News tagged with exotic animals

Exotic manure is sure to lure the dung connoisseur

Although the preference of dung beetles for specific types and conditions of dung has been given substantial attention, little has been done to investigate their preference for dung from exotic mammals found on game farms ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brucellosis pathogen persists in Botswana buffalo

The term "bush meat" conjures up images of exotic animals hunted by men in traditional dress using handmade weapons. But in reality, bush meat is a lot closer to our North American venison, quail, and pheasant ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

British oceanographers find new species in Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team sailing on the vessel James Cook has been studying the unique habitat surrounding deep sea vents in the Indian Ocean far off the south-east coast of Africa. The vents, created ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

US police kill escaped lions, tigers and bears

Police in the US state of Ohio shot dead dozens of lions, tigers, bears and wolves in a frantic hunt after the owner of an exotic farm freed the dangerous animals and then killed himself.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 17




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Ticks can adapt to the Spain's climatic diversity

Carnivores in the Iberian Peninsula, such as the Iberian lynx, are under an increasingly serious threat: ticks that can adapt to changing climatic conditions and that can even survive in extremely arid environments. ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oldest US natural history museum offers rare peek

(AP) -- The Academy of Natural Sciences has never been one to brag. Its 225,000 annual visitors may associate the nation's oldest natural history museum solely with dioramas and dinosaurs, but behind the ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research group suggests Madagascar's unique animals arrived on rafts

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since the island of Madagascar was first visited by people, some two thousand years ago, there has been speculation about the unique plants and animals that live on the world’s ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Study supports theory of extraterrestrial impact

A 16-member international team of researchers that includes James Kennett, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has identified a nearly 13,000-year-old layer of thin, dark sediment buried in the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 38 | with audio podcast

Supreme Court rejects emergency carp measures

(AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to order emergency measures that might prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, despite a warning that the exotic fish pose a "dire threat" to the region's ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Fossilized pollen unlocks secrets of 2,500-year-old royal garden

Researchers have long been fascinated by the secrets of Ramat Rahel, located on a hilltop above modern-day Jerusalem. The site of the only known palace dating back to the kingdom of Biblical Judah, digs have ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Big trees face 'dire future'

Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future according to James Cook University’s Distinguished Professor William Laurance.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rare, once-royal turtle to be tracked in Cambodia

(AP) -- One of the world's most endangered turtles has been released into a Cambodian river with a satellite transmitter attached to its shell to track how it will navigate through commercial fishing grounds ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study establishes importance of tracking diseases associated with illegal wildlife trade

An article released today in PLoS ONE entitled, Zoonotic Viruses Associated with Illegally Imported Wildlife Products, from a collaborative study led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), identified ev ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Krawczynski group receives NASA grant to spy on black holes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Henric Krawczynski, PhD, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is a big-game hunter of the astrophysical variety — he hunts celestial beasts, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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