News tagged with wild ass
A boring life -- the Asiatic wild ass in the Mongolian Gobi
Wild asses are descendants of the original ancestors of the horse and the donkey. Unfortunately most species of wild ass are now in danger of extinction, largely as a direct result of human activities such as hunting and ...
May 03, 2011 |
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Ancient DNA identifies donkey ancestors, people who domesticated them
Genetic investigators say the partnership between people and the ancestors of today's donkeys was sealed not by monarchs trying to establish kingdoms, but by mobile, pastoral people who had to recruit animals to help them ...
Jul 28, 2010 |
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Three-toed horses reveal the secret of the Tibetan Plateau uplift
The Tibetan Plateau is the youngest and highest plateau on Earth, and its elevation reaches one-third of the height of the troposphere, with profound dynamic and thermal effects on atmospheric circulation ...
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Apr 24, 2012 |
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More than 7,500-year-old fish traps found in Russia
A team of international archeologists, led by the Spanish National Research Council, has documented a series of more than 7,500-year-old fish seines and traps near Moscow. The equipment found, among the oldest in Europe, ...
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Jan 25, 2012 |
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket -- or all your horses on one pasture
Winters in the Gobi desert are usually long and very cold but the winter of 2009-2010 was particularly severe. Millions of livestock died in Mongolia and the re-introduced wild Przewalski's horse population crashed dramatically. ...
Dec 29, 2011 |
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Catching camels in the Gobi
In Oct. 2011 Professor Chris Walzer and Dr. Gabrielle Stalder, veterinary scientists at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology at the Veterinary Science University, Vienna, successfully attached GPS satellite collars ...
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Endangered horse has ancient origins and high genetic diversity, new study finds
An endangered species of horse -- known as Przewalski's horse -- is much more distantly related to the domestic horse than researchers had previously hypothesized, reports a team of investigators led by Kateryna ...
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Hidden water holds the key to a changing desert
Passover, which celebrates the Israelites' flight from Egypt, ended Tuesday night. Yet after the exodus, they wandered the desert for 40 more years. There, Moses struck a rock with his staff and made water ...
Apr 27, 2011 |
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Identity of Pompeii's mystery horse revealed
(PhysOrg.com) -- The identity of a mysterious breed of "horse" which has baffled experts since its remains were uncovered at Pompeii has been resolved by a Cambridge University researcher – who realised ...
Nov 03, 2010 |
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DNA study sheds new light on horse evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient DNA retrieved from extinct horse species from around the world has challenged one of the textbook examples of evolution - the fossil record of the horse family Equidae over the past ...
Dec 10, 2009 |
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When fish farms are built along the coast, where does the waste go?
If you are a fish eater, it's likely that the salmon you had for dinner was not caught in the wild, but was instead grown in a mesh cage submerged in the open water of oceans or bays. Fish farming, a relatively inexpensive ...
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Zoo welcomes rare newborn Somali wild ass
The first Somali wild ass to be born at the St. Louis Zoo arrived earlier this month.
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Apr 27, 2008 |
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