First, the good news. Footage from the 46 camera traps deployed by Fauna & Flora International (FFI) in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains is giving us a privileged insight into the lives of the Asian elephants that roam through ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 30, 2019
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Global warming is significantly reducing the volume of ice sheets—like the one covering Greenland—through melting or by shearing away blocks of ice that tumble into the ocean and become icebergs, a process known as calving.
Earth Sciences
Apr 11, 2019
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A UBC study published earlier this year found that dairy calves have distinct personality traits from a very young age. Researchers from the faculty of land and food systems tested calves for pessimism, fearfulness and sociability ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 05, 2018
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The approach, called Karyomapping, was originally designed to detect and screen for single gene and chromosome disorders simultaneously in human IVF embryos.
Biotechnology
Nov 27, 2018
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Contrary to earlier assumptions, the intestines of newborn calves are not sterile, but contain DNA from various bacteria. Bacteria or their fragments originating in the mother may be significant to the development of the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 05, 2018
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Identifying the breed of a new-born calf is not always easy, but Massey University research suggests their tongues may hold a clue.
Plants & Animals
Aug 28, 2018
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Young Southern white rhinos may produce four distinct calls in differing behavioral contexts, according to a study published March 7, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Sabrina Linn and Marina Scheumann from the ...
Ecology
Mar 07, 2018
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Some calves are inherently optimistic or pessimistic, just as humans are, a new University of British Columbia study has found.
Plants & Animals
Feb 08, 2018
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It is commonly accepted that lions are the only predators to pose a risk to giraffes on an individual basis but there has never been a study to investigate how the presence of lions impacts on the population as a whole.
Ecology
Jan 03, 2018
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Scientists say they fear shifting climate conditions are to blame for Vermont's struggling moose population.
Ecology
Dec 17, 2017
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