leg of this year's Red Bull Air Race World Championship. Reaching speeds of up to 250 mph (400 km h) the planes'pilots are accomplished aerobatics experts from around the world.
Whoever wins the race will be aided by advanced light aviation engineering according to Mike Mangold an American aerobatics pilot who won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship twice
Air racing fans can watch a full-length broadcast of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship from the Texas Motor Speedway on Sept. 15 at 7: 30 pm ET
UAV developers might even conceive of a squadron of drones with heat-sensing cameras flying across the vast plains of Central asia's Ustyurt Plateau searching for signs of saiga-antelope poachers.
See Newly Hatched Osprey Chicks on Live'Critter Cam'For all you bird lovers out there you can watch a set of newly hatched osprey chicks ruffle their tiny feathers on a live webcam.
Nearly 5 million people have tuned in to the explore. org critter cam located on Hog Island in Bremen Maine to watch some of the first chicks of the season hatch.
Two chicks have hatched already and a third is expected to emerge any day. See livestream of the newly-hatched osprey chicks The Hog Island ospreys typically spend their winter in South america.
The lovebirds returned to Maine in late April and performed their courtship rituals. Steve gathered sticks and soft bark to line the nest
The eggs and chicks are almost never left alone including at night. About 50 days after they hatch chicks will start exercising their wings
and will practice flying from the nest. In early September they will launch on a solo journey along the Atlantic Flyway from Maine to South america via the Caribbean.
Over the past 13 years dozens of cinnamon-brown chicks have been raised in captivity to be released into the wild
They're matching some chicks with adult bird parents that can hopefully step in where humans are failing.
When they hatch the chicks are raised by humans cloaked in white costumes with a beaked puppet on their hands to teach the birds to eat and drink.
The chicks are always in sight of actual adult whooping cranes Biologists just don't want the birds to be handled by people in street clothes Olsen told Live Science.
When the chicks are about 6 months old they are released in Wisconsin. Then comes the most critical time in their life:
If the chicks don't experience that first migration they won't ever learn to migrate. We have great success in doing this in that the birds survive Olsen said.
Captive-raised chicks that are released into the wild seem to thrive; they even pair off with mates
and raising chicks and we don't know how much of the component of raising chicks is learned innate
That's a big problem because for whooping cranes to become totally self-sustaining in the wild they'll need to raise wild-born chicks themselves.
and feed the chicks after they hatch. At the end of September four parent-reared chicks were released at Necedah
along with seven costumed-reared chicks that are intended to join the Eastern Migratory Flock. These young birds were put in predator-resistant pens at Necedah near other free-ranging whooping cranes including pairs of adults without chicks of their own.
These whooping-crane couples tend to adopt other chicks and when it comes time to migrate the adults will lead the fledglings southward.
Last year two parent-reared birds successfully migrated Olsen said. Most likely the chicks raised by adoptive parents will pair up with birds raised by humans.
It's hoped that the adopted chicks will be able to pass along good parenting habits.
The scientists will have to wait a few years before they know whether they've been successful as whooping cranes don't typically start nesting until they're about 3 years old.
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when converting vegetable mass into protein as pigs and five times as efficient as cattle. In addition the husbandry associated with raising grasshoppers is compared relatively simple to that needed for cattle chickens
or hogs and their rapid reproduction rate and short life cycle allows a stable and continuous harvest.
Finally it would be much easier to transport insects to Mars than to send large animals.
and Manx and the Britonic group comprising Welsh Breton and Cornish#wrote the late professor Dá
ithã Ãhãã¡in in his book The Celts: A History#(The Collins Press 2002. He notes that Manx
and Cornish originally died out but have now been revived. The relationship between modern-day Celts and their ancient forbearers is a contentious issue that scholars have different opinions about.
They lived as far east as modern-day Turkey and even served as mercenaries for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
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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.</
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As for thrills nothing beat taking icy dunks on hot afternoons in a big windmill-fed tank where a rancher stored water for his cattle.
Manure from horses cows pigs or chickens has the nitrogen phosphorus and other goodies that plants need.
#and beef cattle raisers in Paraguay Kenya and Tanzania suffered economically as importing meat came to be seen as high risk in the initial panic about the source.
The Army can tax the cow in my barn The Duchy can tax the rest of my farm The landlord taxes my own left arm...
and poultry raised without hormones or steroids 45 percent favor free-range poultry and grass-fed beef
and 41 percent are looking for natural and organic fare. To further differentiate themselves from traditional fast-food burger chains some premium burger chains have jumped on the sustainability bandwagon.
The Burger Joint for example trumpets that its burgers are fed from grain cattle; all natural no hormones fillers or antibiotics and most importantly they run free in the fields.
Shake Shack's menu boasts that its burgers are 100-percent all-natural Angus beef vegetarian-fed humanely raised and source-verified.
and nutrition as well as a cow's well-being is whether cattle end their brief lives in crowded confined feedlots eating genetically modified corn and soybeans or spend all of their time on pasture eating grass and other forage crops
which is evolved what they eating. Feedlot cattle are prone to getting sick so producers routinely feed them antibiotics
which also serve to accelerate growth. After they are weaned from their mothers and grazed on grass most cattle are shipped to feedlots to fatten them up quickly on a grain diet.
If you're going to eat beef you want the grass-fed variety. A 2010 study in Nutrition Journal reviewed three decades of research comparing the nutritional profiles of grass-fed
and grain-fed cattle. It turns out that grass-fed beef has lower levels of unhealthy fats and higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids
Free-range grass-fed cattle may be slightly better for your health than those that are grain-finished at feedlots
Beef cattle and stored cattle manure also are responsible for 18 percent of U s. methane emissions which have nearly 25 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide.
and the climate if they replaced beef with poultry or pork or ate less meat altogether.
or poultry and produces at least five times more carbon pollution. The contrast between beef and such staples as wheat rice and potatoes is even more stark.
Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from livestock in the United states and other developed countries peaked in 1970
That decline however has been offset by rising livestock emissions in developing countries which more than doubled largely due to increased domestic demand for meat.
The study found that worldwide livestock emissions jumped 51 percent from 1961 to 2010. Beef cattle were responsible for more than half of the emissions followed by dairy cattle at 17 percent.
That doesn't let Americans off the hook however. Even though we're eating less beef these days
which explains the drop in U s. livestock emissions we're still No. 1 in the total amount of tonnage.
And those exports would displace exports from Latin american beef producers reducing incentives to cut down tropical rainforests for cattle pasture land.
If U s. consumers want to eat'better'burgers they should consider turkey burgers veggie burgers and other alternatives.
Lowering demand he added also could help cut production here at home where beef cattle account for more than a third of all U s. agricultural heat-trapping emissions.
and livestock study researcher Alison Macintosh an anthropologist at Cambridge university in England said in a statement.
and raising livestock Macintosh said. After comparing the results of the new study with previous studies of bone density
They measured carbon-13 to carbon-12 ratios (and also some other isotope ratios) in bone enamel and hair in these remains and compared them to similar measurements performed on pigs that had received controlled diets consisting of different proportions
As pigs have a similar metabolism to humans their carbon isotope ratios could be compared to
They do indeed drink blood mainly from cattle and deer but they don't suck blood like the legends say Rather they make A v-shaped cut and then lick up the blood according to the San diego Zoo.
Earlier in April drone handlers in Zion national park in Utah were caught harassing a herd of bighorn sheep with a robotic flyer.
So are its cheetahs and aurochs and wildebeests. But animal bones and images of animals on ancient artifacts reveal
the golden jackal the ibex the Barbary goat the Egyptian fox the Dorcas gazelle the wild ass the striped hyena and the slender-horned gazelle
and pig-deer may be the oldest ever found or at the very least comparable in age to cave art in Europe.
This painting of fruit-eating pig-deer known as a babirusa was discovered in an Indonesian cave and dates back around 35400 years ago.
But the pig-deers miniature buffalos and other creatures depicted by prehistoric artists in Indonesia could change that narrative.
#Prehistoric Paintings in Indonesia May be Oldest Cave Art Ever Paintings of miniature buffalos warty pigs
and hyenas the animals represented in Sulawesi include fruit-eating pig-deer called babirusas Celebes warty pigs and midget buffalos also known as anoas.
In the same cave a painting of a babirusa was found to be at least 35400 years old.
That means this pig-deer could be known the oldest figurative work of art in the world older than the beasts that line the walls of Chauvet Cave.
The Native americans who once hunted this region lit fires to burn off dead vegetation encouraging new growth that attracted bison and other large game.
Modern ranchers also use controlled burns to clear soil for younger more nutritious plants for their cattle Earth Observatory reported.
In March the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service placed one of these species the lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) on its list of threatened wildlife.
The prairie chicken actually a grouse is identifiable by its yellow head and red puffy neck.
Gray wolves usually eat large prey such as moose goats sheep and deer. Normally the pack of wolves will find the weakest
when it teamed up with humane organizations to announce groundbreaking reforms in the way chickens pigs cows
and locking egg-laying hens veal calves and mother pigs in tiny cages for their entire lives.
And more than 60 other companies are working to move their pork suppliers away from gestation crates for breeding sows.
The situation for pigs is similar with the conditions on industrial factory farms problematic for breeding pigs.
Sows routinely confined in gestation crates display behavioral abnormalities such as bar-biting and aggression caused by the environmental deficiencies and restricted feeding regimens.
Sows in large industrial operations also are affected by a number of production-related diseases and suffer from higher mortality rates.
When the Prairie Swine Center a prestigious pork-industry research firm compared animal housing systems that confine pigs in gestation crates with group housing
which allows pigs greater freedom of movement their study concluded that better welfare can be achieved
when sows are confined not throughout gestation. Science reveals that locking animals in cages barely larger than their own bodies is detrimental to their welfare.
And Present (ISNS)--The drought that devastated Mongolia in the early part of the last decade killed tens of millions of livestock forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee the countryside
which 40 percent of the work force depends on livestock according to the World bank. The shift to a capitalist economy in the 1990s led to even more investment in livestock Hessl said.
But between 1998 and 2002 three consecutive dzuds severe winters made worse by a preceding drought killed 20 million livestock.
The especially harsh dzud in 2010 killed 20 percent of the nation's livestock population or 8. 5 million animals.
The unrelenting dzuds sent the rural population flooding into the cities primarily Ulaanbaatar. In 2010 68 percent of Mongolians lived in urban areas compared to 57 percent in 2000.
This productivity was crucial for providing a consistent energy source for horses and livestock to support armies.
A powerful swarm of bees could even kill a thin-skinned calf. Researchers had discovered already that elephants produce a rumble like a gravelly baritone growl in response to the threat of bees.
ice-free pockets of land on which to raise their chicks and food within swimming range for feeding those chicks the study found.
When you have these two conditions these two parameters that are met then the population can just explode said study co-author Emiliano Trucchi an evolutionary biologist at the University of Vienna in Austria.
In the summer the penguins dive for tiny lanternfishes about 250 miles (400 kilometers) from the archipelago returning every three to five days to feed their chicks.
and her colleagues snuck onto the edges of the penguins'breeding colonies quietly taking two-to three-week-old chicks from right under their parents'noses
Then the team took a few drops of blood from the chicks to test their DNA.
This will make it hard for the penguins to live on the islands as they need to feed their chicks frequently in the summer
#Skipping Red Meat May Lower Breast cancer Risk Women who eat more poultry fish nuts and legumes and less red meat when they are young adults might have lower risk of developing breast cancer later in life according to a new study.
and hence a public health concern they wrote. 6 Foods That May Affect Breast cancer Risk The results also showed that eating more poultry in early adulthood was associated with a lower risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
Red meat alternatives include legumes nuts poultry and fish. Previous studies have linked red meat to several cancers particularly colon cancer.
Poultry included chicken and turkey and fish included tuna salmon mackerel and sardines. The results held
Aircraft Drops Retardant on Oregon Fire (Photo) Zooming low and tight against a cloud of billowing smoke an MD-87 air tanker drops retardant on the Two Bulls fire
The Two Bulls fire began as two separate burns on June 7 according to Central Oregon Fire Information.
The Oregon Department of Forestry Incident Management Team estimates that the Two Bulls has cost $2. 4 million to fight so far.
along with Hansen's photograph by NASA's Earth Observatory shows a view of the Two Bulls fire from space.
Cows Toot Out Most Methane A new snapshot of U s. methane emissions in 2004 shows livestock primarily cattle and pigs were the country's worst gas emitters at the time.
The study also found that livestock expelled 40 percent more methane than had been estimated by the Environmental protection agency a result in agreement with a recently published review of hundreds of emissions studies detailed in the journal Science.
We are very confident that livestock emissions were being underestimated said lead study author Kevin Wecht an atmospheric chemist at Harvard university in Massachusetts.
In 2004 cows pigs and other livestock expelled more than 13 million tons (12.2 megatons) of methane from both manure
The EPA estimated 9. 7 million tons (8. 8 teragrams) of methane from livestock in 2004.
The new numbers put livestock well ahead of oil and gas producers in 2004. The latest greenhouse gas inventory published by the EPA still has livestock leading oil and gas in 2012 methane emissions.
Overall the new research finds a total of 33 million tons (30.1 teragrams) of methane was released by human activities in the United states in 2004.
It's not surprising that livestock emissions were found to be higher than EPA methodologies said Adam Brandt an energy resources engineer at Stanford university in Palo alto California
#Oldest Known Bird Hatches a New Chick The world's oldest known wild bird just became a mother again.
The tough old bird has hatched a new chick for the past seven years in a row
and has raised likely more than 30 chicks in her lifetime. She also survived a 2011 tsunami
which claimed 2000 of her fellow adult albatrosses and about 110000 chicks in the Midway wildlife refuge an island habitat in the middle of the North Pacific.
Her ability to continue to hatch chicks during the last half century is beyond impressive despite the threats that albatross face at sea refuge biologist Pete Leary said in a statement.
and raising their chick according to FWS officials. Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+.+Follow us@livescience Facebook & Google
#Stress Makes Antarctic Penguins Less-Attentive Parents Stress induced by changes in Antarctic sea ice may cause adult male Adã lie penguins to be less attentive to their chicks and may increase chick mortality according to a new study.
and more time at their nests but were less attentive to their chicks while at their nests compared to untreated adult males the team reported in the Feb 4 online issue of the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
Each male had two chicks at the start of the experiment but by the end after the pellets had degraded completely many of the treated males had lost one of their two chicks to predators
or other unknown causes of death whereas untreated males did not experience this loss. The findings suggest that the stressed males allocated their resources to support one chick
because they were unable to support two study co-author Anne-Mathilde Thierry told Live Science.
On eastern Antarctica's Petrel Island not a single chick has survived the 2013-2014 summer season among the 20000 breeding pairs that live there Thierry said.
The loss of those chicks underscores the importance of follow-up studies regarding how environmental change will influence penguin population growth
This will help reveal how the penguins spend their time away from their chicks and could help pinpoint nuanced behavioral changes associated with elevated levels of stress hormones Thierry said.
The 2009 to 2010 dzud killed some 8 million livestock and created an influx of out of work-work herders to the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar.
or hunting goats gazelles pigs and deer the authors write in the March issue of the journal Antiquity.
The bone wand was carved likely from the rib of an auroch the wild ancestor of cows
In doing so the cuckoo tricks the other bird often a different smaller species into taking on the expensive burden of raising the chick.
The cuckoo chick usually hatches first and grows faster forcing the other chicks out of the nest where they then die.
It then gets the full attention of its adoptive parents giving it much greater chances of survival.</
The big cats even seem to prefer eating domestic dogs in areas where cows goats and other farm animals are plentiful according to a new study.
By comparison livestock were a relatively small portion of the leopard diet. Domestic goats for example accounted for just 11 percent of the mass of the big cats'meals
even though they were seven times more abundant than dogs in the study area. All told 87 percent of the leopards'diet was made up of domestic animals including both livestock and pets;
this suggests the leopards though considered wild are completely dependent on human-related sources of food.
because they likely are not as heavily guarded as economically valuable livestock. During the past two to three decades legal regulation of leopard hunting increased conservation awareness and the rising numbers of feral dogs as prey have led all to an increase in leopard numbers outside
Their findings were published today (Sept. 11) in the journal Oryx. Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+.
meat and poultry soiled by animal feces during processing foods kept warm for too long unpasteurized milk
Cow Urine Promoted for Health Benefits Though it may never move into the mainstream an alternative medicine promoted by a Hindu group in India is getting some attention:
But not any old cow urine will do according to the followers of the hardline Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) sect only the urine collected from a female virgin cow will suffice
Cow urine offers a cure for around 70 to 80 incurable diseases like diabetes Om Prakash of the RSS Cow Protection Department told Reuters. All are curable by cow urine. 7
Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe Cow urine soda? Though Westerners may find the practice surprising if not outright disgusting the therapeutic use of cow urine has a long history in India particularly in Ayurvedic medicine an ancient health care tradition that has been practiced in India for at least 5000 years.
For people who would rather not drink their cow urine straight the RSS has developed a cow-urine-based soft drink called Gomutra Ark.
The drink is promoted as a healthy alternative to Coca-cola Pepsi and other soft drinks which are seen as part of a wider problem resulting from corrupt Western influences.
We refer to gau ark (cow urine) as gau jal (cow water) as it has immense potential to cure various diseases Prakash told The Telegraph.
however are less enthusiastic about the health benefits of drinking cow urine especially when anticancer properties are claimed.
I think I'm perfectly comfortable in saying that I'm aware of no data that cow's urine
And a 2013 study in the International Brazilian Journal of Urology claimed that distilled cow urine might help to prevent the development of kidney stones in rats.
By comparing ground-based studies and in-space observations of solar system's mysterious energy ribbon which was discovered first by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) in 2009 scientists are learning more details about the conditions
Photos and Images from NASA's IBEX Spacecraft What I always have been trying to do was to establish a clear connection between the very high-energy cosmic rays we're seeing from the ground
and what IBEX is seeing study leader Nathan Schwadron a physicist at the University of New hampshire told Space. com. Previously maps from ground-based observatories showed researchers that clusters of cosmic rays extremely high-energy
particles that originate from supernovas are correlated with the IBEX ribbon. The ribbon is roughly perpendicular to the interstellar magnetic field
Voyager 1's measurements of the magnetic field from the edge of interstellar space show a starkly different direction of the magnetic field inferred in the IBEX ribbon Schwadron said.
It seems like we now have good independent confirmation that the IBEX ribbon is ordered by the interstellar magnetic field
and place but IBEX's data is collected and averaged across vast distances so that could also lead to discrepancies.
Road Melts from Yellowstone Volcano's Heat Cows really let loose: In a shocking new study findings show livestock cattle and pigs supply a larger percentage of methane to our atmosphere than previously thought.
According to data from 2004 livestock contributed more to the greenhouse effect than oil and gas operations.
Full Story: Natural gas? Cows Toot Out Most Methane Magnetic field is weakening: Data from Swarm an ESA satellite array indicates Earth's magnetic field is weakening.
Researchers believe these are the beginning signs of the flipping of the magnetic poles yet it is weakening faster than expected.
Other dinosaurs in this group the diplodocids are more than 66 feet (20 m) long said study researcher Pablo Gallina a paleontologist at the Universidad Maimonides in Buenos aires. This may be the smallest of the diplodocids Gallina told Live Science.
Amazing Dinosaur Illustrations Last of the diplodocids Gallina and his collagues excavated the fossil during three trips to Patagonia in 2010 2012 and 2013.
In the Early Cretaceous the environment would have been semiarid bordering a large desert on the supercontinent of Gondwana Gallina said.
and fortitude Gallina said. Unique discovery Diplodocids are famed for their long necks and long tails;
L. laticauda is the first dinosaur ever found in the region from the Early Cretaceous Gallina said.
It wasn't until the bones were out of the ground that the researchers began to realize they had something unique on their hands Gallina said.
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