News tagged with lion
Memory of mum's voice remains strong for young sea lions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Young sea lions are able to recognise their mother's voices long after they've been weaned, a new Macquarie University study has found. The research provides rare evidence of the long-term ...
May 27, 2010 |
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Male antelopes trick females into extra sex opportunities
Scientists have caught male topi antelopes in the act of faking fear in front of females in heat as a way to improve their chances of having sex.
May 24, 2010 |
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Expanded hospital opens at Calif. aquarium
(AP) -- They don't cry, cough or run a fever, so how can you tell when a fish is sick?
May 21, 2010 |
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Scientists say the American lion is not a lion after all
(PhysOrg.com) -- There has been some debate over the last century or so about whether the extinct American lion, Panthera atrox, which dates from the Pleistocene, is related to present day African lions (Panthera le ...
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May 18, 2010 |
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Bald eagle diet shift enhances conservation
An unprecedented study of bald eagle diet, from about 20,000 to 30,000 years ago to the present, will provide wildlife managers with unique information for reintroducing Bald Eagles to the Channel Islands ...
May 03, 2010 |
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Starving sea lion pups wash up on Calif. beaches
(AP) -- Marine mammal experts say dozens of hungry and sick sea lion pups have washed up on Southern California beaches this winter and many have died at rescue centers.
Mar 12, 2010 |
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Most sea lions gone from Ore. coast
(AP) -- The thousands of California sea lions that showed up this winter off the central Oregon coast seem to have largely moved on.
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Where did SF Bay's sea lions go? Try Oregon Coast
(AP) -- Hundreds of sea lions that abruptly blew out of San Francisco Bay's Pier 39 last Thanksgiving have apparently found a new home at another tourist attraction - 500 miles north on the Oregon coast.
Jan 09, 2010 |
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Famous San Francisco sea lions leave in droves
(AP) -- Two mysteries surround a huge herd of sea lions that were hanging out on a pier in San Francisco Bay: Why did so many show up, and why did so many leave at once?
Dec 30, 2009 |
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Probing Question: What are wildlife corridors?
Imagine that an unknown force hacks your city into two chunks. Because of this new barrier, you can’t get from your home to your office or the grocery store. Suddenly, your access to critical resources is ...
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Why Israeli rodents are more cautious than Jordanian ones
A series of studies carried out at the University of Haifa have found that rodent, reptile and ant lion species behave differently on either side of the Israel-Jordan border. "The border line, which is only a demarcation ...
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas
Recording hundreds of thousands of individual uplinks from satellite transmitters fitted on penguins, albatrosses, sea lions, and other marine animals, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and BirdLife ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises
(AP) -- Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.
Nov 07, 2009 |
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Notorious 'man-eating' lions of Tsavo likely ate about 35 people -- not 135, scientists say
The legendary "man-eating lions of Tsavo" that terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya more than a century ago likely consumed about 35 people--far fewer than popular estimates of 135 victims, according to a new ...
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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Are tigers 'brainier' than lions?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A wide-ranging study of big cat skulls, led by Oxford University scientists, has shown that tigers have bigger brains, relative to their body size, than lions, leopards or jaguars.
Sep 03, 2009 |
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