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Animals News tagged with technology

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

Dee
- 83 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--
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Bear Trackers Use GPS in Bid to Preserve the Animals
Animals  (tags: Bears, trackers, GPS, collar, Florida researchers', high-tech efforts, low-tech tool: day-old doughnuts, researchers, technology, habitat loss )

Rosemary
- 89 days ago - cnn.com
Researchers use the doughnuts and other stale pastries to bait traps for the bears. Once snared, the bears are tranquilized and then fitted with a GPS collar. Using cell phone technology, every 15 minutes the collar sends a text message that tells Cont..
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OUTRAGEOUS---Illegal Online Sales Endanger Cameroon Chimps
Animals  (tags: animalwelfare, animals, endangered, TECHNOLOGY, wildlife, wildanimals, protection )

Cal
- 103 days ago - theage.com.au
Advertisements on the Internet to woo buyers into taking "playful primates" from Cameroon into their homes have become one of the primary means of further threatening already endangered species.
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Sign Petition: Tell MillerCoors to Support Humane Research
Animals  (tags: animals, cruelty, death, suffering, experiments, testing, millercoors, charities, humane, research, technology, business, money, ethics )

Tom
- 201 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Animals in laboratories are often forced to endure early separation from their mothers, social isolation, prolonged captivity, sensory deprivation, repeated physical harm, and euthanasia when they are no longer considered useful to research.
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Rain Forest Reconnaissance
Animals  (tags: animals, rainforests, technology, tracking, Central America, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 243 days ago - nwf.org
In Central America, scientists are using new animal tracking technology to probe the secret lives of some of the most elusive tropical creatures.
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Polar Bears & Penguins "R" Us!
Animals  (tags: polar bears, penguins, extinction, earth, environment, science, research, tech, technology, animals, endangered species, wildlife, ecosystems, habitat destruction, climate, ClimateChange, climate-change, globalwarming, nature, world, AnimalWelfare, extinc )

SirRobert
- 308 days ago - volconvo.com
While climate change and global warming are being debated at the highest of respected scientific levels, the Polar Bears and Penguins are steadily losing ground in their fight for the 'right to life'. These are but a few of the canaries in our coal mine!
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Parachuting Dog Helped Win World War II
Animals  (tags: world war 11, parachuting dog, bravery, courage, technology, dogs )

Simone
- 583 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
The Allied airmen and women of World War II were certainly brave and skilled in battle, but even they couldn't win the war on their own. Plagued in the early, low-tech years of the war by dangerous afflictions such as altitude and decompression
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Saving Dolphins With Sonar
Animals  (tags: sonar, echolocation, cetaceans, dolphins, whales, nets, research, study, technology, protection )

John
- 626 days ago - popsci.com
Fortunately for whales and other cetaceans (dolphins, porpoises) who use echolocation, an entirely different sonar technology may now prove to save these animals' lives.sonar
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Great White Shark Stroked By Scientist: Photo - Telegraph
Animals  (tags: shark, technology, shark shields )

Ben
- 631 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The shark had been lured to the boat with chunks of bait as part of tests on a "Shark Shield'" - an electronic device designed to ward sharks away from surfers.
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Plane to Help Protect Hawaii Coral Reefs, Monk Seals, Green Sea Turtles and Other Wildlife
Animals  (tags: wildlife, sealife, GoodNews, habitat, technology, Hawaii, science, ocean )

Brad
- 808 days ago - boston.com
A kite-sized, unmanned airplane is joining the effort to protect endangered Hawaiian monk seals and coral reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Hunting Poachers Remotely
Animals  (tags: AnimalWelfare, conservation, poaching, protection, wildlife, technology )

Elena
- 935 days ago - technologyreview.com
The closest that park officials often get to catching poachers is stumbling across carcasses days or weeks after the culprits have fled the scene. Now a new surveillance system may help locate, track, and intercept poachers before they strike.
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