A home computer that could switch back and forth between touch mode and keyboard-and-mouse mode oeimagnet:
the entire dashboard features a touchscreen interface and an exterior clearly reminiscent of Apples signature computer mouse.
#Why Elephants Are Afraid of Ants and Not Mice Elephants are terrified more of ants than mice.
Mice are supposed to strike terror into the hearts of elephants-at least if Disney cartoons are to be believed.
But Dumbos tormentors are actually even smaller, scientists claim. Researchers have discovered that ants are the bane of elephants lives,
with the giants of the African savannah steering clear of trees infested with them just in case they crawl up their sensitive trunks.
The experts who made the discovery believe ants act as bodyguards for some plants to keep trampling elephants at bay.
The idea that elephants fear mice has long been a staple of cartoons, and features in the 1941 Disney classic Dumbo.
animal behaviourists say there is no evidence of rodent-phobia among any mammal. The discovery that elephants dislike ants came
when Dr Palmer and colleague Dr Jacob Goheen noticed elephants avoiding a species of acacia tree in the Kenyan plains.
The trees are found across the African savanna and are devoured normally and trampledby hungry elephants.
However, they stayed away from acacia drepanolobium trees if they were home to guardian ants.
The elephants avoided those trees like a kid avoids broccoli, Dr Palmer said. It seems that elephants simply do not like ants swarming up the insides of their trunks
and I cant say I blame them. An elephants trunk is a truly remarkable organ,
but also appears to be their Achilles heel when it comes to squaring off with an angry ant colony.
Elephants have such large appetites they can soon convert woody areas into open grassland. A big issue in east Africa is elephants damaging crops,
which is one reason elephants have been harassed and sometimes killed, he added. Via Daily mail Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati n
#Tips on How to Germ-Proof Your Kitchen From Scary Foodborne Illnesses Most people cant help
4. Coyotes for eating cows, sheep and other livestock, and preying on household pets in suburban areas;
Rounding out the bottom five are killer bees, starlings, mountain pine beetles, brown tree snakes and Asian mongooses.
Kind of like the Vaquita porpoise in Mexico. Who should win out when humans and animals collide?
Youd shoot a bear that was attacking your child. But many of these 10 threaten more human livelihood than human life.
#Mysterious Bearded Antelope Discovered in Kenya oebearded Antelope Photo by Paola Torchio Veteran wildlife photographer Paolo Torchio made a bizarre discovery while visiting Kenyas Masai Mara
He initially thought the animal was a dog and oewas wondering, what is this dog doing?
he said. oeand when it came out from the grass, that was a surprise. The animal has all the markings of a Thomsons gazelle. oei would say its a younger female,
The number of B. napus plants in each sample plot was counted and one plant was collected
The team found B. napus at nearly half of the 288 sites tested. Of these, 80%had at least one herbicide-resistant transgene (41%were resistant to Roundup and 40%resistant to Liberty.
#Insects Sense Danger on Mammals Breath When plant-eating mammals such as goats chomp on a sprig of alfalfa,
When plant-eating mammals such as goats chomp on a sprig of alfalfa, they could easily gobble up some extra protein in the form of insects that happen to get in their way.
like the charger and the earphones. The only difference is the price about $100, with a little bargaining.
These may look like a bulldog but its all due to deformities, just like in human beings, he explained. via Arbroath Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati n
Under Mathiles direction, Iams became a world leader in premium dog and cat nutrition. In 1999, the Mathile family sold Iams to Procter & gamble for $2. 3 billion.
Fans voted for Jessica to go stag and thats how Reinbold-Gee wrote it. Textnovel, which is funded by contributions from its own members,
On Scribd. com, writers and digital packrats are building a huge swap meet for written works of every length, many
Despite this, the Conservatives have decided to axe the watchdog that was set up a decade ago to regulate the junk-food companies.
Steve Hundley dumped his Jaguar convertible. He stopped taking Baltic cruises. And he stopped buying his wife pricey jewelry.
500 for an outdoor artisan pizza oven. oewe dont need the Jaguar or cruises to the Baltic,
Experts there gave it an official seal as the worlds sweetest. Honeydew melons like this have a sugar content of 20. 2g per 100g of fruit.
said Kathie Starkweather of the Lyon, Neb. -based Center for Rural affairs. oeif you start to lose something key like a grocery store,
Neb.,, a town of 132 where the grocery store closed 10 years ago, community leaders got a $75,
said Kathie Starkweather of the Lyon, Neb. -based Center for Rural affairs. oeif you start to lose something key like a grocery store,
Neb.,, a town of 132 where the grocery store closed 10 years ago, community leaders got a $75,
Anyone who thinks it would be easy to get rich selling marijuana in a state where its legal should spend an hour with Ravi Respeto, manager of the Farmacy, an upscale dispensary here that offers Strawberry Haze, Hawaiian Skunk and other strains
Bubble gum, Sour Kush, Gods Gift, Grand Daddy Purp and Blue Skunk. oethis will throw you for a loop,
since a restaurant moved off the premises. oethis used to be a hot dog place called Whats Up Dog
says Pierre Werner, Dr. Reefer himself. oewhen Whats Up Dog closed, I moved in the very next day,
US watchdog the Food and Drug Administration is currently considering whether the GM Atlantic salmon, called Aquadvantage, is safe to eat.
But despite the creation of a GM mouse as early as the 1980s, the idea of eating modified animals does not appeal to the public.
#10 Unbelievable Animal Friendships This macaque was rescued from Neilingding Island in China after his mother abandoned him
Take this baby macaque, abandoned by its mother and close to death until it became best friends with a pigeon.
The macaque is thriving and the pair are inseparable. But they arent the only tear-jerking, unbelievable friendships youll find in the animal world:
From a sheep that brought a baby elephant out of a deep depression to natural enemies that snuggle down together for every nap,
Who says that orangutans and tigers, dogs and deer, cats and birds cant all be friends somehow?
From a sheep that brought a baby elephant out of a deep depression to natural enemies that snuggle down together for every nap,
these 10 heart-wrenching relationships are incredible and unforgettable. The first time Albert the sheep met Themba the elephant at the Shamwari Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in South africa,
he didnt exactly roll out the welcome mat: The baby elephant, orphaned at six months old when his mother fell down a cliff,
chased his new friend Albert until the sheep took refuge in a shelter for 12 hours.
Cats and birds are known not for their peaceful relations (just ask Tweety and Sylvester), but Snowy and Gladys are the exception to the rule.
when she became the only hen to survive a fox attack on her farm in Suffolk, England,
she found an unlikely ally in Snowy the cat. The owners saw the cat washing the chick and keeping her clean
and when it was time to let her back outside, Gladys refused to go without Snowy.
Pigs and tigers seem like theyd be natural enemies, but in captivity thats not always the case:
These photos from the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand show a tiger nursing a litter of piglets
(and this tiger herself was raised by a pig). But while the process isnt unheard of, this set of images brings up bigger issues:
Mi-Lu and his sibling are believed to be the first two Pere David deer born in captivity
to raise her other fawn (it sounds harsh, but scientists think the rarity of deer twins meant that the mother didnt know hot to take care of a second baby).
The two resident dogs at Knowsley Safari Park where Mi-Lu was born Geoffrey and Kipper stepped in to help raise him,
going for walks and snuggling as a group, until the deer was introduced back into the herd. Even a 130 year age difference cant come between these BFFS:
Owen the baby hippopotamus and Mzee the giant tortoise have been friends since Owen was rescued from a reef where he was stranded during the 2004 tsunami in the Indian ocean
and brought to Lafarge Ecosystems sanctuary in Kenya. The frightened hippo ran right over to the surprised tortoise
and hid behind him just as he would have hidden behind his mother and, since then, the two have been walking
When this baby chihuahua lost his mother right after she gave birth the staff at Arizonas Halo Animal Rescue had the impossible job of trying to find another nursing dog to take over and with no dogs available,
they turned to the next best thing: a cat. The feline was already nursing four kittens that were about the same size as the puppy,
so rescue workers introduced the chihuahua into the litter. A week later, the dog was doing well,
gaining weight, and nearly ready to be adopted. This mama cat had an even more unusual nursing applicant:
a baby red panda. After its mother left, the panda joined a group of kittens being raised by a housecoat at the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam,
says MSNBC. While the endangered animal would have lived for about three months on a liquid diet before switching to bamboo and fruit,
the panda tragically died after choking on milk a few weeks after the cat adopted it.
Youre not likely to find a wild Sumatran tiger thats friends with a wild orangutan,
but at the Taman Safari animal hospital in Indonesia, abandoned primates Nia and Irma have no problem snuggling with Dema and Manis month-old tigers.
Both species are endangered but in the sanctuary they enjoy the same activities as their wild brothers and sisters:
cat naps for the tigers and rope swinging for the orangutans. Christian the lion wasnt found in the wild:
He was bought at Harrods in the 1960s by John Rendell and Ace Bourke, who raised him in their flat until he outgrew the tiny living space
and was released into the wild. But nine months after Christian took over a pride of his own,
his former owners traveled to Kora for one last goodbye and found a lion that was as gentle and kind to them as hed been as a cub.
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#Mexican Investments in U s. Create Jobs, Taking over U s. Brands Mexico city-based Bimbo bought the U s. baked-goods operations of Weston Foods taking over 22 industrial bakeries and 4, 000 distribution routes.
But without a federal or state inspection seal, or a special exemption allowed by some states,
or Food Lion or from some anonymous slaughterhouse that stuffed it full of antibiotics so it wouldnt get sick,
But without a federal or state inspection seal, or a special exemption allowed by some states,
or Food Lion or from some anonymous slaughterhouse that stuffed it full of antibiotics so it wouldnt get sick,
Erotic symbolism is used often to cover up the fact that the cat is indeed naked...Even though it was pretty damn ingenious,
Early in the morning, donkey-ridden cart full of harvest transporting to the town, while a few of the children walking toward the different direction to school...
Bad temper donkey did not want to work with the bull, such uncoordinated working force. This is the first time I saw such kind of farming method
The poorer farmer used horse to take the place of donkey. later I knew that
dogs bark and the muezzin leads the call to prayer. In front of the hut, the mother is cooking maize porridge over an open fire,
white dog or simply white whiskey is the liquor of the moment, bringing together whiskey geeks, home distillers and high-end mixologists, all of
None of the luxury-tinged language that surrounds its grown-up siblings, like bourbon or scotch, applies to the dog.
Kentuckys Buffalo Trace (one of the oldest and most admired distillers in the U s.)makes White Dog,
Deers, Black bucks, Peacocks, Blue bulls, Chinkaras, are some of the animals that you would find roaming around their settlements.
Where do you think the cat flap ranks on his list of accomplishments? Rumor has it that Newton invented the cat flap
when his beloved pet kept nudging the door to his lab open while he was working on light experiments,
But he loved his cat and didnt want to shut her out of his lab or trap her inside.
Allegedly, when the cat had kittens, he cut a smaller door for them to go through
the intruder smashed a plate glass window of a dessert shop in Lincoln, Neb. Inside, destruction.
Wild turkeys are following in the footsteps of deer an iconic American species that was nearly wiped out,
A smaller hazard The small size of wild turkeys makes them less of a road hazard than 200-pound deer.
once hitting two deer on the same trip. This was his first turkey. When he tells other truckers,
was surprised. oeive seen car versus bear, car versus deer, car versus cat, but this is the first time Ive seen car versus turkey,
wild asses, hartebeests, oryxes, ibexes, dorcas and onagers. Some kites cleverly exploited low spots in the landscape to lure animals into the unseen killing pit. oeindeed,
Life-sized models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold.
and one camel. Visitors on the first day were stunned. Its beyond comprehension, said Mary Louise Starosciak,
and appointed a watchdog for the IPCC. The Interacademy Council a coalition of 15 national academies of science, will review the work of the IPCC by this fall.
however, Mcintyres supporters eventually included people who know how to secretly hack into computers and steal data.
#Amazing Tree house Hotels Cedar Creek Treehouse From The swiss Family Robinsons massive forest hideaway to the Berenstein Bears oeno Boys Allowed backyard version,
like mammals and birds, said Donoghue. Why the mismatch between different approaches to dating the tree of life?
adding that wearers did not have to worry about real monkeys because the underwear did not smell like a banana.
#Sundaland Clouded Leopard Newly Identified Species Filmed for First time A newly identified Sundaland clouded leopard,
caught on camera for the first time ever, stalking through the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Borneo The Sundaland clouded leopard,
a newly identified and little understood species of big cat in Borneo, has been filmed for the first time. The leopard, a healthy-looking animal a metre long (3 feet) and weighing about 40 kilograms (90 pounds) was caught on video at night at the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Malaysian Borneos Sabah
state. oewhat surprised us was clouded that while leopards are very elusive cats, this one was scared not at all,
said Azlan Mohamed, a field scientist with University Sabah Malaysia. oedespite our powerful spot lights and the roar of our vehicles engine,
he told AFP. oeit is rare to see the big cat in the wild. These cats are usually shy of humans,
it was caught by chance we it on video. The Sundaland clouded leopard was classified as a new species through genetic studies several years ago
and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature designated it as endangered in 2008.
Previously all clouded leopards living across the Southeast Asian mainland were thought to be the same species. Azlan said the Sundaland species is the biggest predator on Borneo,
However, Azlan said the researchers found the remains of a samba deer which had been killed by one of the big cats.
Article continues below This big cat can be found in lowland rainforest on Borneo and in small numbers in areas of logged forest.
But environmentalists say that the clouded leopard faces the threat of poaching while rapid deforestation and the creation of rubber and oil-palm plantations in Borneo is destroying its natural habitat.
is also home to four other threatened wild cats. Sixty cameras traps placed in Dermakot also captured images of the marbled cat
flat-headed cat, leopard cat and Borneo bay cat, all smaller in size than the Sundaland clouded leopard. oethese small cats feed on rats and mice,
he said. Azlan said the research team was oesurprised to find all five cat species in Dermakot and four of them in the neighbouring Tangkulap Forest Reserve.
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#Bees Prefer Nectar with Caffeine and Nicotine Bees are attracted to nectar which are laced with caffeine
The grass, Brachypodium distachyon, can be used by plant scientists the way other researchers use lab mice to study human disease as a model organism that is similar to
life forms from bacteria to whales is wrong. Apparently, the mysterious oe3/4 law of metabolism proposed by Max Kleiber in 1932,
explained theoretically in Science in 1997 and described in a 2000 essay in Nature as oeextended to all life forms from bacteria to whales is just plain wrong. oeactually,
assume a spherical mouse. OK, now compare the resting metabolic rates of these sorry animals. Since the point of resting metabolism is to keep a warm-blooded animal warm (and alive!
with the lowest necessary energy use, both geometry and common sense suggest that the cow would have a lower rate of metabolism per cell than the mouse:
the mouse, with more surface area relative to its volume, would lose heat faster than our cartoon cow.
In 1883, a German physiologist named Max Rubner measured the heat output of some dogs ranging from a few pounds to nearly seventy.
He plotted these numbers to show that the dogs metabolic rates were proportional to their mass with an exponent of 2/3 just like the geometry of an imaginary spherical beast would suggest.
the body weight of 13 mammals, ranging from rats to cows, against their resting metabolism. Strangely, the line traced through the data points did not conform to Rubners observation nor common sense.
Over the next decades, hundreds of animals resting metabolisms were measured or estimated, from microbes to whales.
Dr Seralini concluded that rats which ate the GM maize had statistically significant signs of liver and kidney damage.
and urine of rats fed the maize for three months, compared to rats given a non-GM diet.
The higher hormone levels suggest that animals livers and kidneys are not working properly. Female rats fed one of the strains also had higher blood sugar levels
and raised levels of fatty substances caused triglycerides, Dr Seralini reported in the International Journal of Microbiology.
It might look like one of those cheap extendable gorilla-head grippers but dig deeper and youll find that the boys from TT have done their homework.
mammals and vascular plants all reach maximum diversity in Yasunã. The study is published in the open-access scientific journal PLOS ONE. oewe have documented so far 596 bird species occurring in Yasuni,
and mellow. 5. Poached Rhinoceros Horns In Eastern asia, ground rhino horns have long been considered a widespread cure for many ailments,
including erectile dysfunction. Aside from the obvious allusions to potency, the source of the rhino horns power is its scarcity.
Humans love to attribute special powers to rare objects, and aphrodisiacs are no exception. But, unfortunately for the rhinos, their horns are becoming an increasingly rare commodity,
making them seem all the more powerful. Naturally, the rhinos vigorously dispute this claim and are seen often campaigning for people to eat more white tiger penises,
which are credited with similar erotic qualities and are equally rare. After surviving 50 million years
the rhinoceros is on the verge of extinction fact that can certainly be blamed in part on poachers seeking the high-value horns.
But, as of yet, the only scientific reason to consume a rhino horn for any purpose,
sexual or otherwise, is the nutritional benefit. Rhino horns are an excellent source of calcium,
but then again, so are Tums. While a daily supplement is not wildly exotic or erotic, think of the many African birds that will have nowhere to perch
if the rhino is gone. Besides, sneaking endangered animal parts through customs is no way to live.
Similar procedures are recommended in the Kama sutra. Ingredients for such practices include honey, camels milk and lavender.
but was horrified to see that the features of the lambs snout bore a striking resemblance to a human face. oeive seen mutations with cows and sheep before.
Local residents said that even dogs were afraid to approach the bizarre animal. The locals burned the body of the little goat
The wolf s knocking at the door.##Mr. Azevedo also said that retailers should do their part by lowering their markup on organic milk
It also plans to sell a line of yogurt mixed with vegetables for dogs. For us to provide ourselves with enough security and enough milk
Fat cats who owe it to their grandfathers are not getting all of the gains, #Peter Lindert told me.
and Financial times columnist Martin Wolf, and leading them in discussion of matters ranging from global financial imbalances to the war in Afghanistan.
arguably the most coveted status symbol isn t a yacht, a racehorse, or a knighthood;
Some animals that are afflicted sometimes include cows, snakes, lizards, turtles, dogs, cats and chickens. This past week, a two-headed pig with one eye, was born on Xiao Jintu s pig farm,
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#Grains of rice genetically modified to produce human blood Blood protein from genetically modified rice could ease demand for blood donations.
however, that the protein produced by the genetically modified rice was identical to Human Serum albumin found naturally in Blood tests on rats also showed it did not produce any adverse reactions.
They also treated rats suffering from cirrhosis with the protein and showed it was effective at relieving the symptoms
but so far they have validated only it in rats. The real test will be to show it is safe in humans,
a golden retriever in Kansas who adopted 3 white Bengal tiger cubs and nursed them as her own.
and their dog Isabella stepped right up...2.)Rhodesian ridgeback dog, adopted an abandoned potbellied piglet in Aug 2009.
Katjinga s owner, Roland Adam, found the piggy alone and cold and brought it to his 8-year-old dog...
3.)Pixie still had milk after giving birth to her 1st litter of pups few months earlier,
and she accepted the 3 squirrels without any qualms in Mar 2010. She nursed the homeless squirrels for 5 weeks at her NC home,
then an animal rehabilitation specialist carried on raising them till they were ready to be freed...
4.)The young elk pictured here was delivered from a flooding river by a farmer in South korea in July 2009.
This female dog eagerly adopted the elk and started breastfeeding and guarding him...5.)Chia, a Pomeranian in Emporia, Kan.
Allow 4 abandoned kitties nurse from her in Aug 2000. Chia, who had a 2-week-old puppy of her own at the time,
adopted the parentless kittens after they were found by her owner s boyfriend...6.)Koko the gorilla has loved cuddling
and nurturing kittens since 1984. Gorilla Foundation volunteer Janis Turner arranged to have a litter of orphaned kittens visit Koko in September 2009,
and Koko became especially enamored with a tiny orange kitten named Tigger, pictured here. Something fascinated her about Tigger,
#7.)Three baby pigs rest next to their adoptive mother, Sai Mai, an 8-year-old tiger, at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand in January 2010.8.)
) Wild long-tailed macaque monkey in Bali, Indonesia. He stunned animal lovers around the world
The monkey was spotted in a forest protectively nuzzling and grooming the ginger kitten, making sure no harm came to it.
The extraordinary sight was captured by amateur photographer Anne Young while on a holiday to the Monkey Forest Park in Bali s Ubud region...
9.)A Siamese cat named Amanda, owned by Debbie Girting of Beaver, Pa. is shown here nursing her two newborn kittens along with an orphaned litter of puppies in March 2010.10.
The Happy Families#exhibits at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand certainly aren t run-of-the-mill.
including families of baby pigs adopted by tiger mothers and families of tiger cubs adopted by mother pigs.
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