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Animal Suicide Sheds Light on Human Behavior
Offbeat  (tags: studies, mystery, animal behaviour, animal suicide, humans )

Simone
- 3 days ago - news.discovery.com
Whether it's a grieving dog, a depressed horse or even a whale mysteriously beaching itself, there is a long history of animals behaving suicidally, behavior that can help explain human suicide, says newly published research. The idea that animals
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What Makes a Terrorist? Mindless Cruelty to Animals Is An Early Indication of Future Criminality
Offbeat  (tags: studies, aggression, animal abusers, animal cruelty, foundation, terrorists )

Simone
- 8 days ago - all-creatures.org
Cruelty to animals is a sign of latent violent criminality Human aggression is very different from animal aggression. In The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness Erich Fromm distinguishes between "biologically adaptive, self-serving aggression" and
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Why a Tiger Should Have the Feet of a Hippo
Offbeat  (tags: studies, animals feet, tigers, geometry, hippo. size of feet )

Simone
- 16 days ago - wired.co.uk
Its weight and the rules of geometry would dictate that a tiger should have the same size feet as a hippo. But it doesn't. A scientist from Taiwan has studied the footpads on a range of carnivores to discover how these "natural shoes" change in beasts of
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Bobcat and Bear Sightings Increase in Ohio
Offbeat  (tags: migration, relocating, studies, bears, bobcats, sightings, ohio )

Simone
- 16 days ago - wytv.com
Wildlife biologists with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources say confirmed sightings of bobcats and black bear are on the rise in the Buckeye State. According to the ODNR, the bobcat was at one time common throughout Ohio, but human activities
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Expensive Vet Bills 'Forcing Animal Lovers to Kill Pets'
Offbeat  (tags: pet owners, british vets, studies, euthanisation, vet bills, expensive, finances )

Simone
- 18 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
More than half of Britain's vets were forced to kill a pet cat or dog over the past five years because owners could not afford treatment, it said. Almost 90 per cent of vets across the country admitted they had experienced cases of treatment for
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Trunk Call: How Elephants Communicate Using a 'Secret Language'
Offbeat  (tags: elephants, communication, language, studies, trunks )

Simone
- 19 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Their trumpeting is loud enough to rattle every snake in the jungle. But it seems elephants have a secret quiet side too - at least to us humans. Scientists are trying to decode a series of deep growl calls, much of which are inaudible to our ears.
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What Do Wolves Mean for Colorado?
Offbeat  (tags: gray wolves, migration, studies, colorado, predators, conservation )

Simone
- 28 days ago - denverpost.com
Officially, wild wolves do not live in Colorado. The nearest established population is in Wyoming, where gray wolves were introduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995. But rumors of wolf sightings abound in Colorado, and in recent years, at least two
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RESULTS OF THE SIBERIAN TIGER PROJECT CAPTURE SEASON FALL 2009
Offbeat  (tags: wildlife conservation, radio collared, siberian tigers, studies, protection )

Simone
- 29 days ago - wcsrussia.org
In November 2009, our staff completed the joint WCS/SABZ Siberian Tiger Project fall capture season in the Sikhote-Alin Reserve. A very important method of studying the tiger population is radiotelemetry, i.e. radiotracking of tigers fitted with
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Elephants Can Walk and Run at the Same Time
Offbeat  (tags: studies, charging elephants, walking, running, brilliant )

Simone
- 29 days ago - mirror.co.uk
Humans are better than most animals at walking long distances because our "heel first" gait is 70% more efficient than stepping along on toes. But for speed, we cannot beat four-legged creatures - with charging elephants the real kings of the quicknes
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Jaguars Don't Live Here Anymore
Offbeat  (tags: usa, studies, jaguar, disappeared, living, countries )

Simone
- 48 days ago - nytimes.com
The debate on what to do about jaguars started in 1997, when, at the urging of many biologists (including me), the Fish and Wildlife Service put the jaguar on the United States endangered species list, because there had been occasional sightings of the
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Which College Majors Pay the Most? 25 Excellent Studies and Rankings
Offbeat  (tags: College, Studies, education, college rankings, college degree, College Majors )

Leslie
- 54 days ago - collegestats.org
Have you chosen your college major yet? If not, you might want to take a look at this list of twenty-five excellent studies and rankings for college majors and degrees.
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Are We Tracking a Big Cat or a Bunny?
Offbeat  (tags: mystery, fen tiger, big cat print, studies, tracks )

Simone
- 57 days ago - cambridge-news.co.uk
The Abominable Snowman, Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster and the beast that stalks the Fens are just some of the myths that have yet to be proved fact or fiction. The Fen Tiger was first reported in 1982 in Cottenham, and this week a paw print was
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Night Hunting Peregrine Falcon Caught on Camera in Derby- VIDEO
Offbeat  (tags: studies, night hunting, peregrine falcon, camera )

Simone
- 62 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project team have recorded what may be the first ever film showing conclusively that peregrine falcons use urban floodlighting to catch prey at night.
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A Love Affair With Panthers, for the Moment
Offbeat  (tags: florida panthers, extinction, studies, science, endangered )

Simone
- 67 days ago - nytimes.com
As David Onorato of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission carefully opened the giant refrigerator where the bodies were kept, I couldn't help myself. My heart raced. My muscles tensed. Every cheesy freezer horror scene from the movies and
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Interest in Ancient Books Could Restore Timbuktu
Offbeat  (tags: 14th century books, interesting, studies )

Lone
- 68 days ago - washingtonpost.com
-- From a dented metal trunk, Abdoul Wahim Abdarahim Tahar pulled out something sure to make a preservationist's heart race -- or break: a leather-bound book written by hand in the 14th century,
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