One shortfall of the analysis the researchers said was that it could not distinguish among the types of vegetarian diets from strict vegan with no animal products to liberal vegetarian diets that allow eggs and dairy and the different diets'respective effects on blood pressure.
or any other animal products) followed by lacto-ovo-vegetarians who eat milk and eggs. The researchers of the new analysis said they hope further studies could clarify
</p><p>Three-toed sloths descend from the trees once a week to defecate providing a breeding ground for moths that live in the animals'fur
For decades many researchers have thought that guenons'unusual fur and facial features were meant to send I'm different signals to other monkeys.
To show that the these monkeys speak to each other with their stylish fur Allen relied on facial recognition software.
which were covered then with cowhide that sealed the coffins from the air. The dry air and salty soil had left many mummies and their accessories extraordinarily well preserved.
The (emperor's) sled was drawn to another place where a gate made of bamboo had been erected having a leather ball suspended in the center.
and arrows in their hands and shot one at the leather ball and the other at a kind of hat of leather also laid upon the ice at a little distance from the gate Houckgeest wrote in his journal.
Many of the rules relate to animal products which are called out in the Torah based on where the animal dwells.
And then there are vegans who abstain from animal products. Many vegans use coconut oil as a butter substitute.
and help consumers avoid the cancer-causing substances found in animal products. PCRM's recommendations are similar to those offered by cancer research organizations such as the American Cancer Society although arguably more extreme in terms of
They all have covered stocky fur bodies; short legs; and a round head with a long snout.
Polar bears with distinctive white fur are the largest bears. An adult male polar bear can grow to be 3. 5 to 5 feet long (1 to 1. 5 meters)
because their fur has white or tan tips. Grizzly means sprinkled or streaked with gray.)
long fur; and split hooves. Some of the ram's relatives are goats bison buffalo antelopes and cattle according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS.
Humans use the meat milk horns and leather. Buffalo are used also for transportation and to pull plows.
and the sighting of one with extremely rare brown-and-white fur is now raising fears that the species may be suffering from inbreeding.
Wang suggests that the Qinling pandas carry a dominant gene for black fur and a recessive gene for brown fur.
This means that pandas with brown-and-white fur are only possible when they inherit the recessive brown gene from both mother and father.
Diet will also be a major determinant in our capacity to nourish the world animal products require considerably more energy and land than plants.
of which only 500 kilocalories is from animal products we are not trying to transform everyone into vegetarians.
owing to increasingly intensive farming practices and the world's growing taste for meat and other animal products.
owing to increasingly intensive farming practices and the world's growing taste for meat and other animal products.
Eight countries Brazil, Morocco, the Philippines, Colombia, Ecuador, Algeria, Venezuela and the Dominican republic collected none at all;
and animal products by NIH-funded researchers exempts purchases of off-the-shelf antibodies. On 11 january, the Animal Welfare Institute petitioned the NIH director Francis Collins
Yet Stotish says that GM animal products will inevitably find their way to grocery stores. He points to heavy investment in the technology in China,
pledged to strengthen their legislation to ensure that the trade of wildlife is regarded as a serious crime a technical definition under United nations rules that should ensure tougher penalties for those convicted of dealing in elephant ivory, rhino horn and other animal products.
I hope the texture is like the fur of an Australian brush tail possum. 1: 20 commenter says I do not understand how this guy still has a job...
but he is not alone in reinventing animal products. Just across town Modern Meadow uses 3-D printers and tissue engineering to grow meat in a lab. The company already has a refrigerator full of lab-grown beef and pork;
In 165-Million-Year-Old Fossil Evidence That Fur Predates Mammals By Shaunacy Ferro Posted on 8. 13.2013 4 Comments 8. 13.2013 at 05:
but its fur is a totally different color; olingos have dull gray fur but the olinguito has reddish-brown fur.
Kristofer Helgen curator of mammals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural history and author of the paper stumbled on some olinguito skins
while researching the olingo in South america. It's slightly smaller than the olingo about 14 inches long
#In 165-Million-Year-Old Fossil, Evidence That Fur Predates Mammalsmeet Megaconus mammaliaformis a 165-million-year-old protomammal recently discovered in Inner Mongolia China.
but the hair and fur residue found preserved in its fossil indicate that those traits existed even back in the Jurassic era.
Hair and fur have generally been considered unique to mammals so it's exciting to find that they could have been around even before the first mammals arrived on the evolutionary scene.
This bolsters the 2006 finding of one other pre-mammalian fossil with fur the only other hairy ancestor we've discovered.
Fur is not an effective insulator in water and so the theory asserts that we evolved to lose our fur replacing it as other aquatic mammals have with relatively high levels of body fat.
Imaginative as this explanation is and helpful in providing us with an excuse for being overweight paleontological evidence for an aquatic phase of human existence has proven elusive...
Instead scientists believe that the spikes trap animals with thick fur like sheep which then starve to death fall to the ground
Our ancestors might have learned that this was adventageous out of the water as well. visualize There is some theorizes that we primates might of spent a lot of time in water as you said forcing us to stand more up right loose our fur too.
ALL OF the UN Security council nations and many others are hellbent for leather with a commercial space push
while those in the cold evolved fur or blubber or the ability to use fire.
Why did modern man loose its fur? Both of these are a non-adaptation to the environment?
Why did modern man loose its fur? There are many ideas on the subject. Fur is a disadvantage in hot environments.
I think courtship/mating preferences had something to do with it too. Why did modern man lose the use of some of its internal organs?
The primates continue all over the world in HOT environment with their fur still ON. Besides the appendix the gall blander is another expendable organ.
The primates continue all over the world in HOT environment with their fur still ON. I did not say all animals must lose their fur in hot environments.
I simply said that losing fur would be an advantage. Some mammals have evolved similarly to humans (mostly hairless) without alien intervention.
So where is the actual physical evidence supporting the Ancient Aliens hypothesis. All of the arguments you have presented thus far are inconclusive
The tips of Amato's fingers brushed the pigskin then his head slammed into the pool's concrete floor with such bone-jarring force that it felt like an explosion.
but they're not particularly closely related to dogs so there's enough separation to see how forced domestication affects a new species. Also these foxes were already tame--they were picked up from fur farms in Siberia
a red fox with silver fur) that's pretty close to our dream fox. It loves and craves attention from people it'll lick your face it'll cuddle with you it'll wag its giant puffy tail
They were to be used as animals for the fur trade. Wild animals would be tested to see which ones tended to be less wild
but failed in the attempt to make good quality fur. lucky for the fox) All of this is on a PBS show.
Their goal-a cheese made with no animal products that fully evokes the real dairy deal has struck a nerve:
In fact although one of the benefits of lab-grown meat is that it's not supposed to harm any animals for now growth medium requires animal products to make.
We may think back with wonder on people capable of a search for the Golden fleece capable of picking up their lives
The third pile known as shredder residue includes everything else lastic foam rubber glass leather carpet even wood
#Sloth Fur Might Yield New Drugssloths are cute. Take this video of baby sloths being washed:
DON'T KILL THE FUR FUNGI!!!New research you see has found that chemicals excreted by microbes in sloth fur had potent activity against a host of human pathogens
and even breast cancer cells and possess anti-malaria and antibacterial properties. The study found that chemicals isolated from fungi in three-toed sloths were deadly for parasites that cause malaria and Chagas disease (Plasmodium falciparum and Trypanosoma cruzi respectively.
The research was only a partial cataloguing of microbes that live in sloth fur which the scientists describe as a potential goldmine for drug discovery.
It's not surprising on the face of it that sloths harbor some interesting microscopic fur-friends: Cyanobacteria have been known to cover their coats coloring them green
The researchers were surprised however by the scope of the fur-fungi's antimicrobial properities. Very few chemicals have been found to have activity against Chagas disease for example
and weigh one-third pound with grayish-brown fur small rounded ears and very little tail.
and to examine emissions by region animal type and animal product. They modelled only the emissions linked directly to animals--the gases released through their digestion and manure production.
Turning chicken feathers and plant fiber into eco-leather, bio-based circuit boardsthe Environmental protection agency has honored the University of Delaware's Richard Wool with its Presidential Green chemistry Challenge Award for his extensive
and foams--even circuit boards hurricane resistant energy efficient roofs and leather substitutes. Finding low toxicity replacements for commodity plastics such as polystyrene and PVC adhesives foams
One of Wool's more recent inventions is a breathable bio-based eco-leather that avoids the traditional leather tanning process.
and others to use the leather substitute in their products. He shares a patent with Nike on the development of its new environmentally friendly air bubbles for athletic shoe wear.
They have a thick fur fly somewhat clumsily and are less aggressive than honeybees or wasps.
and her colleagues conducted a blind study of 241 mother-and-child pairings in Morocco.
A western diet rich in animal products and other acidogenic foods can induce an acid load that is not compensated for by fruit and vegetables;
It has a broad duck-like bill thick otter-like fur and webbed beaver-like feet.
and egg-laying habit of a duck along with the fur and front feet of a rodent--the first Platypus.
Andean bears are Latin america's only bear species. Also known as a spectacled bear they often have light fur resembling glasses around their eyes.
and by only a few countries such as China Morocco Tunisia and the U s a. As a result Europe is completely dependent on imports from these countries to cover phosphorus demand.
since the Neolithic times to prevent spoilage of animal skins and therefore first to manufacture leather laces and soles protecting feet of rough ground.
The result was unexpected and was checked and rechecked. Con j ro added: To come to that conclusion
The 2-pound olinguito with its large eyes and woolly orange-brown fur is native to the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador as its scientific name neblina (Spanish for fog) hints.
of certain nutrients that are more commonly found in animal products according to a presentation at the 2013 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Expo.
and calcium because the main sources of these typically are animal products and could be lacking in their diets.
If we were looking at a leather shoe it would be much more materials-driven because of the carbon intensity of leather production.
#Biomechanical performances of old-fashioned leather and modern football helmets comparedresearchers at the Center for Injury Biomechanics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg Virginia compared the relative safety afforded by two 1930-vintage leather football helmets
These researchers found that all 10 modern helmets provided significantly more protection than leather helmets used in the first half of the twentieth century
Details on their methods and findings are found in Biomechanical performance of leather and modern football helmets.
The authors evaluated leather and modern football helmets by performing a series of 20 drop tests that represent a variety of impacts that could occur during a football game.
Drop tests were used to measure the performance of two Hutch H-18 leather football helmets and 10 modern football helmets that differed in model manufacturer
Each vintage leather helmet was subjected to 12 drop tests; the 48-and 60-inch drop tests were undertaken not
Rowson and colleagues found that vintage leather helmets were associated with substantially greater peak accelerations for each drop height than all modern helmets.
Leather football helmets by Adam Bartsch Edward Benzel M d. Vincent Miele M d. and Vikas Prakash also published today online ahead of print in the Journal of Neurosurgery Bartsch
and fecal samples to detect individual microbial communities Dogs were sampled similarly except that fur was sampled instead of skin on the forehead
In Morocco government subsidies for efficient drip irrigation technologies are used also as a lever to encourage farmers to grow value-added crops that make better use of scarce water.
and runoff from Morocco's High Atlas Mountains has been dammed and redirected hundreds of kilometers to the south to irrigate oases farms in the arid sub-Saharan Draa Basin.
Researchers from Duke university in Durham N c. and Ibn Zohr University in Agadir Morocco measured dissolved salt levels as high as 12000 milligrams per liter at some locations--far above the 1000 to 2000
and have grey-brown fur. You can't really tell them apart just looking at them through binoculars in the rainforest said senior author Peter Kappeler of the German Primate Center in Goettingen who earned his Phd at Duke in 1992.
#Whales streaming baleen tangles to trap fooddiving and plunging through the waves to feed some whales throw their jaws wide
baleen. Alexander Werth from Hampden-Sydney College USA explains that no one knew how the hairy substance actually traps morsels of food.'
'The standard view was that baleen is just a static material and people had thought never of it moving
He publishes his discovery that baleen is a highly mobile material that tangles in flowing water to form the perfect net for trapping food particles at natural whale swimming speeds in The Journal of Experimental Biology.
Explaining that baleen is composed of keratin#the same protein that makes hair and fingernails#Werth also describes how the protein forms large continually growing plates each with an internal fibrous core sandwiched between smooth outer plates.
In addition the baleen fringes of the skim-feeding bowhead whale's bristles are twice as long as the lunging humpback's. Having obtained baleen samples from the body of a stranded humpback during graduate work at the New england Aquarium
and collected samples from ram-feeding bowheads in Alaska Werth began to compare how well the baleen trapped minute latex beads carried in flowing water.
First he tested a small section of each type of baleen in a flow tank as he varied the flow speed from 10 to 120 cm/s
and altered the inclination of the baleen to the water flow from parallel to perpendicular. Monitoring the fringes
and recording how many beads became lodged for 2 s or more Werth saw that the bristles trapped most beads at the lowest speeds
single baleen plates are less effective filters at higher swimming speeds. However Werth says'It doesn't make sense to look at flow across a single plate of baleen it's like looking at feeding with a single tooth;
you can't chew anything with just one tooth you need a whole mouthful.''So he built a scaled down rack of six 20 cm long baleen plate fragments
and tested how well they trapped the latex beads. This time Werth could clearly see the fringes from adjacent baleen plates becoming tangled
and more matted as the flow increased trapping the most particles at speeds ranging from 70 to 80 cm/s
However when he compared the porosity of the baleen of both species he was surprised by the similarity of the performances despite the whales'different feeding styles.
Having found that baleen filters best at the natural swimming speed of skim-feeding bowheads Werth is keen to scale up
and investigate how full-sized 4 m long baleen plates performstory Source: The above story is provided based on materials by The Journal of Experimental Biology.
The researchers fur ther pre dicted that warm ing will trig ger a speedup of the spring green wave
The very young elderly pregnant immunocompromised and other high-risk individuals should avoid all contact with raw animal-product based treats
and many of the popular raw animal-product based pet treats currently on the market said Freeman.
The parasites are identified in lemur fur and feces. Some species--such as pinworms whipworms and tapeworms--cause diarrhea dehydration and weight loss in human hosts.
Sukumar Puhan of the GKM College of Engineering and Technology and colleagues N. Vedaraman and K c. Velappan of the Central Leather Research Institute in Chennai India explain how tree seeds represent a vast untapped
Distributed by species pigs account for around 78%of antimicrobial use in 2013 cattle 10%aquaculture 3%poultry 1%fur animals 4
While the U s. Department of agriculture regulates the interstate transportation and processing of animal products as well as the inspection of animal product imports and exports.
Therefore proposed labeling of animal products from livestock and poultry that have eaten GE feed would require supply-chain segregation
Export Agriculture a Key Driver of Illegal Deforestationaccording to the report the international trade in agricultural commodities (beef leather soy palm oil
#Sleeping on animal fur in infancy found to reduce risk of asthmasleeping on animal fur in the first three months of life might reduce the risk of asthma in later childhood a new study has found.
The new research presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in Munich suggests that exposure to the microbial environment in animal skin
and fur could have a protective effect against asthma and allergies. Previous studies have suggested that exposure to a wider range of environments from a young age could be protective against asthma and allergies.
In this new study researchers investigated children from a city environment who had been exposed to animal skin by sleeping on the material shortly after birth.
The researchers collected information on exposure to animal skin during the first three months of life along with information on the health of children until the age of 10 years.
Information on 2441 children was used in the study with 55%of those included sleeping on animal skin in the first three months of life.
The results showed that sleeping on animal skin was associated with a reduced risk of a number of factors connected to asthma.
The chance of having asthma at the age of 6 years was 79%lower in children who had slept on animal skin after birth compared with those who were exposed not to animal skin.
An animal skin might also be a reservoir for various kinds of microbes following similar mechanisms as has been observed in rural environments.
Our findings have confirmed that it is crucial to study further the actual microbial environment within the animal fur to confirm these associations.
An increase in consumption of animal products is further enhancing the human pressure on croplands and rangelands.
The U-M researchers found that a switch to diets that don't contain animal products would lead to the biggest reductions in this country's diet-related greenhouse emissions.
The fur trade spanning the late 1700s to early 1900s decimated their numbers across their range from Alaska to Baja california Mexico.
since unlike other marine mammals they rely solely on their fur rather than an extra layer of blubber to stay warm--it's like a 120-pound human eating 30 pounds of food per day.
Particularly significant is the impact of animal products: The loss of 1 kilogram of boneless beef has the same effect as wasting 24 kilograms of wheat due to inefficiencies in converting grain to meat.
The study incorporated research findings from field studies conducted in Morocco's Atlas Mountains and Oriental region and in the highlands of Tibet as part of two interdisciplinary projects.
and land use change on natural resources in the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Their data on rainfall fluctuations and on the productivity and regenerative capacity of pasture vegetation formed the basis for the ecological part of the model.
because nomadic and settled cultures have existed side-by-side between Morocco and Tibet for over 5000 years.
Dogs and cats with white or thin coats are at particular risk as are animals with very closely shorn fur
Hairless pets or pets with very short or thin fur can also be vulnerable. For dogs and cats this applies in particular to those parts of the skin that are exposed regularly to the sun. These include the ears the bridge of the nose the skin around the eyes
Particularly vulnerable petshouse pets with white or short fur are at particular risk of sunburn.
In summer animals with shorn fur can also have a problem. The short hair allows UV rays penetrate down to the sensitive skin and cause sunburn.
since they lack the natural sun protection fur affords. Here too though skin pigmentation plays a role
The takeaway message is that relatively small reductions in the consumption of animal products result in non-trivial environmental benefits
The accompanying article makes the case for returning to a large-scale practice of plant-based diets in light of the substantial and detrimental environmental impacts caused by the current trend of eating diets rich in animal products.
and red fox fur trapping records across North america to document how the presence of wolves influences the balance of smaller predators further down the food chain.
Fur trapping records from Saskatchewan and Manitoba reveal that where wolves are absent in the southern agricultural regions of each province coyotes outnumber foxes on average by 3-to-1
In reviewing the fur trapping data from two U s . and six Canadian jurisdictions Newsome and Ripple eliminated potential sources of bias such as records from fur farms that raise foxes.
The fur prices of coyotes and red foxes are correlated also strongly and the two species occupy much of the same types of habitat
so they are equally likely to be targeted and caught in hunters'traps. This study gives us a whole other avenue to understand the ecological effects of wolves on landscapes
and the species is considered endangered because of habitat loss and hunting for food and fur. The first pair of twin fishing cats was born at the National Zoo in May 2012.
and lick their fur to cool down but that can lead to dehydration. Access to these trees can save about half the water a koala would need to keep cool on a hot day lead researcher Dr Natalie Briscoe from the University of Melbourne said.
Pursuing changing human diets away from food animal products--Rice acknowledged that this recommendation may be controversial
but the authors determined that changing human diets away from food animal products could help in mitigating greenhouse gasses.
and examine DNA taken from wolf and dog fur samples as well as wolf scat and blood samples.
Animal skin is usually thinner and more permeable than human tissue Perumal explains. We need repeatability.
It takes for instance 2. 700 liters of water to produce 1 kilo of cereals in Morocco
Local water scarcity is reduced through imports of agricultural goods and therefore saving regional agricultural production particularly in parts of India Morocco Egypt and Pakistan.
but for undernourished communities there are health benefits to consuming healthy animal products. However the goal of public health should be a balanced diet across all countries with a target of no more than 300 grams of red meat per person per week.
Rising incomes in developing countries for example have enabled more consumers to include larger quantities of animal products oils and sugars in their diets.
The Mediterranean-style diet is low in animal products and saturated fat and encourages intake of monounsaturated fats found in nuts and olive oil.
Specific dietary preferences regarding animal products in food are common in the general population. Influences such as religion culture economic status environmental concern food intolerances and personal preferences all play a part in the foods that people choose to consume.
Yet many patients and doctors are unaware that commonly prescribed drugs contain animal products --and simply reading the list of ingredients will not make it clear
Even though the absolute levels of animal products in many medications are likely to be minimal the authors say doctors need to consider this
Our data suggest that it is likely that patients are unwittingly ingesting medications containing animal products with neither prescriber nor dispenser aware they write.
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