Zoo keepers are probing why a male Malayan tiger killed a four-year-old female tiger it had only just met, when they were brought together for breeding purposes in California.
Plants & Animals
Dec 23, 2013
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A new study by Anna Maria Niewiadomska and Robert Gifford, of The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, reveals that reticuloendotheliosis viruses (REVs), which originated in mammals, spread to birds as a result of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 27, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), revealed in a new study, for the first time, the presence of the pathogenic chytrid fungus ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 6, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Scientists from the University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory have helped to reintroduce a species of toad declared extinct in the wild to its native range-the world's first reintroduction of an ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 1, 2012
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Will the tiger go the way of the passenger pigeon or be saved from extinction like the American bison?
Ecology
Sep 5, 2012
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Yellowstone National Park has two of the last remaining large herds of pure-bred bison in North America, but moving them out of the park to reproduce has been tough with public concerns over their widespread exposure to disease.
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2012
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A team of Russian veterinary colleagues and health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo are collaborating to understand how distemper -- a virus afflicting domestic dogs and many wildlife species -- ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2011
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While thousands of species are threatened with extinction around the globe, efforts to save the Grand Cayman blue iguana represent a rarity in conservation: a chance for complete recovery, according to health experts from ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 18, 2011
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The Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo veterinarians, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program have ...
Ecology
May 10, 2011
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Message to New York's most-watched -- and feathered -- mom to be: happy Mother's Day!
Plants & Animals
May 8, 2011
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