Synopsis: 2.0.. agro: Livestock:

 In the last 20 years the forests of the upper headwaters of the Xingu have been cleared for cattle ranching

#Ambience Influences How Whisky Tastes A whisky sipped in a room smelling of fresh-cut grass with the sound of sheep baaing in the background tastes different from having the same drink in a sweet-smelling red room with piano music playing

A grassy room had a turf floor the sound of baaing sheep and the smell of freshly cut grass;

and poultry and decreasing the intake of sodium (salt) and empty calories from solid fats

#American Running of the Bulls Not Much of a Thrill (Op-Ed) Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United states (HSUS.

A decade ago I was on-site as an observer for the first American Running of the Bulls in a small town outside of Las vegas

and danger of the Pamplona Spain event where bulls run down the cobblestone streets and head into a fighting arena the American spectacle was an incredible snooze.

The promoters of the Nevada event released cattle from a pen. The animals trotted or walked down a dirt track as attention

It was an embarrassment to all the bulls comporting themselves with more dignity and smarts than the people South Park got it just right

when it broadcast this piece on the American version of the running of the bulls.

That said if the event gets too boring the promoters of bull running events planned for this year might try to increase the risk quotient

I expect it will be about as entertaining as people charging into a cow pasture. But whether it's boring

Pacelle's most recent Op-Ed was Butter-Cow Prank Does Nothing to Help the Cause of Animals.

This article was adapted from Walking of the Bulls which first appeared on the HSUS blog A Humane Nation.

Babylonian works could be found in Turkey Syria the Levant and Egypt as well as Mesopotamia. oebabylonian scribes were very much in demand at foreign courts...

and environmental problems swept over much of the Middle east felling cities in Turkey and the Levant and contributing to problems that would see the break up of Egypt.

and yellow bricks with alternating images of dragons and bulls carved in relief. Â A reconstruction of it that incorporates surviving materials is currently in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Vorderasiatisches Museum in Germany.

and the main gate in the larger inner wall of the city with a 48 meter-long (158 feet) passage was decorated with no fewer than 575 depictions of animals (according to calculations made by excavators) noting that these oepictures of bulls

#Ancient Humans Dined on Bacon from Weird, Spotted Pigs Ancient hunter-gatherers in Europe whose meat intake was limited once to wild game may have enjoyed bacon ham pork chops

and other tasty bites from pigs they owned starting about 7000 years ago researchers say.

The new findings suggest these hunter-gatherers had domesticated pigs about 500 years earlier than previously thought yielding new insights into the movements

or New Stone age farmers who migrated to Europe from the south between 5500 B c. and 4200 B c. owned domestic plants and animals such as sheep goats cattle and swine.

and did not have pigs sheep goats or cows all of which were introduced to Europe with incoming farmers in about 6000 B c. researcher Ben Krause-Kyora an archaeologist

now that the hunter-gathers possessed some of the farmers'domesticated pigs. The scientists analyzed the ancient DNA from the bones and teeth of 63 pigs in northern Germany from a Mesolithic site known as Ertebã¸lle and a number of Neolithic sites.

They found that as early as 4600 B c. the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers owned pigs that had both near-Eastern and European ancestry

which means they were domestic swine as opposed to wild boar. We address a longstanding debate in archaeology that has implications beyond northern Germany researcher Almut Nebel a molecular geneticist at Christian-Albrechts University told Livescience.

Our multidisciplinary approach can also be used to obtain information on cultural contact for example between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists for other areas of Europe and the world.

Genetic analysis revealed the domestic pigs had colorful coats and spots that likely would have seemed exotic and strange to the hunter-gatherers

and may have attracted them to the swine. Humans love novelty and though hunter-gatherers exploited wild boar it would have been hard not to be fascinated by the strange-looking spotted pigs owned by farmers living nearby researcher Greger Larson at Durham University

in England said in a statement. It should come as no surprise that the hunter-gatherers acquired some of the pigs eventually

but this study shows that they did very soon after the domestic pigs arrived in Northern europe.

Scientists are not sure whether the hunter-gatherers procured the pigs via trade or by capturing escaped animals.

Still given the close proximity of these two groups and how they occasionally exchanged artifacts the researchers suspect trade for pigs was a more likely scenario than hunting of escaped domestic pigs Krause-Kyora told Livescience.

The scientists detailed their findings in the Aug 27 issue of the journal Nature Communications. Follow Livescience@livescience Facebookâ & Google+.

How Peafowls Do it Peacocks and peahens ogether known as peafowls are world famous for the peacock's enormous flashy train

which it uses to woo females. But what else does the mating behavior of peafowls involve?

Outside of the breeding season peafowls roam around in small groups that typically consist of five or six peahens and one or two peacocks.

But during the five-month-long breeding season the birds'social organization completely changes said Jessica Yorzinski an evolutionary biologist at Purdue University in Lafayette Ind.

When a peahen enters the peacock's area he will direct his display at her

Recently Yorzinski and her colleagues discovered that peahens ignore most of a peacock's display train

The upper portion of the train on the other hand may help peahens spot peacocks across large distances or over dense foliage.

If the peahen accepts the peacock's advances she will crouch down on the ground.

The peacock will then perform a hoot dash where he rushes toward the peahen while making a really loud call.

Finally the peacock will climb onto the peahen's back and transfer sperm by pressing his cloaca (waste and reproductive orifice) against her cloaca.

Mating complete the pair departs ways to mate with other peafowls. Â Follow Joseph Castro on Twitter.

Those price spikes in turn are prompting increases in the retail prices of beef pork poultry and dairy products.

''However changes in soil conservation and land-use practices as well as crop and livestock management that minimize soil erosion could prevent the damaging dust storms that characterized the 1930s Dust bowl years.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) was miffed at California for imposing more humane standards on the treatment of livestock

which would make it more difficult for livestock producers in his home state to market their products there.

Also snuck into the bill are a couple of provisions that would allow big agricultural livestock operations to keep even basic information about their businesses even their location and phone numbers from public disclosure.

Nevertheless imposing a gag order on the EPA banning the disclosure of even basic information about huge livestock operations is an over-reaction.

whether thousands of pigs are being raised near their source of drinking water. These lumps of coal are bad enough on their own.

#Are Pigs as Smart as Dogs, and Does It Really Matter?(Op-Ed) Marc Bekoff emeritus professor at the University of Colorado Boulder is one of the world's pioneering cognitive ethologists a Guggenheim Fellow and cofounder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical

With the catchy title Pigs smart as dogs? Activists pose the question it attracted almost 2000 comments as of this writing.

but comparing dogs to cats or dogs to pigs says little of importance. I always stress that intelligence is a slippery concept

which to make the claim that dogs for example are emotionally more complex than pigs or other food animals.

Thus the claim that it's okay to slaughter pigs for example rather than dogs because dogs would suffer more is misleading and vacuous

and the second by Melanie Joy called Why We Love Dogs Eat Pigs and Wear Cows (Conari Press 2011).

This article appeared as Are Pigs as Smart as Dogs and Does It Really Matter?

#Are Pit Bulls Really Dangerous? Police in Nassau County N y. are searching door-to-door for two pit bulls that went on a bloody rampage attacking a teenage boy and three women during a 30-minute period Wednesday (Feb 13.

One literally went for my leg and the other was trying to jump on top of me but

But do pit bulls deserve their reputation as vicious attack dogs? An overwhelming amount of evidence suggests they do.

and Reconstructive Surgery found that almost 51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls almost 9 percent were from Rottweilers

In other words a whopping two-thirds of the hospital's dog-attack injuries involved just two breeds pit bulls and Rottweilers.

and Pathology revealed that pit bulls Rottweilers and German shepherds were responsible for the majority of fatal dog attacks in the state of Kentucky.

And a 2011 study from the Annals of Surgery revealed that attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity rates higher hospital charges

The authors of that 2011 study go on to say Strict regulation of pit bulls may substantially reduce the U s. mortality rates related to dog bites.

Pit bulls and the law Some states and cities have acted on the research: The state of Maryland has determined that pit bulls are inherently dangerous and all owners are liable for any injuries they cause according to the Baltimore sun. Even the U s army has acknowledged that pit bulls are high-risk dogs;

they are prohibited therefore in some military housing units. Pit bulls join several other breeds on the list of dogs that are recognized as more likely to attack

and cause significant injury: The Centeres for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed data and found the following breeds are implicated in a majority of dog-bite fatalities:

versus pure breeds injuries versus fatalities pit bulls consistently rank at the top of the list for attacks and by a wide margin.

Paying the price for pit bulls As a result of the overwhelming evidence against pit bulls home owners and landlords often must pay significantly higher insurance premiums

if they have a pit bull or other recognized bad dog breed on their property.

Dog bite Incidents Fans of pit bulls are quick to assert that a dog's propensity for attack depends in large part on its owner

and there's considerable evidence that owners of pit bulls and other high-risk dogs are themselves high-risk people.

and attacking large animals like wild boar for herding livestock and for pit fighting. There's a myth that pit bulls have locking jaws that seize up when biting.

Though pit bulls have strong jaws and like most dogs will hold onto their prey after biting it there is no evidence that a pit bull's jaws are anatomically different from those of other breeds.

Even fans of pit bulls acknowledge the breed is different from other dogs. I tell people right off the bat

if you want a dog-park-type dog a dog you can just run off-leash please do not get a pit bull Ami Ciontos founder

and president of the Atlanta Underdog Initiative a pit bull rescue group told CNN. com. I want to make sure that whomever

When Russ Kremer a fifth-generation hog farmer from Missouri was gored in the knee by one of his Yorkshire boars he figured it was a routine injury.

Research shows that people who work with livestock like Kremer are moreâ likely to carry antibiotic resistant bacteria on

Another recent study from Johns hopkins university published on the heels of the CDC report showed that anyone who lives near industrial livestock operations

or fields fertilized with pig manure is also at greater risk of getting infected by a superbug.

For decades scientists have been teasing out the link between the abuse of antibiotics on livestock farms and the rise of superbug infections in humans.

and the World health organization are speaking out against the abuse of antibiotics in the livestock industry.

Eighty percent of all antibiotics sold in the United states by weight are used by the livestock industry mostly for animals that aren't even sick.

Russ Kremer after his illness converted his conventional operation into an antibiotic-free livestock farm.

and Senate that would curb the abuse of antibiotics in livestock operations. Antibiotics are a precious resource.

At least 26 elephant carcasses including four calves were counted in and around the Dzanga Bai on Thursday (May 9) WWF officials said.

In the spring of 2012 20 adults returned from migration producing 22 chicks over the ensuing months.

Also the first chicks of the year hatched at Taroona and Healesville. Just possibly the wild population at Melaleuca can be recovered with the help of their cousins in captivity.

#Babies Abound at Penguin Colony Found by Poop A recent visit to a remote Antarctic emperor penguin colony found thousands of fuzzy penguin chicks meaning the colony is even bigger than previously thought.

The team counted the number of chicks demanding regurgitated meals from their parents to gauge the total colony size

What surprised me is that each group was 5 to 7 percent chicks. It means that it is a healthy rookery;

I didn't find more than five dead little chicks at the overwintering place Hubert told Livescience's Ouramazingplanet in an email interview from Antarctica.

Charming Chicks: Antarctica's Baby Penguins A December 2012 expedition from Princess Elisabeth station marked the first time humans saw this colony of flightless birds.

Lots of chicks This year's penguin count confirms the accuracy of the satellite monitoring Hubert said.

Other birds sighted during the trip include Adelie penguins and skuas a type of seabird that preys on penguin chicks.

After winter ends parents make trips to the sea to deliver meals to their chicks.

Pesky penguins Seeing the fuzzy penguin chicks demand a vomited-up meal was Hubert's favorite part of the few hours spent at the massive colony.

They are so cute and funny especially the chicks bothering the parents without interruption to try to get fed.

#Bison Could Be reintroduced to Alaska North america's largest land animal will roam the Alaskan wilderness once again

 Wood bison a subspecies of the more familiarâ plains bison once lived throughout Alaska

Several groups have been trying to reintroduce wood bison for more than a decade. Some Alaskans have rejected the idea of introducing an animal listed under the Endangered Species Act for fear that this might interfere with gas and oil development the Dispatch reported.

Under the new plan the Alaskan bison would be designated as a nonessential experimental population that isn't necessary to the survival of the species

Wood bison are larger than their plains cousins with adult bulls weighing up to 2000 pounds (900 kilograms) or more according to a statement from the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Now there are 10000 free-ranging wood bison in Canada including about 4500 in seven free-ranging disease-free herds the agency noted.

 Wood bison have already been introduced to Russia where scientists are trying to establish breeding populations of the animalsâ according to the Edmonton Journal.

Wood bison are the closest living relatives to the steppe bison which went extinct about 5000 years ago.

#Bizarre Egg-Burying Birds Hatch at Bronx Zoo Three maleo chicks have been hatched at the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Bronx Zoo in New york where keepers recreated the conditions of the birds

While most birds sit on their eggs to keep their unhatched young warm maleos bury their large eggs in underground nests letting heat from geothermal sources the sun

The chicks when they finally hatch are quite mature; on day one they can dig themselves out from under 3 feet (1 meter) of earth then start flying

For all their impressive features wild maleos are in sharp decline in their native home on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

Maleos at The bronx Zoo are provided with deep river sand which is heated electrically from below so that the birds can find a warm spot to bury their eggs.

The three maleo babies that have hatched just are healthy and being kept in an off-exhibit area of the zoo WCS officials said.

Maleos are mostly black in color with peach plumage on their stomach yellow facial skin a red-orange beak and a casque on top of their head.

The birds which belong to the megapode family are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Almost half of all megapode species are threatened with extinction Nancy Clum curator of ornithology at The bronx Zoo said in a statement.

The work we do with maleos both at the zoo and in the field can provide a model for conservation of other megapode species. Email Megan Gannon

or follow her@meganigannon. Follow Livescience@livescience Facebook & Google+.+Original article on Livescience. com m

Unfortunately however pandas must increasingly compete for their needed bamboo with people who use this plant as food for livestock an ingredient for medicines and raw material for musical instruments.

There's also the possibility that milk has been watered down or mixed with cow milk which is not healthy for the infant Keim said.

The effort required industrial farming cattle drives and tens of thousands of workers. No Martians.

Then he looked at the breeds of cattle found in ancient Egypt and how much meat one could get from each animal to figure out how many animals would be required to provide the protein.

He said the 10000 workers at the site he studied in Giza consumed 105 cattle and 368 sheep or goats every 10 days.

Herds big enough to supply that many animals would contain an estimated 21900 cattle and 54750 sheep or goats

Half came from cattle most of the rest from sheep and goats. How the animals got to Giza is controversial;

Redding thinks they came in long cattle drives. Other think they were shipped in on the river.

and took a census of the cattle goats and sheep and they reported back to the king's office so the bureaucrats knew exactly what was available

and where to provide the food the workers needed a complex system modern societies need computers to organize.

#Butter-Cow Prank Does Nothing to Help the Cause of Animals (Op-Ed) Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United states (HSUS.

or the quality of their lives hanging in the balance some fool (who claims to be an animal advocate) defaced the Butter Cow at the Iowa State Fair.

However the study did not test blood from cattle sheep and goats in the middle East so it's not clear

if the virus is circulating in these animals in this region as well the researchers said. The MERS virus has been found to grow in cells taken from bats the researchers said.

or livestock may be an intermediate source the researchers said. The study cannot prove that humans caught the virus from camels.

and Keep Michigan Wolves Protected four-fifths of the livestock killed by wolves in the western management unit (96 animals out of 120) come from this one farm.

Even though state law already allows the killing of individual wolves threatening livestock or pets the state senator from this region has shepherded two bills through the Michigan legislature to allow trophy hunting of gray wolves right after they were Gray wolf May Lose Endangered Species Status. There are only about 650 wolves in the entire state

and did not provide proper care for his cattle failing even to remove dead animals allowing their carcasses to attract predators.

Koski was paid even for the livestock losses he sustained pocketing $33000 of the $40000 paid out by the wildlife management unit.

A recent report by the United nations Food and agriculture organization (FAO) Tackling Climate Change Through Livestock revealed startling news. Animal agriculture with its 70 billion land animals accounts for 14.5

Around the world industrial factory farms now account for approximately two-thirds of egg and poultry-meat production and more than half of pig-meat production.

The majority of pregnant sows egg-laying hens and other farm animals are housed in barren crowded cages and crates barely larger than their bodies.

The eventual goal said William Gallus a meteorologist at Iowa State university is warn-on-forecast.

or half-hour of advanced warning Gallus told Livescience. Using tornado simulators Gallus and his colleagues are working on understanding how local topography affects the way a tornado might move

and strengthen. For example they've found that ridges cause tornadoes to deviate left as they climb up

or so away Gallus said causing damage far afield from the actual funnel cloud. 50 Amazing Tornado Facts Moore in particular has been hit by three violent tornadoes in less than 15 years:

but Gallus believes it's worth looking into the local landscape for possible influencing factors.

Gallus isn't the only researcher looking to get a hyper-local look at how tornadoes work.

but in Joplin doors and glass windows at either end of long halls were destroyed by debris creating a dangerous situation Gallus said.

Other animals like sheep and cattle can also acquire the parasite by ingesting the infected cat feces.

Some like methane are produced through agricultural practices including livestock manure management. Others like CO2 largely result from natural processes like respiration and from the burning of fossil fuels.

As the period ends dogs cats and pigs become commonplace. Other than a few birds that were classified as dinosaurs most notable the Titanis the dinosaurs were gone.

Bovids including cattle sheep goats antelope and gazelle flourish during this period. Cave lions Sabre-toothed cats cave bears giant deer woolly rhinoceroses and woolly mammoths were prevailing species of the Quaternary period.

Without the dinosaurs plant life had an opportunity to flourish during the Cenozoic era. Nearly every plant living today had its roots in the Cenozoic era.

Thriving populations of wolves deer lynx beaver eagles boar elk bears and other animals have been documented in the dense woodlands that now surround the silent plant.

Thousands of dead bloated pigs floating down the river that supplies Shanghai with its drinking water.

Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth Water pollution Thousands of dead pigs floating past Shanghai dramatic though they are may be the least of China's water pollution worries.

In January a chemical accident leaked benzene a known cancer-causing agent into a tributary of the Huangpu River (where the dead pigs were discovered.

Roosters Really Do Know What Time It Is The rooster's morning cock-a-doodle-doo is driven by an internal clock finds new research suggesting the male chickens really know the time of day.

The study detailed today (March 18) in the journal Current Biology found that roosters put under constant light conditions will still crow at the crack of dawn.

Because stimuli throughout the day such as car headlights will set off a rooster's crow at any time it was also possible that increasing light was the trigger for the cock's crows.

and his colleagues put 40 roosters in a setting with constant light then recorded when they crowed.

The roosters also crowed at other times of day and in response light and the crows of their fellow chickens but those behaviors were much stronger at daybreak.

In their new study Uno and his team tested the radiocarbon dating technique on the tusks of two elephants that died in 2006 and 2008 as well as elephant and hippo teeth monkey hair and oryx horn.

Elbroch said the cats'skittishness may also owe something to the presence of humans primarily sheep herders in the Patagonian grasslands.

or so as demand for wool and hence sheep has declined Elbroch said. A lot of meat Female cougars weigh about 85 pounds (39 kilograms)

></p><p>The oldest known wild bird in the United states has hatched a chick for the sixth year in a row.</

</p><p>The Laysan albatross named Wisdom thought to be at least 62 years old hatched a healthy-looking chick on Sunday (Feb 3) according to a statement from the U s. Department of the interior.

Wisdom and her young chick inhabit Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) which is famous for its Laysan albatross population.</

<a href=http://www. livescience. com/26868-oldest-bird-hatches-chick. html target=blank>Oldest Known Wild Bird Hatches Healthy Chick

Since the 1950s when researchers cloned a frog scientists have cloned dozens of animal species including mice cats sheep pigs and cows.

or cows to cloning people. For instance cloning an animal requires that researchers first remove the nucleus of an egg cell.

In one experiment Lanza and colleagues cloned a species of cattle called banteng and it was born at twice the size of a normal banteng.

It had to be said euthanized Lanza. The extremely high rate of death and the risk of developmental abnormities from cloning makes cloning people unethical Lanza said.

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