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Protect Romanian Horses From Slaughter By Putting Them Back on Public Roads
Animals  (tags: healthcare, illness, diet, nutrition, prevention, safety, risks, research, treatment, study, health, disease, food, animalwelfare, animalcruelty, abused, abuse, animaladvocates, animalrights, cruelty, death, protection, suffering, sadness, slaughter )

Kelly
- 24 days ago - forcechange.com
The recent attention given to the horse meat mislabeling scandals within the European Union left many feeling that the back-door horse meat processing industry had been effectively wiped out.
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Almost 500 New Species Discovered at Senckenberg: Newly Discovered Species in 2011 and 2012
Animals  (tags: scientists, research, study, interesting, animals, wildlife, wildanimals, GoodNews )

Kevin
- 114 days ago - sciencedaily.com
In the last two years scientists at the Senckenberg research institutes have discovered and described almost 500 new species.
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Bonobos Buy Friends With Bananas
Animals  (tags: animals, animaladvocates, study, animal behavior, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, goodnews )

Cal
- 130 days ago - mnn.com
Sharing with strangers is not unique to humans, according to a new study by Duke University anthropologists, whether it's motivated by altruism or affability.
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Birdsong Study Pecks Theory That Music Is Uniquely Human
Animals  (tags: study, science, animals, wildlife, birds, music )

Kevin
- 140 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A bird listening to birdsong may experience some of the same emotions as a human listening to music, suggests a new study on white-throated sparrows, published in Frontiers of Evolutionary Neuroscience.
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Opposition to Wolf Hunt Seems Purely Emotional ( By: Peggy Callahan)
Animals  (tags: Wolves, Peggy Callahan, Commentary, Study, Wolf Hunt, She was on board that ordered the wolf h )

Roxie
- 179 days ago - startribune.com
Wolves in Minnesota have been extensively studied, both in captivity and in the wild. Topics from social ecology and behavior to physiology and pharmacology have been examined by scientists such as Todd Fuller, Dave Mech, Ralph Bailey and Rolf Peterson
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Do Animals Get Depressed?
Animals  (tags: animal depression, study, Neuroscience )

Jae
- 219 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Learning more about depression in animals could one day benefit humans, say scientists who believe that mammals share the same basic wiring in their brain for emotions as humans do. (Although not every scientist agrees with that premise.)
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New Species Photos: Giant Millipede, Horned Frog Among Borneo Finds
Animals  (tags: asia, discovery, study, science, environment, habitat, animals, wildlife )

Kevin
- 225 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Borneo horned frog was among thousands of species recorded during a recent biodiversity survey of Mount Kinabalu in northern Borneo
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PLEASE SIGN Criminal Complaint Against Hartford Hospital PLEASE SIGN
Animals  (tags: animalcruelty, alterintive methods, unnecessary, animalwelfare, cruelty, death, abuse, sadness, slaughter, society, suffering, killing, law, business, ethics, health, humans, crime, healthcare, illness, medicine, prevention, study, science )

Kelly
- 326 days ago - pcrm.org
Hartford Is Last in Connecticut to Use Live Animals for Trauma Training; Ninety-Eight Percent of U.S. Medical Schools Use Simulators
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Procreation Begets Problems For Pandas
Animals  (tags: environment, conservation, endangered, China, giant panda, risk, fertility, study, research, reproductive activities, difficulty, reintroduction to nature, wildlife, protection, habitat )

Naoko
- 408 days ago - japantimes.co.jp
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) still classifies giant pandas as endangered on it Red List, and China syas it is now considering a serious program of reintroduction.
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Up to 900 Tropical Bird Species Could 'Go Extinct'
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, birds, research, study, climate, climate-change, endangered, extinction, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, humans, habitat, environment, animals, animalwelfare )

Cal
- 442 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Up to 900 species of tropical land birds around the world could become extinct by 2100, researchers say.
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Wild Lions Live in Constant Fear
Animals  (tags: slaughter, protection, wild lions, investigation, study, wildlife, wildanimals, animalwelfare, animals, animaladvocates, humans, AnimalWelfare, cats )

Cal
- 467 days ago - enn.com
Lions have drastically changed the way they behave and perceive their environment because of new, numerous and deadly clashes with humans, according to a new study
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Severe Python Damage to Florida's Native Everglades Animals Documented in New Study
Animals  (tags: world, wildlife, study, scientists, society, science, research, world, news, interesting, humans, AnimalWelfare, animals, conservation, ethics, habitat, humans, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, society, law )

Britt
- 477 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2012) -- Precipitous declines in formerly common mammals in Everglades National Park in Florida have been linked to the presence of invasive Burmese pythons, according to a study by Michael Dorcas, an associate professor of biology a
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Scientists Tickle Animals to Find Laughter Clues
Animals  (tags: wildlife, wildanimals, investigation, humans, conservation, science, scientists, research, study, investigation, interesting, environment )

Xil
- 508 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Thought it was just humans that are ticklish? Think again - scientists are studying how animals respond to being tickled in a bid to shed light on how laughter evolved.
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Apes 'Gamble Like Humans By Calculating Odds'
Animals  (tags: animals, study, research, animal behaviour, apes, gambling, cognitive skills )

Pia
- 508 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Given the choice of a safe bet of a small piece of banana or a larger chunk of fruit hidden beneath one of a selection of shuffled cups, the apes chose to gamble more than 50 per cent of the time.
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