So how long will it be before we see a revived version of the passenger pigeon (extinct in 1914), the Tasmanian tiger (extinct in 1936),
and the woolly mammoth (extinct over 3, 000 years ago) roaming the earth again? It will probably come as a surprise to most to learn that the first revival of an extinct species has occurred already.
if California condors go extinct, it s unclear if they could ever be brought back fully, because young condors rely on their parents for training.
will revived a species learn to adapt to its new environment? Will they be able to reproduce in sufficient number to ever be fully viable?
or will those differences make them ultra-adaptable where they will thrive to the point of becoming a pest to their surroundings.
among others. 2.)Cloning with cells from cryopreserved tissue of a recently extinct animal can generate viable eggs.
If the technique proves successful (such as with the passenger pigeon), it might be applied to the many other extinct species that have left their#oeancient DNA#in museum specimens
and animals are one thing, but when it comes to tampering with humans the stakes get much higher.
when he recommended the slaughter of 40,000 elephants to help prevent desertification, only later to realize that elephant grazing itself was highly beneficial to thwart the encroachment of the desert.
Brand ended his talk with, #oehumans made a huge hole in nature, and we have a moral obligation to repair the damage.#
if we bring some of our extinct animals back? Are the close proximities of animals that Brand describes close enough,
or is this a dangerous area to be playing in? I d love to hear your thoughts?
and also reduce the number of insects and weeds. The soil needs to be changed once every year to keep the garden in a great state...
Xavier Callauaud s garden comes with a worm farm that will encourage plant fertilization and organic recycling.
when you cram animals together by the thousands and dose them daily with antibiotics, the bacteria that live on
and in the animals adapt and develop resistance to those bacteria killers. Pew crunched another new set of data, the FDA s latest release of results from its National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System,
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a relatively straightforward technological innovation#GPS-equipped free-range cows that can be nudged back within virtual bounds by ear-mounted stimulus-delivery devices#has implications that could profoundly reshape our relationships with domesticated animals,
Our discussion ranged from robotic rats and sheep laterality to the advantages of GPS imprecision and the possibility of high-tech herds bred to suit the topography of particular property.
When it comes to managing animals, every conventional fence that I have built ever has been in the wrong place the next year.
whether it s elephants in Africa or Hereford cows in Las Cruces, New mexico. You will have seen this,
so that animals would move to that location#there are a host of things that we have tried. And they all work under certain conditions.
But, if you have the animals clear over three pastures away, then you ve got to monitor the rainfall-related growth,
and you ve got to get labor to help round those animals up and move them over to this new location.
if part of this landscape s call is to support animals, then you are not optimizing
or exclude animals from areas on the landscape that you want to manage with scalpel-like precision.
And you can move the polygon that the animals are in over in that far corner of the pasture.
amoeba-like to fit in this new area. You basically have real-time management, which is something that is not currently possible in livestock grazing,
what an animal does, so that they can actually predict where the animal is going to move before the animal actually moves.
In my opinion if they ever figure that out, it s going to be way past my lifetime.
If you stimulate an animal with something unknown then, at least initially, it s going to move away from it.
animals will try and avoid the ending event #if they re given the opportunity. This is the principle that has allowed the USDA to receive a patent on this methodology.
there are animals that you could basically look at cross-eyed and they ll move, and then there are animals like me,
where you ve got to get a 2ã and hit them up across the head to get their attention before anything happens.
When these kinds of systems have been built for dog training or dog containment in the past, they simply had a shock,
or the animal s personality. stands up and draws on whiteboard Let s say that this is the polygon that we want the animal to stay in.
These cues were developed to fit the animal that we are trying to manage. Now, if we go back to me as the example,
when the animal wanders into the 200m-wide virtual boundary band. Algorithms then combine that data to determine which side of the animal s to cue,
and Future#)If I m the animal and I m getting closer and closer to the edge of the polygon,
and use to move animals down chutes. I touched the Hotshot output and I could still feel it in my fingertips the next morning,
We don t want to overstress the animal. So we end up, either in distance or time or both, having a point at which,
if this animal decides it really wants what s over here, it s not going to be irritated to the point of going nuts.
if the animal doesn t respond appropriately, we are not going to do anything that would cause negative animal welfare issues.
There s no need to stimulate an animal beyond what it needs. I can tell you that
when a flock of birds flew over than when I applied the sound. Now, there are going to be some animals that you either get your rifle
and then put the product in your freezer, or you go put the animal back into a four-strand barbed wire fenced pasture.
Not every animal on the face of the earth today would be controllable with virtual fencing.
You could gradually increase the number of animals that do adapt well to being managed using virtual fencing in your herd through culling.
But the vast majority of animals will react to these irritations, at some level. They can choose at which point they react, all the way from the whisper to the lawnmower.
Whatever we do to animals, we are teaching them something. It s our choice as to what we want them to learn.
But, of the animals with whom I have worked #and the literature would support what I m going to say#cows are, in fact smarter than human beings in a number of ways.
What our team did initially was cannibalize a kids remote control car to send a signal to the device worn by the animal.
to steer the animals#no pun intended#over the landscape. What s interesting is that
In twenty years from now#somewhere in this century, at least#after the ethical and moral issues have been worked out, instead of stimulating animals with external audio sound or electrical stimulation,
It s been done with rodents. The idea was that these animals could be equipped with a camera
or other sensors and sent into earthquake areas or fires or where there were environmental issues that humans really shouldn t be exposed to.
Do you send rodents into it? You can see the moral and ethical issues that need to be worked out.
Aha#so it s the human animals that will need still a physical fence. Anderson: I think so.
animals have laterality. You probably didn t see the article that I published last year on sheep laterality. laughter Twilley and Manaugh:
but, basically, animals are no different than you and I. There are animals that have a preference to turn right
and others that have a preference to turn left. Now, I didn t do this study to waste government money.
so you can learn about each animal, and modify your stimulus accordingly. There is no reason at all that we cannot design the algorithms and gather data that,
over time, will make the whole process optimized for each animal, as well as for the herd and the landscape.
so if the polygon that contains the animals is programmed to move toward good forage, the cows will follow.
if you were using the virtual fence to move animals toward better forage, you could almost eliminate the virtual fence line behind the animals,
especially if the drinking water was kept near the#oemoving feed bunk.##The other thing is that the consumer-level GPS RECEIVERS
because there is never an exact line where that animal is sure to be cued and hence the animal cannot match a particular stone
or other environmental object with the stimulation event even if the virtual boundary is held static. It s always going to be just in the general area.
and divide it into many small paddocks and move animals through these paddocks, leaving the animals in any one paddock for only a few hours or days.
not to mention moving the animals in and out of different paddocks all the time. With the virtual paddock you can just program the polygon to move spatially and temporally over the landscape.
which to manage free-ranging animals. Here s another thing. Like anybody who gathers free-ranging animals,
I have a song I use. My song is pretty benign and can be sung among mixed audiences. sings#oecome on sweetheart,
Then when we wanted to gather the animals we wirelessly activated the DVFELECTRONICS and my#oesong###oecome on, girls,
Sure, I can get my animals up in the middle of night to move them, but why do that?
when the animals might start drifting in to d h
#A new Pew Internet reporttakes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries,
Examples of services discussed in the report Technology#oepetting Zoo#The Kent Free Library in Ohio#oehas hosted Technology Petting Zoos to give patrons
The library frequently hosts technology petting zoos to teach patrons how to use the CCPL tool
#Coordination with schools and literacy efforts Several libraries and schools have programs where children read to dogs,
such as the Fairfax Community Library s#oeread To A Dog#Program and the therapy dogs at the Princeton Public library.
#oelibrary staff present stories of grizzly deaths from Sacramento s past and a horror film is shown for those awaiting their turn on the tour.#(
#and#oecolor Your World#Exploring Stress Relief With Paint#(New Milford Public library, New Milford, CT) Stuffed Animal Sleepover (Darien Library, Darien,
Manatee County Public library, Bradenton, FL) Teen Battle of the Bands-The winning band will receive 10 hours of recording time at Clear Track and $1, 000 cash.
A big indoor#oefair at the library, with giant games, bowling in the stacks, musical entertainment, storytellers, crafts, an ice cream bar, a Tech Petting Zoo, and more.
making contest, Classes on making wreaths, walking sticks, vegetable gardens, butterfly gardens, native plants and hypertufa Madison County Public library::
Wall street journal article Mississippi Annual Worm Race#Kids bring live worm or borrow one from library to race.
We have developed trunks that feature ungulates, bears, owls, creepy-crawlies, water, and tracks. Each of the trunks includes between 15#20 books on the subject,(both fiction and non-fiction;
and wildlife resources, such as grizzly hides, elk antlers, deer hooves, a number of rubber tracks, skulls, and more.
Additionally, MT FWP staff works with libraries across the state to provide programming in libraries on MT animals.#
games and dances including Lion Dance, Gu Zheng Solo, Gong Fu, Chinese Yo-yo, Handkerchief Dance,
and birds you see along the way.#(#Hillsboro Public library, Hillsboro, Oregon) From the Ashland Branch Library of the Jackson County Library Services:
Owl Pellets#A presentation on owls where the kids and adults take apart owl#oepellets#to see what they have eaten and digested.
Frankentoys#the teens took old stuffed animals and sewed new heads and body parts, added decorations, etc.
When the U s. Forest Service looked at mortality rates in counties affected by the emerald ash borer,
The emerald ash borer had come from overseas and was quickly spreading a literal bug across state and national lines to Ohio, Minnesota, and Ontario.
It spread to more distant and seemingly random locations as the infested trees were shipped beyond the Midwest.
When the U s. Forest Service looked at mortality rates in counties affected by the emerald ash borer,
Which is all to say that there is something fascinatingly mysterious about the entanglement of our health with that of nature.
moulds and rodents destroy or at least degrade large quantities of food material, and substantial amounts of foodstuffs simply spill from badly maintained vehicles
Honeybees pollinate nearly one-third of the food we eat but they have been dying at unprecedented rates because of a mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD).
The situation is so dire that in late June the White house gave a new task force just 180 days to devise a coping strategy to protect bees and other pollinators.
It had previously been impossible to pack all the things needed to make a robot fly onto such a small structure and keep it lightweight.
Honeybees alone contribute more than $15 billion in value to U s. agricultural crops each year. But Robobees are not yet a viable technological solution.
the tiny bots have to be able to fly on their own andtalk to one another to carry out tasks like a real honeybee hive.
The hive must be resilient enough so that the group can complete its objectives even if many bees fail.
the devices aren meant t to replace natural pollinators forever. We still need to focus on efforts to save these vital creatures.
Where are you a little over a year after it was announced that the first robotic insect took flight?
meaning it flies without being tethered and without the need for anyone to drive it. We ve been building a larger version of the robot
Last month, Greenpeace released a short video that imagines a future in which swarms of robotic bees have been deployed to save our planet after the real insects go extinct.
Will robot bees eventually be able to operate like honeybee hives to pollinate commercial crops? Ma:
You could replace a hive of honeybees that would otherwise be working on a field of flowers.
These range from smart self-adjusting thermostats like Nest to IP connected appliances that self-report maintenance information.
and water to each specific animal as well as administer any necessary medications. In addition they can accurately forecast the weight
and ship date of each animal, while weeding out the under producing animals and the sows that create them.
This use case blew my mind and made me realize how diverse Iot can be.
and even pest and disease resistance. There is potential for these multifunctional techno-greenhouses built around LED grow lights to increase the quality of the food we eat
6. Swarmbots Groups of flying drones that move like flocks of birds, schools of fish,
Animal Communicator With early stage natural language translators already in existence for humans, the next step will be a technology that bridges the communication gap between humans and animals.
and how would this affect our human-animal relationships? 16. Global Elections When will we see the first global election with over 500 million people voting from at least 50 different countries?
nano-netting will provide a fibrous support structure that is visually non-intrusive but capable of keeping out insects, birds,
and other unwanted animals. But this technology will also enable objects to be suspended in air with seemingly invisible support.
Robotic Earthworms The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills because that is where we have buried our most valuable natural resources.
In the future, robotic earthworms will be used to silently mine the landfills and replace whatever is extracted with high-grade soil. 43.
At my worst, most conversations with friends and family would start withdo you have a charger?
I m not beating a dead horse. I have no doubt that mobile is the future that is already here.
I hope the Badgers won (edit: they didn t? Did that dude from work ever email me back?
This time spent crashing a fucking bird into a pipe quickly accumulates where a significant amount of seemingly insignificant yet beautiful moments pass you by
and want to feed their pets the same way, says Sean Delaney, a board-certified veterinary nutritionist who co-authored a textbook on pet nutrition.
D c.,says he started cooking food for Toffee, his 10-year old mixed Boykin spaniel,
After eliminating the possibility of fleas, he decided to try a dog food recipe his wife found online.
The recipe was created by Michael Fox, former vice president of the Humane Society of the U s. and the author of more than 40 books on animal care, behavior and bioethics.
organic foods that are biologically appropriate for the species. Food for Dogs is different from Dog food it s human food quality,
but with less grains, Fox writes on his website, where he offers the dog food recipe, plus organic and GMO-free prepared pet food products.
Many people assume that the mostbiologically appropriate food for dogs is meat, but it s more complicated than that.
Domestic dogs evolved from wolves, who are carnivores, but recent research published in the journal Science shows that as domesticated dogs evolved along with people,
they became omnivores. As people began to settle down and farm dogs came along for the free food.
And it was rarely meat it was scraps of grains and vegetable waste on the dump heaps.
Dogs that developed the ability to digest starch had an advantage, researchers say. Cats are another story they are dedicated carnivores,
as you may have noticed when they show up at the door with half-dead mice and birds as presents.
Yet grains how much and what kind have become a controversial issue in recent years in both human and pet diets.
These days, most complete and balanced pet-food products contain grains according to Marion Nestle, who authored a book on pet food in 2010.
some pet owners worry our dogs and cats who eat commercial pet food might also be gaining too much weight from the grains in it.
That s led many pet owners to look for alternatives. According to Fox, sales of grain-free pet foods jumped some 28 percent between 2011 and 2012 to $1. 4 billion for dog food,
and some $322 million for cat food. Yet it s a small drop in the food bowl.
Some pet owners are even putting pets on raw food diets, which makes Joni Scheftel, state public health veterinarian at the Minnesota Department of health in St paul,
dog food can t contain ingredients pets can t tolerate, like garlic and onions, raisins, grapes and kabocha squash,
For example, dogs can only handle a certain amount of Vitamin d, or they can develop renal and urinary problems from hypercalcimia.
While it s a lot of work to do it right, many owners who cook for their dogs say the proof is in the poop.
And they want to do the same for their companion animals. If you re making better food for yourself,
which makes seed drills and other devices pulled along behind tractors. Planters have changed radically since they were simple boxes that pushed seeds into the soil at fixed intervals.
A batch of these plant pillows were included on the Spacex Dragon cargo ship which went up to the International Space station last month.
The creation of entirely new strains of food animals and plants in order to better address biological and physiological needs.
Also known as cultured meat or tubesteak, it is a flesh product that has never been part of a complete, living animal.
watching touristsdoing the horse thing and the market thing. She dreamed of staying here as an adult.
859 164 Costa Mesa, Calif. 110,322 160 Denton, Texas 115,098 160 Killeen, Texas 127,995 160 Lincoln, Neb. 259,218 156 Lubbock
Kansas 125,902 89 Arvada, Colo. 106,965 88 Downey, Calif. 111,807 88 Pembroke Pines, Fla. 155,578 88 Torrance, Calif. 145,443 88
Cape coral, Fla. 155,405 72 Brownsville, Texas 175,210 71 Mckinney, Texas 131,882 71 Coral Springs, Fla. 122
. 101,339 68 Thousand Oaks, Calif. 126,570 68 Elk Grove, Calif. 151,639 67 Frisco, Texas 116,944 61 Naperville, Ill. 142,143 56
and her husband have named an English bulldog Winston, and she s editorial director at Bibliolabs, a small tech start-up that designs easy-to-navigate e-book lending websites for public libraries.
our kite-surfers head to the beach and then get online later. That s just what they do,
but backers of the technology say the data they collect from identifying insect problems, watering issues, assessing crop yields
Brent Johnson a corn and soybean farmer in Calhoun County in central Iowa, purchased a drone in 2013 for $30, 000 that is already paying dividends on his 900-acre farm.
as long as they get a waiver and fly them within a specific area. We are concerned about any (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) operation that poses a hazard to other aircraft or to people and property on the ground,
and this requires talented people who know how to scale things back in an orderly fashion. 7. Feedback Loopers Those who can devise the best possible feedback loops. 8. Backlashers Ever new technology will have its detractors,
. Impact Minimizers 7. Demand Optimizers 8. Secondary Opportunity Developers 9. Feedback Loopers 10. Construction Teams PRTS have the potential to become the largest infrastructure project the earth has seen ever,
and even build large buildings and luxury homes with custom architectural features that can be changed with only a few clicks of a mouse.
they typically conjure up images of a tractor cresting a hill billowing large plumes of exhaust into the air.
Extinction Revivalists People who revive extinct animals. 146. Robotic Earthworm Drivers The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills
because that is where we have buried our most valuable natural resources. In the future, robotic earthworms will be used to silently mine the landfills
and replace whatever is extracted with high-grade soil. 147. Avatar Designers Next generation avatars will become indistinguishable from humans on a two-dimensional screen.
Unlike plants, of course, bringing animals back to life is still out of reachbut getting closer every year.
More recently, researchers attempted to resurrect the gastric brooding frog, extinct since 1984, using cells frozen in the 1970s.
Although no de-extinction effort has yet been successful in animals seeds are easier to revive.
To put the drug to the test, Quik treated rhesus monkeys with Parkinson s with nicotine. After eight weeks, she reported in a landmark 2007 paper in the Annals of Neurology
the monkeys had half as many tremors and tics. Even more remarkably, in monkeys already receiving L-dopa, the standard drug for Parkinson s,
nicotine reduced their dyskinesias by an additional one-third. Studies of nicotine in humans with Parkinson s are supported now under way
getting mice or other animals hooked on nicotine all by its lonesome is dauntingly difficult.
and Denmarknot to mention Paul Newhouse in Vermonthave published over a dozen studies showing that in animals and humans alike,
Without it, young mice face long-lasting consequences, including several signs of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD).
Although the team only looked at mice, Kaetzel notes that several studies have found that breastfed babies are less likely to develop IBD later in life.
Mice and humans eventually make SIGA for themselves but in our earliest days of life,
When Rogier engineered mutant mice that couldn t produce SIGA in their milk, he found that their pups grew up with peculiar guts.
As a mouse grows up, its gut microbes interact with its own gut cells to create a sealed barrier that keeps foreign material out of the deeper intestinal tissue.
But if newborn mice can t get SIGA from their mothers, their intestinal barriers are porous
When you take them out of an adult mouse and culture them, you ll find no bacteria.
These early changes persisted into adulthood and left the mice permanently susceptible to inflammation, even if they could eventually make SIGA for themselves.
These mice had altered two sides of this triangle, says Kaetzel. They didn t get enough SIGA (a host factor),
where they can be taken up by suckling infants. If pups that don t get SIGA from their mothers have weird bacteria in their lymph nodes,
Worker bees tend to follow predictable daily schedulesthey don t call them drones for nothingleaving the beehive at certain times, foraging for pollen,
Over the past decade, millions of bees have died as entire beehives have turned suddenly into tombs, a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD.
say, by flying a circuitous path to and from the beehive, it may point to exposure to something in the environment,
as bees are social insects that communicate the location of pollen to other bees in the beehive.
and return to their hives. The sensors appear to have no impact on the bee s ability to fly
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