News tagged with food pellets

Feeding without the frenzy: Researchers engineer devices for Houston Zoo to feed giraffes, orangutans

Like their human cousins, orangutans enjoy food and don't mind working a little to get it. If the menu's right, giraffes are even less picky.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Neuroscience of instinct: How animals overcome fear to obtain food (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- When crossing a street, we look to the left and right for cars and stay put on the sidewalk if we see a car close enough and traveling fast enough to hit us before we're able to reach the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

The NutriSmart system would put RFIDs into your food for enhanced information

(PhysOrg.com) -- RFID, short for Radio Frequency ID, tags have found their way into a wide variety of applications. These pellets, which are often roughly the same size as a grain of rice, can help us to be ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 10 | with audio podcast weblog

THC exposure as adolescents linked to negative effects of THC as adults

In earlier studies, researchers at Louisiana State University had found that estrogen - or more precisely, having ovaries - made adult rats exposed for the first time to THC, the primary ingredient in marijuana and hashish, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0