Expanding human populations and the demand for more and more land for agriculture and livestock herding are encroaching on snow leopard ranges even into protected areas.
Because of overhunting and poaching of their favorite prey the endangered Argali sheep the leopards are turning to domestic animals goats and sheep instead.
Feral dogs hunt livestock as well but since the snow leopard is protected a species farmers blame snow leopards for attacking livestock
and covers species such as the Siberian crane along with recent additions of the Saiga antelope the Bukhara deer and the Argali sheep.
Rattlesnake Sliders & Goat Penis: Photos of Exotic Food However one true tale of a Pleistocene repast comes from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Paleontologist Dale Guthrie
and colleagues who excavated a 36000-year-old steppe bison carcass called Blue Babe stewed
while prepping the bison for display. The meat was had tough and a strong aroma Guthrie wrote in the book Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe:
Sacramento Calf.;or Bozeman Mont. would pay for itself while reducing fuel loads slashing carbon emissions increasing water runoff to streams
Those foods usually include fish wild game and poultry as well as fruits vegetables and eggs. Some on the diet also eat nuts.
For the person who's not vegetarian they can get plenty of protein from the turkey.
And before pulling out all the stops in a gluten-free low-carb vegan Paleo Thanksgiving check in with your guests as well Spritzler said Some low-carbers may choose to only eat the turkey
1. Turkey troubles Nothing says Thanksgiving like cooking an obscenely large farm bird. Perhaps it's not surprising then that emergency rooms see a lot of fowl-related injuries on Turkey Day.
Deep-frying turkeys poses a major hazard. If the turkey is wet or partially frozen when it hits the oil the bird can catch fire
or even explode. We've had singed fires that hair and eyebrows and splash burns to the face said Dr. Robert Glatter an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New york. Avoiding Fried Turkey Disaster (Infographic) People also drop their turkeys causing second-degree burns to the tops
of their feet contusions and the occasional toe fracture Glatter told Livescience. Sometimes cooks slip on their turkeys
and hit their heads he added. 2. Carving catastrophes What happens when you mix slightly inebriated people with carving knives?
A lot of finger lacerations and thumb lacerations Glatter said. His advice? Don't carve under the influence.
Sometimes while people are carving the turkey they skewer themselves with pieces of turkey bone said Dr. Joseph Garber the director of emergency medicine at Syosset Hospital in New york. 3. Overindulging One of the most common problems around Thanksgiving as one might guess involves eating
And when people eat too quickly food can get lodged in their throats especially turkey
And turkey can carry salmonella so it's important to cook the bird thoroughly. Food allergies also rear their ugly heads at the holidays.
while wearing a helmet made out of a raw turkey the doctor said. But the unconventional headgear was actually helpful The turkey prevented him from suffering serious head injury Glatter said. 6. In-law anguish For some spending the holidays with family is a terrifying prospect.
On a November evening before Thanksgiving a shy young woman arrived at an emergency room in Bedford Ind. with a chief complaint of anxiety.
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The year before in Oregon 4000 of real pig blood spilled from a truck carting animal waste from a processing plant.
Live animals are used only to provide cells from which cell lines can be grown (though the blood of unborn cows is needed to culture most cells.
and the cuckoo chick hatches first grows faster and kicks the other chicks out of the nest.
The other chicks die and the cheeky cuckoo receives all of the adoptive mother's attention. 3. Bloodsucking ants Count Dracula isn't the only creature with a taste for bodily fluids:
The tiny endangered Adetomyrma ant from Madagascar drinks the fluids of its own young. After the queen ant gives birth to her larvae she
The holes that the elephants and the rhinos and the buffalos make that becomes the highway
Broadtails arrive across the border into Arizona right when their nectar resources are present but by the time they reach the central Rocky mountains
Animal protein is in seafood dairy products meat poultry and eggs. Vegetarian protein can be found in legumes soy vegetables and grains.
Go for seafood poultry with no skin lean veal cuts pork tenderloin lean beef cuts (such as the round or tenderloin) or 95-percent-lean hams (less than 3 grams of fat per ounce.
When taking into account food needed to feed livestock the world needs to increase crop production by 103 percent or 6000 trillion calories per year according to WRI
and emit fewer greenhouse gases than livestock according to the U n.'s FAO report. Although eating insects comes with an ick factor for many Westerners bugs are a part of the diet of about 2 billion people worldwide according to the report.
#What Are Fainting Goats? Ever felt so alarmed by a sneaky person that you thought you would pass out?
One breed of goats actually does fall down when startled. Although they're called fainting goats the animals don't actually fall unconscious.
They're just paralyzed for a few moments. Fainting goats are breed a of goats that have inherited myotonia an neurological condition that makes it difficult to relax the muscles.
Humans can have this neurological disorder as well but it usually only results in a stiff walk or difficulty getting up from a chair.
The condition makes fainting goats collapse on the ground with their bodies stiff and rigid.
and awkwardly walk away according to the International Fainting Goat Association (IFGA). You can tell these goats apart from other breeds due to their big conspicuous eyes;
their colors and coat textures vary like those of other goats. While the condition produces dramatic effects in the animals the neurological disorder doesn't hurt a domestic goat's health in the long run according to the IFGA.
Fainting goats if properly cared for will live from 10 to 18 years the same lifespan as most other breeds of goat.
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#What Are Greenhouse Gases? Behind the struggle to address global warming and climate change lies the increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.
A greenhouse gas is any gaseous compound in the atmosphere that is capable of absorbing infrared radiation thereby trapping and holding heat in the atmosphere.
Some greenhouse gases 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 like coal oil and gas.
and usually infect wild and domestic animals such as goats cattle and sheep. Anthrax outbreaks are fairly common worldwide and mostly affect agricultural workers.
It was used also by The british army during WORLD WAR II to weaken German livestock. More recently anthrax has been used in bioterrorism attacks in both Japan
and hides of animals processed for their meat (usually cows and pigs). But hooves consist of a different protein keratin
Molasses is used also in the production of ethyl alcohol and as an additive in livestock feed.
and subsisted on lean proteins (like fish venison and poultry) eggs fruits vegetables nuts and roots.
It refers to the meat of a young cow or calf as opposed to beef (also from French) an adult cow's meat.
Prized for its tenderness and delicate flavor veal has appeared in the cuisines of Italy France and Germany for centuries.
when Emperor Alexander Severus outlawed calf slaughter due to overconsumption. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
   The different varieties of veal depend on the calves'diet. Milk-fed calves (actually raised on a milklike supplement) produce a pale pink veal
while grain-fed calves produce redder fattier meat. Veal production has prompted strong criticism from animal welfare groups.
Traditional practices place calves in small (30 by 70 inch) individual crates that prevent much movement;
most calves aren't able to turn around. By depriving the animals of exercise veal producers aim to reduce muscle growth keeping the meat tender.
Calves spend only a few hours or days with their mothers before moving to crate confinement where they live for 12 to 23 weeks before being slaughtered.
In response to animal rights advocacy several countries and U s. states have outlawed the use of crates for veal production
Researchers fed 10 pregnant cows different amounts of flaxseed up to 7 percent of their daily diet to pinpoint the optimal amount needed to increase their milk s omega-3 content.
At six pounds of flaxseed daily the saturated fat in the cow s milk dropped 18 percent while polyunsaturated fatty acids and omega-3 levels rose drastically.
In fact the cows produced milk with 70 percent more omega-3 fatty acids than bovines that didn t eat flaxseed.
or corn so if this practice goes mainstream expect to pay a premium for any dairy products that come from flaxseed-eating cows.
 Grass-fed cows usually aren jacked t up with steroids and antibiotics. They also tend to get a bit more exercise than their grain-fed counterparts.
Healthier for the cow. Healthier for you.¢¢Â  Produce.  Buy local! There is some conflicting evidence about
and handling of downer pigs at federally inspected slaughter plants. This case made it to the U s. Supreme court
Today downer pigs still continue to be abused and slaughtered at federal meat processing facilities including in California.
Pacelle's most recent Op-Ed was American Running of the Bulls Not Much of a Thrill.
#Why Aren't Turkey Eggs Sold at the Grocery? As you pick up your turkey at the grocery store this week you might wonder why you never see the birds'eggs for sale.
Gobbling turkeys do lay eggs. But selling them in grocery stores would have its drawbacks. Turkey eggs small numbers and big size make them less practical for the poultry section.
Chickens start reproducing early and pump out more eggs than turkeys. The larger size of turkey eggs requires more room to nest
which takes up too much space in a coop. Economically meat from a grown turkey bird is much more valuable than an extra large fried egg.
Plus some breeds of turkey have retained a strong mothering instinct which is good for hatching chicks
but tough on farmers trying to collect the eggs. If you still want turkey eggs your best bet is to try a farm stand.
Or buy a live turkey and wait for it to lay an egg. Follow Life's Little Mysteries on Twitter@llmysteries. We're also on Facebook & Google
#Why Australia's Wildfires Are So Bad A dry warm winter set the stage for dozens of wildfires currently threatening populated areas in New south wales Australia.
The fires have destroyed hundreds of homes and sent smoke and ash into the air over Sydney.
The region which is now entering summer also experienced hundreds of fires this January during a catastrophic heat wave.
 The past three months have been among the driest 10 percent on record in New south wales (NSW) said Todd Lane a meteorologist at the University of Melbourne.
Animals such as cows on the other hand have specialized a stomach with four chambers to aid in the digestion of grass (a process called rumination.
With poor crops and possibly contaminated water sources they increasingly turned to cow's milk for sustenance making it a regular part of their diet.
#Why is Cow's Milk White? Milk is nature's buffet for babies providing all the nutrition a mammalian infant needs for early development outside the womb.
Cow's milk provides a range of nutrients for humans although intolerance to lactose a difficult-to-digest sugar is a common affliction.
Deer Joins Sheep Flock Even deer get lonely it seems. A young red deer in England has been accepted into a flock of about 100 sheep
and seems quite content living eating and sleeping with his new friends. Members of the National Trust (a British conservation group) discovered the young buck two weeks ago after the sheep had been moved onto a nature preserve northeast of London at Dunwich Heath according to the BBC.
I've been involved with sheep all my life but I've never seen deer interact with them Andrew Capell the flock's shepherd told the BBC.
They seem to have accepted him as one of their own. Animals have an uncanny ability to form friendships outside their own species. Polar bears
and dogs elephants and sheep even tigers and black bears have found kinship. The National Trust hopes the deer will rejoin his own herd
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#Wild Turkeys Are Back, A Century After Severe Decline In the early 1900s wild turkeys seemed to be on the road toward extinction as unregulated hunting
and widespread logging had wiped them out over much of their Range in the last few decades
and some new places where they hadn't been said previously wildlife biologist Thomas Hughes of the National Wild Turkey Federation an organization that has reintroduced the animals into the wild.
 In total about 7 million wild turkeys live in the United states; prior to 1500 an estimated 10 million turkeys existed he added.
In some places the growth of wild turkey populations has been so dramatic it has caused minor problems said Kelsey Sullivan a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in Bangor.
In Maine for example the birds have been known to damage strawberry and blueberry crops. They have also been found rummaging in the fodder of dairy cattle
which they can contaminate with their droppings Sullivan said. Â Gobble Gobble: 8 Terrific Turkey Facts Minor conflicts There have also been conflicts with homeowners particularly in areas that have recently been developed.
There have been problems from turkey droppings on the lawn to roosting on the roof to pecking the side of a car where they see their reflection to chasing the mailman from time to time Hughes told Livescience.
 But by and large these conflicts are isolated minor and Sullivan said. They are also not usually difficult to fix;
and raccoons are more likely than wild turkeys to destroy most crops according to work by researchers at Purdue University.
One 2005 study for example found that less than 0. 1 percent of the crop damage in Indiana is caused by wild turkeys.
But when the turkeys show up in the morning often in the same areas that have been damaged they get wrongly blamed said Duane Diefenbach a wildlife researcher at Pennsylvania State university.
Gobbler restocking Prior to the 1950s efforts to restock the wild turkeys mostly failed Hughes said That's
because researchers tried to use domestically bred wild turkeys which couldn't survive in nature.
By the 1950s biologists had developed a special type of cannon-propelled net that allowed scientists to catch groups of wild turkeys more effectively to translocate them to new areas he added.
Wild turkeys can live in forests and farmland but don't do well in dense thickets they need open spaces where males can display to females as a part of their breeding ritual Hughes said.
Hughes first got interested in wild turkeys when hunting them with his father as a child in northern Florida.
In most areas turkey-hunting season occurs in the spring and fall with catch limits designed to keep populations stable
In places where they've been installed he added sheep herders have come to rely on fences to protect their flock from predators inside the parks meaning they can help both people
But today the Mayan forest is threatened once again this time by economic activities such as cattle ranching and agriculture.
when cleared for cattle oil palm soy or pulp production. And this pressure is only increasing with population growth and global demand for agricultural commodities.
and trout species that spawn in the rivers there some of the 12 other owl species found in Primorye and mammals such as the endangered Siberian tiger Asiatic black bear and wild boar.
Slaght and his colleagues R. J. Gutiã rrez and Sergei Surmach will detail their findings in the October issue of the journal Oryx.
Of those 538 were newborn calves. Last year the mortality event was especially severe with a record-breaking 116 whale deaths 113 of them calves.
Whale Album: Giants of the Deep in 2012 we lost nearly one-third of all calves born at the Peninsula said Mariano Sironi scientific director of the Instituto de Conservacion de Ballenas in Argentina.
Southern right whales have their first calf when they are nine years old on average. This means that it won't be until a decade from
now that we will see a significant reduction in the number of calves born as all of the female calves that died will not be contributing any new offspring to the population Sironi who is also an advisor to the Southern Right whale Health Monitoring program added in a statement.
Sironi and colleague Vicky Rowntree who is co-director of the monitoring program have studied a strange phenomena that could be stressing southern right whales.
and cause large deep lesions particularly on the backs of young 2-6 week-old calves the researchers said in a statement from WCS.
As a result right whale mothers and their calves are expending much precious energy during a time of year
One serving is considered one cup of cow's milk soy milk or yogurt; one and a half ounces of a hard cheese like Swiss or cheddar;
#Early Life Pain May Affect The next Generation A mom's painful early life experiences might influence her offspring's sensitivity to pain according to a new study of lambs and ewes.
To find out if these experiences affect the animals they split a group of 20 ewes into three groups.
The third group of female sheep was left alone. After the sheep grew up and mated the researchers video-recorded each during lambing recording postural changes that might indicate pain number of uterine contractions
and tail-wagging which can also signal pain in farm animals. Generational effects? The scientists found that ewes with an early traumatic experience of tail-docking
or infection changed positions more often wagged their tails more and had more contractions than ewes left alone in their early days.
Exactly what these cues mean is difficult to interpret Mendl warned. It's possible that they could be showing a stronger response to the challenge of birth pain
Next the researchers tested the lambs of the 20 ewes in the study for their sensitivity to discomfort.
The lambs from ewes that had had an early-life infection responded more promptly than the lambs born to ewes in the other groups.
and the manure of animals like cows chickens and pigs the researchers said. It's not clear exactly
U s. Geological Survey (USGS) biologist Jarred Barr discovered the duckling among a brood of downy avocet chicks on July 2.
and chicks like it was another avocet Barr told Live Science. The blended family was foraging in wetlands at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve part of the massive South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project.
Barr found four avocet chicks and the mallard duckling each just a few days old plus two avocet parents.
and weigh the chicks. The researchers track the health of American avocets black-necked stilts and Forster's terns among other birds.
And it's not uncommon for avocets to adopt chicks from other avocets Hartman said.
as if they were their own chicks. But this is the first time the USGS biologists have discovered a duck-avocet adoption.
Typical meals for a wolverine include large game like caribou moose and mountain goats; smaller animals like ground squirrels and rodents;
and wildebeest and these animals could spread the bacteria leading to new rounds of infections researchers say.
About 95 percent of known anthrax infections in people are passed to humans through skin contact with livestock.
and 13 sites without carcasses to monitor the grazing activity of herbivores such as elephants wildebeest and zebras.
I grew up on a sheep and cattle ranch in Montana and Wyoming and while walking around pastures
Zebra wildebeest and springbok (a small gazelle) were up to four times more likely to graze at a potentially infectious site where a zebra had died within the last year than at a random grassland patch nearby.
and livestock Turner said. We know a lot about weather cues associated with anthrax outbreaks and there are a lot of hypotheses about how animal behavior may contribute to differences in anthrax incidence among species
African lions eat large animals that they find in the grasslands including antelopes zebras and wildebeest.
Asiatic lions eat large animals as well such as goats nilgai chital sambhar and buffaloes. They are known also to eat smaller animals.
(whose livestock the lions eat) as well as from trophy hunting and habitat loss. Asiatic lions are in a much more perilous position as human encroachment has reduced their habitat.
Sheep Sheep usually just follow the pack but in this case it seems the (back) pack followed the sheep.
A group of researchers at Swansea University in the United kingdom fitted sheep with backpacks containing GPS devices to develop a model for how a single sheepdog can shepherd a flock of more than 100 sheep BBC News reported.
The model could be used to make shepherd robots for crowd control or oil spill cleanup the researchers said.
But researchers at the University of California Davis and Duke university wanted to know what parts of the flashy males'display catch a female's or peahen's eye.
The team trained captive peahens to wear special backpacks that held equipment and a helmet with cameras (one to film what the bird was seeing
Recently the U s. Food and Drug Administration took steps to help phase out the use of certain antibiotics in livestock;
Most of a tiger's diet consists of large prey such as pigs deer rhinos or elephant calves.
A prudent diet consisted of raw and cooked vegetables salad fruit and berries nuts vegetable oils whole grain cereals poultry and water to drink.
I drove back into the subdivision after work Our neighborhood had the look of a freshly shorn sheep with all its cuts
Chupacabra means goat sucker in Spanish named so because it is said to drain the blood from animals such as goats chickens and other livestock.
The news and video footage of the small hairless caged animal went viral and left countless people scratching their heads wondering
because video of the creature broadcast on KAVU clearly shows the Ratcliffe chupacabra doesn't have the anatomical mouth features that would allow it to suck blood from goats or anything else.
and therefore physically prevents them from sucking the blood out of goats or anything else.
Put it in a pen with a goat or chicken and see if it attacks them
This is due primarily to lack of worldwide research and data on the species. Platypuses swim with their front feet and steer with their tails and back feet.
Nevertheless they could be used as a supplement for cattle feed. The synthetic materials in the diapers could aid the mushrooms'growth possibly by providing air pockets
And earlier this month Unilever announced it's going to work with the global egg industry to eliminate the killing of male chicks at hatcheries.
Since only female birds lay eggs the industry has no use for male chicks. Their solution?
Shortly after the chicks are born hatcheries throw them into grinders alive or suffocate them in plastic bags.
and eggs that would've hatched male chicks can be destroyed before the embryos develop. The announcements from Nestlã Unilever and Heinz among others including Burger king Safeway
Pretty landscape In the past scientists imagined that the now-vast Arctic tundra was once a brown grassland steppe that teemed with wooly mammoths rhinos and bison.
and fossilized poop or coprolites of eight Pleistocene beasts woolly mammoths rhinos bison and horses found in museums throughout the world.
The findings also raise questions about modern grazers such as bison Craine said. If the ancient beasts dined on forbs it's possible these wildflowerlike plants play a bigger role in the diet of modern bison as well he said.
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because they will kill livestock and pets. In cities coyotes will eat pet food or garbage.
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