A few years ago, I had the opportunity to go on safari in southern Africa. One of the greatest thrills was going out at night looking for predators on the prowl: lions, leopards, hyenas.
Plants & Animals
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Unused coronavirus medication for humans will be made available to treat cats in Cyprus, where they have been dying in their thousands from feline COVID, officials announced Thursday.
Veterinary medicine
Aug 3, 2023
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Humans have trained domestic animals for thousands of years, to help with farming, transport, or hunting.
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2023
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The notion of "degrowth" is gaining traction among some politicians in Europe. It was given a platform recently at the European Parliament's "Beyond Growth" conference.
Economics & Business
Aug 1, 2023
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It is an early autumn morning. Three researchers from the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen venture into a Danish forest carrying plastic boxes with DNA air samplers. Wearing latex gloves and face masks, the ...
Ecology
Jul 27, 2023
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To most of us, a dog showing its teeth is a pretty clear signal of threat. In 1872, Charles Darwin first suggested animals showed emotions similar to ours in their body language, and we might be able to use this to better ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 27, 2023
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In response to climate change and environmental breakdown, degrowth has become one of the key concepts in political ecology and related disciplines. Degrowth provides a critique of the ideology of growth measured as Gross ...
Environment
Jul 27, 2023
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Researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea, have created a browsable epigenetic atlas for dogs called EpiC Dog (Epigenome Catalog of the Dog) to assist with future research efforts.
The World Health Organization said more than two dozen cats have been infected with bird flu across Poland, but no people appeared to have been sickened.
Veterinary medicine
Jul 17, 2023
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In an advance that will help scientists track coronavirus variants in wild and domesticated animals, researchers report they can now detect exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in any animal species. Most coronavirus antibody ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 6, 2023
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