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Two brown bear populations in Spain have been isolated for the past 50 years
The situation of bears in the Iberian Peninsula is critical. Researchers from the University of Oviedo (UO) and the Superior Council of Scientific Research (SCSR) have performed a genetic identification based ...
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Female Cantabrian bears and their young do not hibernate
A team of Spanish scientists followed the brown bear population through the mountains of the Cantabrian Cordillera between 1998 and 2007 in order to find out about their hibernation habits, which had been ...
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Carnivorous mammals track fruit abundance
The scientific community already knew that many carnivores eat fruit, but had thought this was something purely anecdotal. Now researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) have shown that ...
Jun 14, 2010 |
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The quality of the tomato depends more on temperature than on natural light
A team from the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development (Neiker-Tecnalia, Spain) has questioned the generally held belief that the quality of tomatoes depends primarily on their exposure to natural light ...
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Sharks from deep waters of Cantabrian Sea are opportunist hunters
A team of Spanish researchers has studied the diet of three species of sharks living in the deep waters in the area of El Cachucho, the first Protected Marine Area in Spain, which is located in the Cantabrian ...
Mar 17, 2010 |
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The largest bat in Europe inhabited northeastern Spain more than 10,000 years ago
Spanish researchers have confirmed that the largest bat in Europe, Nyctalus lasiopterus, was present in north-eastern Spain during the Late Pleistocene (between 120,000 and 10,000 years ago). The Greater Noctul ...
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Oct 29, 2009 |
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Transhumance helps vulture conservation
Researchers from the University of Segovia and the University of León have shown for the first time the close space-time relationship between the presence of the griffon vulture and transhumant sheep ...
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Bears not sleeping during warm winter
Scientists, calling it another sign of climate change, say European brown bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain.
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Dec 22, 2006 |
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