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Animals News tagged with study

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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University of the Basque Country Research Study on the European Mink, Mustela Lutreola
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, study, European mink, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 12 days ago - cordis.europa.eu
The PhD by University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) researcher, Maria Teresa Cabria Garrido, the title of which is Development and application of molecular markers for the study of the biology and the conservation of the European mink, Mustela lutreola
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The Secret Lives and Loves of Great White Sharks
Animals  (tags: Animal, study, Shark, white sharks, lives )

Katie
- 16 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
Great white sharks, much like humans, tend to stick to familiar turf, according to new research. Also like a lot of people, they like to hang out along the coastal waters of California.
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New Study Reveals First Ever Method to Genetically Identify All Eight Tuna Species
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tuna, study, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 18 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A new study has, for the first time revealed, a method to accurately distinguish between all eight tuna species from any kind of processed tissue using genetic sequencing.
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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."
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Bears 'Are Not Violent and Do Not Like Honey'
Animals  (tags: north american, study, wildlife, misconceptions, bears, dislike honey, families, conservation )

Simone
- 24 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Mr Rogers decided to abandon traditional scientific methods such as tracking their movements and mapping their DNA, to engage with a group of North America's black bears in an attempt to gain their trust.
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Whale-Sized Study in the Southern Hemisphere
Animals  (tags: animals, whales, study, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 34 days ago - wcs.org
After 15 years of research in the waters of the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, an international team of scientists has unveiled the largest genetic study of humpback whale populations ever conducted in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Whale-Sized Genetic Study Largest Ever For Southern Hemisphere Humpbacks
Animals  (tags: animals, study, whales, genetic study )

Katie
- 37 days ago - sciencedaily.com
After 15 years of research in the waters of the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, have unveiled the largest genetic study of humpback whale populations ever ......
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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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Humpback Whale Found 'Starved to Death' in the Thames
Animals  (tags: humpback whale, deceased, starved to death, study, investigation, sadness, thames river )

Simone
- 67 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
humpback whale has been found dead in the Thames, scientists said today. The 9.5m-long (28ft) juvenile male whale was first spotted in the River Thames on Thursday, but was not seen again until it was found dead on Saturday morning near Dartford Bridge.
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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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Pedigree Dogs Debate Hits Australia
Animals  (tags: pedigree dogs, inbreeding, suffering, illness, diseases, breeding to death, cruelty, study )

Simone
- 68 days ago - petstreet.co.uk
The film that caused such controversy over pedigree dogs recently has just been shown in Australia. The same footage of the boxers having epileptic fits and cavalier king charles spaniels writhing in pain from syringomyelia has shocked many Australia
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