There's no known treatment for sick trees nor any pesticide that is able to kill sufficient numbers of the illness'carrier an insect called the Asian citrus psyllid to totally prevent the disease's spread.
The unique hilarity of men's genital pain has become somewhat of a fixture in certain corners of pop culture from MTV's Jackass to America's Funniest Home Videos.
This playful challenge aspect of humor might go back to primates Polimeni theorizes--the way young chimps hit an alpha male in play to test boundaries.
There's also some evidence that apes enjoy slapstick too. In Inside Jokes Indiana University cognitive scientist Matthew Hurley and his co-authors put forward yet another theory of humor:
. I think that's part of the reason the Jackass guys getting hurt is so funny Mcgraw says.
Cartoon animals aren't human. Because they're not real to us we don't care that they get hurt a notion that's reinforced
#The Odd Way Beavers Impact Climate Changewhen the industrious beaver scurries around being its toothy self cutting down trees
When beavers build a dam impeding the natural flow of water the river begins to overflow more often creating a sediment-rich wetland area known as a beaver meadow.
A new study from Colorado State university geology professor Ellen Wohl finds that these beaver meadows store carbon temporarily sequestering greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
With reductions in the beaver population we're missing out on a whole lot of potential carbon storage.
Between 60 million to 400 million beavers once lived across 60 percent of North america but European settlers substantially reduced the population through hunting and trapping.
When beaver populations relocate and abandon their dams beaver meadows eventually dry up into grasslands and the wood and organic matter buried there begins to decompose
and release carbon dioxide. This suggests that beavers play an important role in keeping the ecosystem resilient against climate change drought and wildfire the study notes.
Wohl found that the abandoned beaver dams she studied made up around 8 percent of the carbon storage in the landscape
and that if beavers were still actively maintaining those dams the number would be closer to 23 percent.
As such wiping out most of the continent's beaver population during pre-Colonial times probably had quite an impact on the climate.
Beavers: Squirreling away our carbon log by log. The study appears in Geophysical Research Letters.
Science via Phys. org Considering we're at a critical carbon deficit right now it's about time to start wiping these pudgy menaces out for good!
Cute Beaver and interesting article too. Critical carbon deficit? WTF are you talking about?@@Frosttty for most of the history of the world we have had significantly more atmospheric carbon than we do now.
The beaver is a destructive animal that needs to be hunted or exterminated. A single beaver can
and will build a dam that will flood and create a pond anywhere from 2 to 10 acres.
Wildlife/insects in this newly created pond area move or die from drowning. As far as the release of carbon dioxide with the European/Colonial settlement of North america and the beaver trapping that occurred from the 1500's to the 1800's-give me a break.
Beavers continue to cut down trees and brush AFTER their dam and ponds are built-yes the destruction exceeds the pond area.
Beaver teeth grow through out their life like most rodents and they must alway chew/grind on something.
Why doesn't the author try to calculate how much forest was saved (carbon dioxide sequestered) by trapping the beavers?
They are pretty good at reducing problems with drought too. We could easily return half the world's farmland to wilderness for Beaver
and other wetland creatures and live longer healthier lives just by adopting a vegetarian diet.
Reading some of these comments it's clear that it's not enough that beavers sequester carbon raise the water table augment the density
and diversity of fish and bird populations trap silt and expand the riparian border. I'm curious
what kind of startling data it will take to convince readers that beavers really are worth a dam!
But the fact is that it takes a lot more than beavers to feed the estimated 7 billion people that populate the earth.
So what does all this have to do with beavers? How many dam beavers would it take to help us out?
And do we even have the room for them on our rivers and streams? And could that land be used instead in better more efficient ways?
Not beavers. Today's magic is tomorrow's technology...aside from dams and environmental'landscaping'they also make great hats and jackets.
On a side note of beavers beaver hat trivial...One of the legends about Daniel Boone is the type of cap
My father Daniel Boone always despised the racoon fur caps and did not wear one himself as he always had a hat.
In order to capture the pigs'decomposition on video four lights flash on for a few minutes every quarter hour (constant light would scare away too many animals changing how the pigs decay.
and SV40 has been proven to cause cancer in animals. Okay that's just old news fair enough let's pretend everything is safe now.
I and many other people aren't having children to be pharmaceutical guinea pigs. And to be honest all this hacking the immune system with vaccines
Don't worry though I won't be sending my un vaccinated feral children to your state ran institutionalized learning facilities to possibly contaminate your pharmaceutical guinea pig state owned children.
The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose the second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk
but the third time someone calls you a horse well then perhaps it's time to go shopping for a saddle.
however with using these monkey kidney cells to both create the original vaccine strains and grow the vaccine in large quantities.
Monkeys contain simian viruses. 11 When the poliovirus was passaged through the monkeys or grown on the monkey kidney cells for production extrane g
#New Dinosaur Species Found In Utah Totally Looks like A Cowholy cow! Scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of dinosaur called Nasutoceratops titusi
At 15 feet long and 2. 5 tons the quadrupedal herbivore belonged to a family called ceratopsids a group of dinos from the Late Cretaceous period that had beaks horns
Raptors became birds...these guys cows...othey got the short end of the evolutionary stick-lolcarter.
With the food chain's bottom tier knocked out most animals would die off quickly but scavengers picking over the dead remains could last until the cold killed them.
Humans could live in submarines in the deepest and warmest parts of the ocean but a more attractive option might be nuclear-or geothermal-powered habitats.
It would indeed take 8 minutes for the Earth to leave its orbit and fly away into space.
and corn (although keeping entire barns warm would be a problem) then butcher these animals for food
or other animals crazed by starvation.</</b>I would estimate that at least 99.99 percent of humans would be dead within a year with people who own livestock
Did cockroaches find lost knowledge? The Giant sequoia?<<B>Evolution favors life but this favoritism is certainly not species specific.</
A Pew survey taken last month bears this out: Android is beating ios in all income brackets except one.
and its tail of gas and dust will grow longer as the ice of its nucleus sublimates more quickly.
With Many of us that fly in them. Father like son both Archimedes and his Father Phidias the Astronomer were well know to all wise men of their day that studied the Heavens Above.
For all that lived there it was WORMWOOD Rev 8: 11 the wood became full of worms and the rivers water no longer sweet and undrinkable.
BLACK DEATH COMET AFTER PASSING THROUGH ITS LONG TAIL OF (COMET NEGRA) 1014ad VERY LARGE TIDAL WAVES THE LARGEST EVER RECORDED FROM IMPACTS ALL OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AFTER PASSING THROUGH ITS LONG TAIL.
ITS TAIL LAST TIME AROUND WAS AT 90 TO 96000000 MILLION MILES LONG EARTH IS ONLY 92960000 MILLION MILES FROM THE SUN. ITS TAIL IS MUCH LONGER EACH TIME IT COMES BACK.
Remember its tail is Millions of miles long. November 28-29 2013 it will speed up as it rounds the SUN goes around it.
when they Do in response to my questions Scottie Ellis a spokeswoman for Long John Silver's emailed
#Taste Receptors Found In Mouse Testicles. Tasticles? Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center made a startling discovery while investigating the sense of taste in mice:
not only do mice have taste receptors on their testicles but any attempt to remove these taste receptors results in infertility.
We're not sure which is weirder. The taste buds on the tongue include lots of taste receptors little bits of protein that bond with other chemicals to detect and signal flavor.
And mice it seems have them in their testicles. The taste receptors have the ability to distinguish broad categories of flavor--sweet sour salty umami bitter.
and deliver information to the brain the mice became completely sterile. Sperm count plummeted spermatozoa failed to develop properly
and the mice completely lost their ability to procreate. Why does this happen? Well the researchers have no idea.
It might just lead to research about mouse testicles. Which is fine too. PNAS via Business Insider It does kind of explain why mouse traps get the mouse in the leaving position.
We thought the mouse was escaping but in fact he was tasting lol. If a mouse is caught wearing a g-string it not really a g-string
but in fact he is flossing lol . i wonder could they be like ph detectors or somthing similar that let the body monitor the environment in the mice's balls?
and when the researchers removed them the body could not detect anything amiss so didn't correct imbalances that killed off the sperm?
It could be as simple as tasting as they run learning where a snack might be for later.
Eating Yogurt Turns Mice into Giant-Balled Seduction Machines...Then the researchers spotted some thing particular about the males:
which endowed them with a certain mouse swagger Erdman says. On measuring the males they found that the testicles of the yogurt consumers were about 5 percent heavier than those of mice fed typical diets alone and around 15 percent heavier than those of junk-eating males...
http://jezebel. com/5908274/eating-yogurt-turns-mice-into-giant+balled-seduction-machines...Oh my god.
Can't we women just have one thing to ourselves without a pair of giant testicles swooping in
and obesity fed a group of 80 mice either a junk food diet or a standard diet supplementing half of each group with yogurt.
As expected the junk-food mice wound up fatter and slower than the standard-diet mice and the mice that ate the standard diet plus yogurt were the slimmest of all.
the scientists noticed that the yogurt-eating mice were incredibly shiny. Sparkle you special little mouse!
Sparkle! But what the researchers didn't anticipate was this: Those mices'balls got HUGE:
Then the researchers spotted some thing particular about the males: they projected their testes outward
which endowed them with a certain mouse swagger Erdman says. On measuring the males they found that the testicles of the yogurt consumers were about 5 percent heavier than those of mice fed typical diets alone and around 15 percent heavier than those of junk-eating males.
Oh my god mouse swagger. Great. So now yogurt OUR YOGURT is some sort of magic machismo superfood for men.
I can't wait to get hit on by aspiring pick-up artists wearing Camelbaks filled with Yoplait under their zebra-print dusters mainly
I will be helpless before the swagger of these sparkling man-mouses! But to be fair the magic yogurt does have some effect on woman-mice too:
Conversely females that ate the yogurt diets gave birth to larger litters and weaned those pups with greater success. So once
I get seduced by the Mystery Mouse I'll be able to successfully whelp hella babies wearing tiny fur top-hats and steampunk novelty goggles.
and perhaps all or most mammals wouldn't be a strech. I know it's not tested and proven
In other words could mouse and possibly a human male contraceptive be as simple a cutting a nerve
Head transplants have been done before most famously with rhesus monkeys in a 1970 procedure. But joining up a pair of central nervous systems proved too difficult to crack;
in the case of the rhesus monkeys many organs became functional but the animals were paralyzed from the neck down due to an inability to properly connect the spine.
Last week researchers at Case Western University and the Cleveland Clinic managed to restore significant control in rats with spinal cords cut as they would be in a head transplant (though this study didn't actually involve head transplants.
The surgery was similar to the 1970 procedure: bring the temperature of the body down as far as possible induce cardiac arrest
The spinal cord is reconnected by creating a sort of scaffolding made of nerve fibers from the rat's rib cage
After six months the rats regained bladder control though they never regained the ability to walk.
Small frogs organs and embryos are able to survive freezing. However mammals are too big but
what if in parts they could be made smaller to survive freezing. Then one mouse could conceive a larger mousses embryo and so on until it s large enough to be engineered to give birth to a pig.
Then a genetically altered pig gives birth to a chimp and finally from chimp to humans.
Using Saturn s magnetic field can only propel a few grams at a time but approaching increments of light speed.
Even still this is the same problem as resurrecting the Thylacine or Wooly Mammoth both being worked on today.
Both expected to eventually work. Also keep in mind that pigs may soon produce custom human pancreases in the near future other organs to follow.
but this only needs to work long enough life span to give birth the next larger mammal.
Or Illegalone way poachers get the big elephants they want is by shooting a baby elephant first.
The young animal won't have a lot of ivory on it but the kill draws in the mother whom the poachers then shoot too as Scientific American reported in 2009.
which elephants and every other living creature on earth incorporated into their bodies in unusually high levels during the Cold War era.
whether a piece of ivory comes from an elephant that died before or after the United nations banned products made from elephant parts in 1989.
The tool's creators hope it will help officials prosecute those who harvest and sell ivory illegally.
In spite of the international ban poachers kill about 25000 elephants each year according to the conservation groups. About 423000 African elephants live in the wild today according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's estimates.
The tool also works for determining the age and thus the legal status of rhinoceros horns
which are poached because some Asian customers believe they cure a variety of ailments. The belief comes from traditional Chinese medicine NPR reports
although China removed references to rhino horns from traditional medical books after banning the trade in 1993.
Animals then get that carbon from eating plants or eating animals that eat plants. Other research groups have used the Cold war spike in carbon-14 to figure out the birthdates of human brain cells fat cells and teeth.
The ivory group tested many animal tissues this way including hippopotamus teeth elephant tail hairs and blue monkey hairs in addition to elephant tusks and rhino horns.
For tissues formed after 1955 the scientists are able to pin down a death date that's within 0. 3 to 1. 3 years of the animal's actual death.
For tissues formed before 1955 the technique is much more uncertain perhaps getting a death date wrong by more than 17 years.
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a dog being made to wag it's tale by giving it a bone...very funny. 0bama promises to'work with anyone'who agrees with him
When farmers encounter plant pests their first response would be to kill it by using pesticides herbicides or antibiotics.
I have the eating habits of an urban raccoon and barely touch fruits or veg.
One long-haired hippy who smells like dog ***and never cuts his fingernails drinks only Mountain Dew 1 liter sizes.
#A History Of Daring Red panda Escapesthe red panda looks like a fluffy raccoon-cat frolics in the snow like an arctic otter
What's not so well-known is that red pandas are also master escape artists. So we shouldn't be surprised that Rusty the red panda made a break for it last night from the National Zoo.
Red pandas may look like terrestrial animals like raccoons but they're arborial--they're awkward and clumsy on the ground
which is super cute but misleading. They're designed for life in the trees with super-sharp claws for climbing.
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums notes that to prevent depression red pandas have to be given items to climb on.
Provide climbing apparatus for older animals it reads but beware: red pandas are escape artists. They might not be great jumpers
but that's about their only weakness as far as escaping goes; they're excellent swimmers as well as climbers.
That plus an energetic curious and playful personality and metabolism makes them one of the best and most frequent jailbreakers at the zoo.
Here is a timeline of red panda jailbreaks. Back in 1978 Rotterdam was the site of the first known red panda escape.
It also spawned what's called the red panda effect in psychology and cryptozoology circles. Though the red panda was found (dead unfortunately)
just as newspapers publicized the escape Rotterdam natives spent the next year or so calling the zoo insisting they'd seen a red panda.
The red panda effect refers to the way the brain fills in the blanks--you see what you expect to see in other words.
If you're expecting to see a red panda you see a red panda even if it's just a dirty raccoon.
Skipping ahead a bit in 2005 a red panda named Babu managed to escape from what we assume is a dreary home in the Birmingham Nature Center.
Babu had made allegedly several escape attempts before finally slipping out of his pen. He was found in a tree in a nearby patch of forest 60 feet above the ground four days after escaping.
A year-old red panda named Yin made a name for herself back in 2007 by escaping twice in a single month.
Red pandas you see are spectacular climbers much more agile than their bumbling zaftig gait would imply
and Yin's enclosure was in a heavily wooded area. Her first escape was in broad daylight
while surrounded by onlookers--she emerged from a cave for feeding and simply ran up a tree
and hopped out of the pen. So the zoo stuck a lightly electrified fence over the top of the enclosure thinking that would do the trick.
It um didn't. A few weeks later Yin leapt onto a branch that overhung the electric fence
She's a character said the zoo's director of development. In one of the longest escapes ever documented a mother red panda
and her cub managed to escape from a Scotland zoo and survive on the lam for more than two months Pichu (the mother)
and Isla (the cub) darted out of their enclosure when a springtime storm damaged the enclosing walls.
Pichu was discovered about two miles away from the zoo up on a tree branch by a very surprised farmer.
Back in 2009 nobody even noticed that a red panda vanished from its pen. It made its way over to the nearby and leafy Regents Park where it was spotted by park security at 3 a m. just hanging out on a tree branch.
Apparently it took awhile for zoo staffers to bring it down; it eventually took a tranquilizer dart
while park-goers stared up at the best animal to ever be found in a London park.
Last year at the Dresden Zoo a red panda managed to get out of its pen and climb high up into a nearby tree.
Since red pandas escape so often zoos that house them typically have a procedure for getting them down from the trees they like to hide out in
At Dresden they spray the red pandas with hoses which motivates them to climb down so the zookeepers can nab them.
But in the case of this particular animal it surprised everyone by falling 30 feet down to the ground where it suffered a concussion
Might do well to come up with another way to convince escaped animals to come down Dresden. At around 6 p m. on June 23rd Rusty the red panda somehow made his escape from the National Zoo.
Nobody's quite sure how; this is another instance of zookeepers arriving at the zoo and noticing a red panda's absence
though Thinkprogress alleges that budget cuts may have reduced staffing. Rusty less than a year old caused a huge stir with his disappearance sparking a citywide panda-hunt
and forcing millions of horrible tweet-jokes and dozens of fake Twitter accounts. He was found this afternoon in a bush not far from the zoo was brought safely back
and seems to be doing fine. my best friend's sister-in-law makes $67/hour on the computer.
She has been without a job for ten months but last month her payment was $18998 just working on the computer for a few hours.
I'd consider some sort of punishment for the websites that keep spamming this site. maybe some sort of spider that answers all the spam ads in annoying and useless ways s
Groggily cursing the AI that is always promised but never quite arrives I boarded the maglev train.
or Venus flytrap as it doesn't actually digest animal matter. Instead scientists believe that the spikes trap animals with thick fur like sheep
which then starve to death fall to the ground and decompose at the base of the plant providing highly rich localized food for the plant.
I feel so sad for the animals it catches...I am not secretly eavesdropping on you.
I would call a lion hunting a gazelle evil. It's merely another aspect of nature. dsdoan You point is taken well in the same way of their exist a ying
Instead the aim is to induce one species to grow an organ of the other not a combination of two species. He's done this with mice and rats;
back in 2010 he successfully induced a mouse embryo to grow a rat pancreas by using rat stem cells.
and also involves some genetic manipulation and almost certainly some inhumane treatment of animals. How happy are those pancreas-less piglets really?
The right amount of sodium ions present at a wound site allows for regenerative effects similar to those found in a Salamander.
and keep it in a vase for a few days but you can't exactly do the same with say a caterpillar leg.
Those veggies that were exposed to light-dark cycles were more resistant to insects and produced natural chemicals normally made for plant defense that may be healthful for humans.
The glucosinolates seemed to discourage caterpillars from munching on leaves. Plants grown in light-dark cycles that matched the caterpillars'got munched on less than plants grown in light-dark cycles that didn't match the caterpillars'.
'That's because the out-of-sync plants thought it was night when the insects thought it was day so the plants weren't making as much glucosinolates as they would during the day
but the insects were awake and eating away. The biologists then tried the same experiment but instead of using whole plants they used circular discs cut out from cabbage leaves.
It turned out that the discs even though they were cut off from the rest of the plant still made glucosinolates in day-night cycles
Caterpillars ate 20 percent more of out-of-sync cabbage leaves than they did of in-sync cabbage leaves Caterpillars also ate more of cabbage leaves that were kept in constant light
The hungry hungry caterpillar-repelling effect worked for about a week after the cabbage was harvested the biologists discovered.
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