more common. There is no doubt that the use of radio-telemetry collars revolutionized wildlife research and
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