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Animals News tagged with science

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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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
- 20 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
- 20 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."
24 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
- 46 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.
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Idaho Man Illegally Shot At Wolf Pack From The Sky
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, wolf, idaho, aerial, shooting, endangered, extinction, suffering, killing, environment, wildlife, protection, humans, hunters, cruelty, death, science, politics, law, wilderness )

Tom
- 49 days ago - komonews.com
A shotgun-wielding motorized parachutist fired on a pack of wolves earlier this year from the eastern Idaho sky, forbidden even under a state permit that allows aerial gunning of foxes and coyotes. He claims he killed a wolf outfitted with a radio collar.
26 comments
From Science, Plenty of Cows But Little Profit
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, farm animals, science, environment, protection )

Cher
- 51 days ago - all-creatures.org
After it is collected from a bull at a stud farm, semen is mixed with a dye that sticks to DNA. A machine detects the extra dye sticking to X chromosomes and sorts the sperm. The sorted semen is frozen and sold to farmers who use it to inseminate their
5 comments
Milestone Animal Welfare Achievements at 7th World Congress on Alternatives to Animal Experiments
Animals  (tags: animaltesting, animalexperiments, REACH, science, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animalrights, animals, animalwelfare, AnimalCruelty, cruelty, ethics, law, protection )

Joanna
- 60 days ago - aimgroup.eu
The 7th World Congress on Alternatives to Animal Experiments organisers stating that due to scientific advancements in alternatives, animal testing of chemicals, cosmetics, pesticides and drugs will be "totally redundant within 20 years".
46 comments
Global Warming Benefits Small Fish
Animals  (tags: science, animals, wildanimals, habitat, investigation )

Cal
- 66 days ago - practicalfishkeeping.co.uk
One unintended consequence of global warming is a shrinking in size of the aquatic organisms, according to research published in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
1 comment
In a Shark's Tooth, a New Family Tree
Animals  (tags: Sharks, wildlife, Great white Sharks, research, science )

Dee
- 67 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
Barcoding Endangered Sea Turtles
Animals  (tags: science, turtles, barcoding, endangered, protection, wildlife, technology )

Dee
- 67 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Conservation geneticists who study sea turtles have a new tool to help track this highly migratory and endangered group of marine animals: DNA barcodes. DNA barcodes are short genetic sequences that efficiently distinguish species from each other--
4 comments
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,
20 comments
PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning: A Story of Youth Told By Age
Animals  (tags: Tesla, science, cat, electricity, childhood, inventor )

Raffi
- 90 days ago - pbs.org
The amazing story of Nikola Tesla and his childhood cat and inspiration, Macak as told by him to teacher Miss Fotitch "But I was the happiest of all, the fountain of my enjoyment being our magnificent Macak--the finest of all cats in the world.
9 comments
Wild Horse Sense
Animals  (tags: animals, wild, horses, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, environment, animalwelfare, habitat, animalrights, goodnews, contraception, wilderness, conservation, science, investigation, government, congress, politics )

Tom
- 117 days ago - latimes.com
Creating vast contained wildlife refuges with grassland for wild horses would make it easier to monitor the herds and administer birth control. Equine contraception may offer the best hope of humanely keeping the animals alive while protecting wilderness.
15 comments
Cats Know How to Control Humans, Study Finds
Animals  (tags: cats, communication, purrs, science, study, cries, feeding, control, animals )

Raffi
- 130 days ago - foxnews.com
If you've ever wondered who's in control, you or your cat, a new study points to the obvious. It's your cat. Household cats exercise this control with a certain type of urgent-sounding, high-pitched meow, according to the findings.
28 comments
Sign Petition: Stop the Construction of a Research Primate Breeding Facility in Puerto Rico
Animals  (tags: animals, abuse, primates, monkeys, research, testing, suffering, sadness, wildlife, cruelty, death, killing, research, science, breeding, injuries, stress, poison )

Tom
- 153 days ago - change.org
Cruelty and suffering involved in the international trade in primates for research has been well documented. Their common fate is to be used in toxicity testing which involves the forced ingestion, inhalation or injection of lethal poisonous chemicals.
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