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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
- 47 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
- 81 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
- 105 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
- 116 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
- 146 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
- 147 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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Dogs Smarter Than Cats, Study Says
Animals  (tags: cats, dogs, animal intelligence, study, social animals, interesting )

Maria
- 236 days ago - globalanimal.org
Not that this is going to end any arguments between cat and dog lovers, but it does give the canine crowd a bit more ammunition! Read how dogs are, gulp, smarter than cats
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Study Finds Bird Thumb Is a Finger
Animals  (tags: thumb, Bird, Study, Finger )

Katie
- 263 days ago - abc.net.au
It is the kind of question that keeps biologists up at night: from an evolutionary standpoint, is the innermost digit of a bird's three-pronged wing more like a thumb or an index finger?
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STUDY: Humanity Knows Less Than 15 Percent of the World's Species
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, biodiversity, study, wildanimals, wildlife, protection, humans )

Cal
- 276 days ago - news.mongabay.com
The research implies that about 86 percent of the world's species have still yet to be described.
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Sexually Showy Male Birds Finish Early
Animals  (tags: wildlife, study )

Jae
- 282 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
That's because male bustards that perform longer courtship displays lose sperm quality faster than males that do not put on elaborate seduction shows, a new study suggests.
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In the Company of Whales
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, whales, science, study, wildanimals, wildlife, investigation, goodnews, animaladvocates, habitat, protection )

Cal
- 296 days ago - www2.macleans.ca
Sperm whales have distinct dialects, complex relationships and a set of traditions passed down between generations--what scientists are calling a 'multicultural civilization'
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Border Fences Pose Threats to Wildlife on US-Mexico Border, Study Shows
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, border fences, study, wildlife, wildanimals, habitat, environment, endangered, AnimalWelfare, protection, humans )

Cal
- 318 days ago - eurekalert.org
Current and proposed border fences pose significant threats to wildlife populations, with those animals living in border regions along the Texas Gulf and California coasts showing some of the greatest vulnerability, a new study from The University of Texa
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Rare Species Rebound At Himalaya Wildlife Sanctuary
Animals  (tags: UNESCO/IUCN, India, sanctuary, Manas Wildlife Sanctuary, animals, endangered, World Heritage Programme, study, conservation, ecotourism, protection, tigers, wildanimals, wildlife )

Rosemary
- 336 days ago - irishweatheronline.com
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary in the eastern Himalaya foothills of India has been removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger. A UNESCO/IUCN monitoring mission to the Sanctuary earlier this year noted the progress made so far to increase ...
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Ask the University of Mississippi Medical Center to End the Use of Pigs in Its Physiology Lab
Animals  (tags: live animals, pigs, University of Mississippi, medical, medicine, dean, chancellor, stop, experiments, physiology, study, abuse, animals, killed, awareness, cruelty, death, slaughter, killing, testing, ethics, humans, environment, protection, suffering )

Chaplain
- 336 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Please take a minute to ask University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine dean James E. Keeton, M.D., and University of Mississippi chancellor Daniel W. Jones, M.D., to stop the use of live pigs in the school's medical student physiology
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Are Wild Horses Native to the U.S.? A Federal Court Seeks the Answer
Animals  (tags: science, study, animals, animalwelfare, wild horses, humans, horses, origins or horses in the WEst, protection, investigation, environment, animaladvocates, conservation, AnimalWelfare, wildlife, wildanimals, humans, animaladvocates )

Cal
- 355 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Animal rights groups are pressing a case in federal court maintaining that wild horses roamed the West about 1.5 million years ago and didn't disappear until as recently as 7,600 years ago. More important, they say, a growing stockpile of DNA evidence sho
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