News tagged with pigs
Spectacular mammal rediscovered after 113 years -- first ever photographs taken
(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique and mysterious guinea-pig-sized rodent, not seen since 1898 despite several organized searches, bizarrely showed up at the front door of an ecolodge at a nature reserve in Colombia, ...
May 19, 2011 |
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'Bug Mac' and lovely 'grub': food of the future
Dutch student Walinka van Tol inspects the worm protruding from a half-eaten chocolate praline she's holding, steels herself with a shrug, then pops it into her mouth.
Jan 23, 2011 |
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One step closer to an artificial nerve cell
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University (Sweden) are well on the way to creating the first artificial nerve cell that can communicate specifically with nerve cells in the body using neurotransmitters. ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Pigs learn to understand mirrors
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of domesticated pigs has found that with just a little experimentation they can find food based only on a reflection in a mirror.
Oct 09, 2009 |
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Humans are reason for why domestic animals have strange and varied coat colors
(Physorg.com) -- Humans have actively changed the coats of domestic animals by cherry-picking rare genetic mutations, causing variations such as different colours, bands and spots, according to a new study. ...
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Jan 16, 2009 |
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Surprising approach could help rescue fragile ecosystems, halt cascades of extinctions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Feral pigs introduced to the Galapagos Archipelago shortly after Charles Darwin’s historical visit have damaged the ecosystem of Santiago Island, causing, it is believed, the extinction ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Chinese pigs 'direct descendants' of first domesticated breeds
Modern-day Chinese pigs are directly descended from ancient pigs which were the first to be domesticated in the region 10,000 years ago, a new archaeological and genetic study has revealed.
Apr 19, 2010 |
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Can you ask a pig if his glass is half full?
Babe may be the most famous sensitive pig in the world but new research from Newcastle University suggests he is by no means the only one.
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Discovery of 'bioelectric' arteries opens path to heart disease treatment
Bionic eyes and limbs made television's six million dollar man an icon, but new research suggests our existing biological structure already exhibits a valuable electrical property. Scientists have found that ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Novel 'antisense' therapies protect primates from lethal Ebola and Marburg viruses
New studies show that treatments targeting specific viral genes protected monkeys infected with deadly Ebola or Marburg viruses. Furthermore, the animals were protected even when therapeutics were administered one hour after ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 22, 2010 |
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World first: Chinese scientists create pig stem cells
Scientists have managed to induce cells from pigs to transform into pluripotent stem cells - cells that, like embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any type of cell in the body. It is the first time in the ...
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Ebola found in Philippine pigs for first time
(AP) -- A form of ebola virus has been detected in pigs for the first time, raising concerns it could mutate and threaten humans, scientists report.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Swine flu sweeping world at 'unprecedented speed': WHO
Swine flu has swept the globe at "unprecedented speed," the World Health Organisation said Friday, as a study warned the pandemic could tip the world into deflation and delay the economic recovery.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 17, 2009 |
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South Korean researchers say they cloned endangered cow
South Korean researchers said Wednesday they have successfully cloned a rare local species of cow in a government-funded project.
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Archaeologists find new evidence of animals being introduced to prehistoric Caribbean
An archaeological research team from North Carolina State University, the University of Washington and University of Florida has found one of the most diverse collections of prehistoric non-native animal remains ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Pig
Sus barbatus Sus bucculentus Sus cebifrons Sus celebensis Sus domestica †Sus falconeri †Sus hysudricus Sus oliveri Sus philippensis Sus scrofa †Sus strozzi Sus verrucosus
Pigs are a genus of even-toed ungulates within the family Suidae. The name hog most commonly refers to the domestic pig (Sus domestica) in everyday parlance, but technically encompasses several distinct species, including the Wild Boar. Swine is a non-declensive noun generally used to describe a herd of pigs rather than an individual, however it may often be implied in a pejorative manner to any living being expressing pig-like behaviour.
With around 2 billion on the planet, domestic pigs are also by far the most numerous pig species. Pigs are omnivores, and despite their reputation for gluttony, they are generally social and intelligent animals.
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