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Canine Rental on Campus
Offbeat  (tags: students, study, canine, dogs, rentals, campus, animal welfare )

Simone
- 8 days ago - animalwelfare.change.org
Bringing dogs to college campuses during finals is a great idea -- dogs are known stress relievers, finals are known stress inducers. But nothing ruins a perfectly good idea like a puppy rental company. I thought the whole pet rental concept was
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The Gruesome Power of Raptor Talons
Offbeat  (tags: Animal, Raptor Talons, claws, Study )

Katie
- 20 days ago - wired.com
The most thorough study to date of raptor talons reveals their feet to be extraordinarily specialized hunting tools, perfectly suited to their gruesomely amazing killing strategies.
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Where the Wild Things Were: How Conservation Efforts Are Failing
Offbeat  (tags: foreign affairs, essay, where the wild things were, study, conservation, wild animals )

Simone
- 23 days ago - innovations-report.de
In the essay, "Where the Wild Things Were," currently appearing in Foreign Affairs, Dr. Steven Sanderson, President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, asserts the world's political institutions have failed the planet but "realism cannot turn in
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Tiny Dinosaur Lived Among Giants
Offbeat  (tags: animals, dinosaur, smallest, study )

Katie
- 59 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
This diminutive dinosaur is, however, now North America's smallest known dinosaur. The 150-million-year-old creature is also the world's smallest known ornithischian dinosaur, a group that included horned, duck-billed and armored dinosaurs.......
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Cat and Dog Combination Nothing to Sneeze at
Offbeat  (tags: humans, allergies, dogs, cats, study, living together )

Simone
- 96 days ago - stuff.co.nz
Trying to decide whether a dog or cat will protect you from allergies? New research says you should live with both. A team of New Zealand researchers who tracked more than 1000 people over 30 years found those who lived with dogs and cats for
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Bad Hair Day? Dogs Can Blame Genes
Offbeat  (tags: genetics, study, bad hair days, dogs, genes, different, unusual )

Simone
- 112 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au
HOWEVER much their owners may crimp or comb them, in the end a dog's coat - curly, shaggy, wavy or smooth - is controlled by just three genes. What's more, all the tiny variations of those genes -- which mix and match to create the distinctive coats
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Dogs and Owners: A Family Resemblance- SLIDESHOW
Offbeat  (tags: dogs, owners, look alike, similar features, study, slideshow )

Simone
- 128 days ago - well.blogs.nytimes.com
Do you look like your dog? That's the question we asked readers following this week's "Really?" column in Science Times, which explored the claim that dogs and owners often look alike. Hundreds of readers submitted photos of themselves and their
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Rooks Show There May Be Some Truth to Aesop's Fable 'The Crow and the Pitcher'
Offbeat  (tags: rooks, clever birds, study, aesop fable, interesting )

Simone
- 133 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
New research shows not only that rooks, crow-like members of the corvid family of birds, not only have impressive reasoning skills, it also shows that one of Aesop's fables may not be just a story after all. In the well-known fable in question, "The
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Molly-Coddled? The Human Dogs
Offbeat  (tags: dogs, human names, study, survey, interesting, family members )

Simone
- 144 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Dogs are increasingly being given human names as traditional ones such as Fido, Patch and Rover decline in popularity, a survey reveals. 'It's clear that more and more people are thinking of their dogs as another member of the family, rather than just
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Study Suggests Global Warming Bad News for Bigfoot
Offbeat  (tags: bigfoot, study, global warming, habitat, mystery, sightings )

Simone
- 146 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Whatever you want to call the legendary North American biped, it is likely the elusive beast will lose a portion of its existing habitat in the coastal and lowland regions of the northwestern United States as the climate warms. The
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Homing Pigeons Have Built in 'Satnav' Using Earth's Magnetic Field
Offbeat  (tags: pigeons, homing pigeons, study, researchers, magnetic field )

Simone
- 178 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Scientists have suspected for years that birds possess the ability to use the Earth's magnetic field for their navigation, although it has never been proved beyond doubt. Now researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand believe they
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Can Pets Laugh - Apparently Yes.
Offbeat  (tags: pets, study, animals, laughter, happiness )

Simone
- 195 days ago - petstreet.co.uk
Some research has come out of the University of Portsmouth that says that its not just humans who can laugh but other animals too, like chimps, dogs and rats. So do your pets laugh when they are being tickled or are having fun? A scientist called
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100 Professors You Should Follow and Learn From on Twitter
Offbeat  (tags: Twitter, Education, Professor, Learning, Study )

Jollygirl
- 200 days ago - associatedegree.org
By following professors and other educators, you can get learning straight from the source without even having to step into a classroom. Take look at 100 of the most valuable professors active on Twitter today.
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Rook With a Hook Proves Bird Brains Are the Equal of Monkeys'
Offbeat  (tags: british rook raven, bird, intelligence, study, skills )

Simone
- 206 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
It wouldn't win any beauty contest and its raucous caw is hardly easy on the ear. But when it comes to brains, the great British rook stands alone. In tests, four of the birds displayed the astonishing ability to devise tools to achieve a task.
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6 Old Wives' Tales Busted!--Wise Answers to Old Wives' Tales
Offbeat  (tags: safety, society, study, treatment, prevention, women, research, interesting, healthcare, health, environment, ethics, food, Body-Mind-Spirit, culture, unusual, off-beat, bizarre, odd, culture )

Suzybell
- 243 days ago - prevention.com
Can cracking your knuckles cause arthritis? Does reading in low light hurt your eyes? When you drop food on the floor, can you eat it if you follow the "5-second rule?" We asked the experts to give us the facts behind the most popular (and persistent) he
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