Cheetahs prey on warthogs gazelles antelopes rabbits porcupines and even ostriches and they catch their prey by chasing it down.
Leopards eat anything from carcasses fish and reptiles to mammals such as baboons antelopes warthogs hares and rodents.
and goats 8000 cattle and 1000 pig bones he wrote in a paper published in the book Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the ICAZ Working group'Archaeozoology of Southwest asia and adjacent Areas'(Peeters Publishing 2013).
or goat in tomb scenes and that pigs never appear in tomb scenes. The settlement located adjacent to the workers'town dubbed eastern town wasn't as rigidly planned as workers'town
and its residents were eating a considerable number of pigs the researchers found. Evidence also suggested the people in eastern town were trading with people in workers'town for hippo-tusk fragments.
Geneticists have bred GMO pigs that glow in the dark by inserting into their DNA a gene for bioluminescence from a jellyfish.
One bit of good news is that H7n9 does not appear to spread between pigs. In the study pigs did not catch H7n9 from each other either through the air or direct contact.
Transmission between pigs would be concerning because it would provide more opportunities for the H7n9 virus to evolve
and transmit to people that way too Webby said. Based on the new results pigs are unlikely to be major players in maintaining of the viruswebby said.
However Webby noted the study tested just one strain of H7n9 and there are other strains out there that may act differently.
By simulating human graves by burying dead pigs under a variety of conditions and then monitoring the graves using geophysical methods such as radar researchers could improve the ability to find hidden bodies.
In one study the researchers compared their ability to detect naked pigs versus ones wrapped in a plastic cloth.
The naked pigs were easier to detect than the ones wrapped in plastic the study showed.
Again the naked pigs were detected more easily than the wrapped ones. The results of that work also showed that the signs of a hidden body vary with the soil type and climate.
For the researchers'newest project they plan to bury pigs in Colombia in simulated secret graves under eight scenarios of different soil types and climates.
Even the name Sparta is from a verb meaning oei sow or oeto sow. Although Sparta made efforts to consolidate its territory in Laconia we also know that at this early stage the people of the city appear to have taken pride in their artistic skills.
but one male cheetah who frequently hunted in areas with thicker vegetation occasionally hunted warthogs Wilson said.
It walks on two legs ending with cloven hooves or pig's feet. The overall body shape resembles a kangaroo
#Kiss the Pig Contests, Cheap Laughs and Bullying (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
(and other organizations) holding events such as kiss the pig contests to reward students for reading
if they knew about the stress experienced by the pig I'm sure they'd recognize the harm that's being done.
and has to kiss a pig is considered a loser. In kiss a pig contests these sensitive animals are surrounded by shrieking kids
and the pigs have no understanding of what is happening to them. The piglets often scream in fright urinate
and struggle to escape. Schools should recognize that these kinds of incentives encourage students to be openly disdainful of their teachers and also foster derision and disrespect toward both educators and pigs.
Instead of mocking pigs students could learn a lot of positive lessons about kindness and compassion from them.
Pigs aren't mindless Pigs are loyal friends and amiable companions. Smart and inquisitive they enjoy exploring
and uncovering new and interesting things. They dream and also enjoy listening to music and getting back rubs.
Research conducted on the cognitive and emotional lives of pigs has been published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals
and clearly shows they are extremely clever that they love to play and (like dogs)
when pigs are stressed they can even become pessimists. Calling someone a pig should actually be a compliment.
Clearly pigs are highly emotional sentient beings who are capable of experiencing joy happiness fear stress and pain.
Just as none of us would appreciate being held up in front of a jeering crowd neither do pigs.
And neither would most dogs. Bullying is bullying no matter who the victim is. The teacher who would stop a child from being picked on should extend the same compassion toward animals.
If students were taught how sensitive and personable pigs really are I feel certain these contests would be stopped once and for all.
Young people can learn to appreciate pigs for the truly remarkable beings they are. Pigs offer valuable lessons in forgiveness resilience and confidence and I know this firsthand from a pig I met a few years ago named Geraldine.
From Animals We Can Learn Generosity and Forgiveness (Op-Ed) Geraldine was rescued a potbellied pig living at a lovely sanctuary called Kindness Ranch.
Although she had known nothing but cruelty before being rescued she was personable and clearly interested in assessing me for acceptance as a new friend.
This article was adapted from Kiss a Pig Contests Cheap Laughs and Bullying in Psychology Today.
Although health officials still haven't confirmed the species of animal that is the source of the H7n9 bird flu outbreak in China most people who fell ill had contact with birds or pigs according to a new report.
while 20 percent reported exposure to ducks and 7 percent to swine the report said.
Aninvestigation of 82 people infected with the new bird flu virus shows most who fell ill had contact with birds or pigs.
</p><p>Turns out<a href=http://www. livescience. com/13953-pigs-evolved-mud-wallowing. html>pigs aren't just putting on a show</a
While mud baths keep pigs cool a review of research reported in 2011 found wallowing may also be a swine sign of well-being.
While the review found the strongest reason noted in the past studies for wallowing was to keep cool the pigs kept it up through winter months.</
#Pig-Like Beast Leads the Way to Ancient Cave Drawings White-lipped peccaries may not be glamorous-looking
On the trail of the pig-like creatures in Brazil researchers made an unexpected and rare discovery:
while surveying white-lipped peccaries in Brazil's Cerrado plateau a vast savanna region in 2009. The animals which travel long distances are considered environmental indicators of healthy forests.
while tracking the peccaries near the remote city of Corguinho in the Brazilian state of Mato grosso do Sul.
In addition to human figures and geometric shapes many different kinds of animals were represented from big cats and armadillos to birds and reptiles but alas no peccaries.
The white-lipped peccary whose scientific name is Tayassu pecari is listed as a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Natureâ (IUCN) the world's mainâ authorityâ for the conservation status of wildlife.
#Scientists Make Piglets Glow Under a Black Light Scientists say they've created ten genetically engineered piglets this year that glow green under a black light.
The pigs'embryos were injected with a molecule from bioluminescent jellyfish that carries instructions to make green fluorescent protein or GFP.
Study researcher Stefan Moisyadi a bioscientist from the University of Hawaii at Manoa explained in a statement that the GFP in the piglets is marker to show that we can take a gene that was not originally present in the animal
Video footage of two of the piglets in the dark show that the gene is definitely present.
The year before in Oregon 4000 of real pig blood spilled from a truck carting animal waste from a processing plant.
and hides of animals processed for their meat (usually cows and pigs). But hooves consist of a different protein keratin
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.
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.
and the manure of animals like cows chickens and pigs the researchers said. It's not clear exactly
Most of a tiger's diet consists of large prey such as pigs deer rhinos or elephant calves.
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
Manure from horses cows pigs or chickens has the nitrogen phosphorus and other goodies that plants need.
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
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.
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.
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.
In 2004 cows pigs and other livestock expelled more than 13 million tons (12.2 megatons) of methane from both manure
or hunting goats gazelles pigs and deer the authors write in the March issue of the journal Antiquity.
In a shocking new study findings show livestock cattle and pigs supply a larger percentage of methane to our atmosphere than previously thought.
The beginning of the year (and the starting of the calendar) signaled that farmers should trellis vines prune trees and sow spring wheat.
Now in experiments in pigs researchers have come up with a new method for making a biological pacemaker that might one day serve as an alternative to electronic ones the researchers said.
but pig hearts are similar to human hearts in their size and the way that they work so there's reason to think the new findings could translate to humans.
or integrate into the genome the pig experiments showed that a small amount of virus did end up in other organs in the animals besides the heart according to the study published today (July 16) in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
In the study the researchers used pigs with a condition called complete heart block in which the heart beats very slowly.
Within a few days the pigs that received the TBX18 gene had faster heartbeats than pigs that did not receive the gene.
In addition the hearts of pigs with the biological pacemaker were able to speed up during exercise
and slow down during rest much better than the hearts of pigs without the biological pacemaker.
The pigs with the TBX18 gene were also more physically active than the pigs without the gene according to the study.
because over time the pigs'bodies started to reject cells with the injected virus. The researchers are now testing how long the treatment lasts.
In the study a small amount of virus ended up in the pigs'spleens and lungs after it was injected
#Livestock Workers May Carry Staph Bacteria from Pigs Workers who handle livestock may carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria in their noses after they leave the farm.
Over the past several decades it's become standard practice for farmers to give animals such as chickens and pigs regular doses of antibiotics.
It's clear that the chlorine is simply an attempt to put lipstick on a pig or decontaminant on a chicken.
and stealth to take down deer peccary monkeys birds frogs fish alligators and small rodents. If wild food is scarce these large cats will also hunt domestic livestock.
Wild boars and mongooses are known to steal cobra eggs. The mongoose is the best-known enemy of the cobra.
#Pork Producers Prohibit Painful Pig Pens (Op-Ed) Matthew Prescott is food policy director for The Humane Society of the United states. He contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices:
Gestation crates are tiny cages that confine pigs so restrictively they can barely move an inch during their entire lives.
The crates about two feet wide by seven feet long are roughly the same dimensions as a pregnant sow s own body preventing her from even turning around.
For the four months she is gestating the sow lingers in the cage essentially immobilized day and night.
She spends a few short weeks weaning her piglets there is re-impregnated and put back into a gestation crate.
For example 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. As the report found Research comparing group housed sows to those in crates found that the animals unable to exercise due to stall confinement have lower bone strength muscle mass and decreased physical fitness and cardiovascular health.#
#After the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm animal Production a panel including farmers veterinarians and former Agriculture secretary Dan Glickman studied the issue it recommended the phase out within 10 years of all intensive confinement systems that restrict natural movement
and normal behaviors including swine gestation crates.##Science plus consumer support have motivated some major pork producers to move toward group housing.
earlier this year it extended that commitment to affect all the contractors producing piglets for the company.
And last January Tyson foods announced it had advised the farmers in its system that future sow housing should allow animals to turn around
So our animals can t turn around for the 2. 5 years that they are in the stalls producing piglets Dave Warner spokesman for the National Pork Producers Council once remarked in a National Journal interview.
I don t know who asked the sow if she wanted to turn around. Warner's and the Pork Council's callous statements about how animals should be treated are out of step with both what mainstream Americans want for animals and
Boucher and his co-authors point out that methane emissions from pigs and poultry which have chambered a single stomach are negligible by comparison.
The elephants were the ace in the hole able to trample the enemy and sow terror with their massive size.
The DNA in food found in the plaque matched pigs sheep bread wheat and vegetables such as cabbage.
I even interned at a pig farm in New jersey. I began my career as a zookeeper interning at the Queens Zoo
In pointing a finger at these human cousins the authors of the paper may have been too quick to rule out bears wild boars
because scientists don't know how the results from the lab will carry over to complex environments such as a pig's digestive system.#
or restrict the use of this drug during pig production including all countries in the European union Russia and China.
But that hasn't stopped the U s. pork industry from feeding it to an estimated 60 percent to 80 percent of American pigs to rapidly boost growth rates.
If you buy pork at your local supermarket chances are that it came from a ractopamine-treated pig.
A few days ago Mcclatchy published a detailed piece on how the American pork industry led by the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) now is demanding that European authorities allow pork from pigs fed ractopamine
The U s. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved ractopamine for use on pigs after just one human health study an evaluation of six young healthy men one of whom dropped out
Ractopamine may increase the number of injured and/or fatigued pigs during marketing. Not for use in breeding swine.
Memo to Congress: Protect Public health Not Toxic Chemicals (Op-Ed) The FDA has linked ractopamine to nearly a quarter-million reported adverse events in pigs (more than half of those pigs were sickened
or killed) more than any other animal drug. These pigs became lame or unable to stand started trembling
or suffered a host of other ailments. In particular ractopamine causes pigs to collapse and become downers that is animals too sick
or injured to walk and then often dragged into the slaughterhouse. HSUS investigations at pig factory-farms have shown that these downer pigs are often terribly
and cruelly mishandled. The pork industry vehemently fights all of our efforts to require the euthanasia of downer pigs perhaps
because it realizes that there are so many downers now that the use of ractopamine is so routine.
This reminds me of the pork industry's stubborn refusal to stop using gestation crates coffin-sized crates that confine pregnant sows so tightly that they can't even turn around.
So our animals can't turn around for the 2. 5 years that they are in the stalls producing piglets.
I don't know who asked the sow if she wanted to turn around#Gestation Crates Have No Place in U s. Food Production (Op-Ed) Thankfully this line of thinking now faces a major challenge from within the pork industry with major producers splitting from the NPPC on gestation crates
what we are learning is that it often has effects on other species. For instance there is a pig pheromone that stops dogs from barking Mcglone said.
In a new study scientists transplanted hearts from genetically engineered pigs into baboons whose immune systems had been suppressed to prevent them from rejecting the transplants.
and his colleagues used hearts from pigs that had been engineered genetically to remove genes known to cause tissue rejection in humans
Pigs were chosen because their anatomy is similar to humans 'and they mature very quickly. The researchers implanted hearts from these pigs into the abdomens of baboons without replacing the monkeys'original hearts but still connecting the pig hearts to the baboons'circulatory system.
The transplanted hearts survived in the baboons for more than 500 days with the baboons taking immunosuppressive drugs the researchers reported.
The next step will be to perform transplants that replace the baboons'hearts with the genetically engineered pig hearts.
This included diverse small animals such as hares fish turtles hedgehogs and partridges as well as larger prey such as deer boars horse goats sheep extinct wild
while that of camels rabbits and pigs is not. Sea animals: Kosher sea dwellers must be equipped with fins and scales.
and given the opportunity will hunt domestic animals such as sheep pigs horses and other livestock.
#Human Muscle Rebuilt with Pig Bladder Tissue An experimental treatment using a pig bladder could help people who have lost a substantial portion of a muscle researchers say.
The treatment involved a pig bladder that had been stripped of its cells leaving only a scaffold made of tough proteins.
In the study the protein scaffold that holds the cells of a pig bladder in place worked by attracting stem cells to the site the injury
When the researchers placed a piece of the pig bladder scaffold on wounded mice the animals'muscle grew back
In the course of a single day and night I saw hyacinth and blue-and-yellow macaws brocket deer white-lipped peccary rhea jabiru stork roseate spoonbill wood stork the greater potoo capybara tapir
Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society have documented use of the corridors by white-lipped peccaries an important indicator species that reveals much about the health of the ecosystem.
I call these corridors the great peccary highways. Sadly this traditional way of life is under threat from two principal trends.
After having eradicated pigs from the island, Filipe Cruz from the Galapagos National park service in Ecuador and his colleagues turned their attention to goats.
Nature Newswhen the Ebola Reston virus was discovered in pigs in the Philippines last year, it marked the virus's first known foray outside primates,
We never thought that pigs could be infected, he says. Once inside the pig it may be possible for the virus to mutate into a version that is deadly to humans
and there is no evidence of symptoms in pig handlers, who will soon be tested to find out
if they have developed antibodies to the virus. The investigation into the Ebola Reston infections began after farmers in the Philippines reported high mortality rates in their pigs in 2008.
samples from 28 dead pigs were sent to the Plum Island Animal disease Center in New york, where researchers found evidence of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus, also known as blue-ear pig disease,
so the pig samples were rushed to the CDC labs in Atlanta for further analysis . Despite the presence of other diseases in the samples including swine fever,
and the porcine circovirus type II Rollin thinks that Ebola Reston is to blame for the pigs'deaths
because histological samples showed that the virus had pervaded the spleen, similar to its mode of attack in monkeys.
The infected pigs came from several farms on the island of Luzon, and on 13 january, health officials collected blood and tissue samples from hundreds of apparently healthy pigs there.
Although Rollin does not expect to find the virus itself in these samples, the pigs may carry antibodies that should indicate an approximate mortality rate associated with exposure.
Rollin suspects that, as is the case with monkeys, the infections resulted from contact with a reservoir of the virus,
The virus is likely to be spread by bat droppings falling into the pigs'feed,
and the threat of infection could be reduced by moving fruit trees, where the bats roost, away from pig farms,
or by putting roofs on pig enclosures. We can't exterminate it, we just have to learn how to avoid it,
UK, who is developing mouse-pig hybrid embryos. The paper outlines only one set of conditions used to create the embryos,
Argentinian authorities report that a pig at a pig farm in Buenos aires province has tested positive for the novel H1n1 strain,
making it only the second known swine infection outside of Canada. 22 june 2009: Chinese state news source Xinhua reports tests have begun on the first H1n1 vaccine developed in the country.
Canadian authorities announce that H1n1 has been detected in a swine herd in Alberta. The pigs likely caught the virus from a Canadian who had visited recently Mexico,
making this the first known case of human-to-animal transmission. 1 may 2009: As of this morning, 331 cases of H1n1 have been reported in 11 countries.
Patchy pig monitoring may hide flu threat: Nature Newspublic-health experts are warning that a lack of surveillance may be allowing the 2009 pandemic H1n1 flu virus to go undetected in pigs.
This raises the risk that the virus could circulate freely between humans and pigs, making it more likely to reassort into a deadlier strain,
they say. Pig surveillance is largely the remit of animal health organizations, agriculture ministries and the farming industry.
Their main concern tends to be that any reports of the pandemic virus in pigs might provoke overreactions such as the mass culling of pigs that took place in Egypt
or trade bans on pigs and pork. Within minutes of the World health organization (WHO) announcement on 11 june that swine flu had become a pandemic, Bernard Vallat, director-general of an intergovernmental trade body,
the World organisation for Animal health (OIE), had reiterated that trade sanctions were unjustified. So far the role of animals has not been demonstrated in the virus's epidemiology or spread,
But some experts say that is an artefact of patchy to nonexistent flu surveillance in pigs.
and his colleagues concluded that the lack of systematic swine surveillance allowed for the undetected persistence and evolution of this potentially pandemic strain for many years.
and pigs are an obvious part of the epidemiology of the new virus, says Smith. Yet the number of swine-flu sequences in the international Genbank database is about a tenth of that for avian flu viruses.
Circulation of the virus between pigs and humans is definitely a possibility he adds. The pandemic virus has so far been found in pigs from just one farm, in Alberta, Canada,
where it spread throughout the herd. But noone has been able to pin down how the herd became infected.
Scientists at the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge, UK, have shown that pigs can easily become infected with the virus,
Past pandemic viruses have gone also on to become endemic in pig populations. It's absolutely surprising that a virus this contagious in both humans and swine
and which has been reported in humans in 76 countries, has only been reported in one swine farm in Canada,
says Jimmy Smith, head of livestock affairs at the World bank in WASHINGTON DC, and a member of the organization's flu task force.
It is highly likely that more pigs are infected in more places. Absence of evidence of the pandemic virus in pig populations is not evidence of absence,
concedes Steve Edwards, chairman of the OIE-FAO Network of Expertise on Animal Influenza (OFFLU),
pigs have been below the radar, says Ilaria Capua, an animal-flu expert at the Experimental Animal health Care Institute of Venice in Legnaro, Italy.
In pigs flu viruses, although common, tend to cause only mild disease, so there is no obligation to report cases of swine flu,
however its member states to voluntarily report any occurrences of the 2009 pandemic virus in pigs.
Most flu surveillance in pigs is passive, relying on farmers or vets sending material to government labs. Active targeted surveillance with diagnostic tests is rarer,
and THE WHO on 21 may the conclusions of which were made public last week recommended scaling up flu surveillance efforts in pigs,
European union funding for one of the world's largest pig surveillance networks expired in March. The European Surveillance Network for Influenza in Pigs,
which was created in 2001, comprises nine European labs and one in Hong kong. Although the network has detected not yet the new virus in pigs, its coordinator Kristien Van Reeth,
an animal virologist at Ghent University in Belgium, admits that participating labs have taken just a few hundred to a thousand samples each over the past year.
Network members hope that with the pandemic highlighting the need for better pig surveillance new funding will be forthcoming.
-and public-health communities underestimated the potential for pigs to generate a pandemic virus . Although pigs can be infected with many subtypes of flu,
the three most common endemic strains are H1n1, H1n2 and H3n2. Most expected that any new pandemic would involve the introduction of a viral subtype not previously seen in humans,
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