These problems mean that the longest survival time for pig organs in nonhuman primates to date ranges from a few days for lungs to around six to eight months for hearts,
headquartered in Santa fe, one of the nation s biggest cattle and horse-breeding operations. The fabled King Ranch of South Texas comes in seventh at 911,215 acres.
Thanksgiving Cat is grouchy#.#but still thankful...If Superman decided to play soccer rather than do comic books,
#Copy cat...We ve all been taught that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
Nothing say the fall season is here#quite like a frisky Bulldog running through a pumpkin patch...
#Most women are experts at knowing how to activate the monkey-part of the male brain.
They even use live monkeys to do their research...If this truly improves her looks, perhaps she should consider wearing a mask#an extra thick mask to keep the ugliness from seeping through...
Whenever I see floating whales, I instantly turn around to see where the X-men are standing...
while also asking national watchdogs like the UKS Food Standards Agency to investigate the issue.
In addition to the research project, the EU is also asking national watchdogs including the UK Foods Standards Agency to investigate current insect-eating habits to decide which,
In 2008, the shuttle Endeavour astronauts were happy to serve as guinea pigs for a variety of new dishes,
Recreational Area Governors Mansion State Historic Park Gray whale Cove State Beach Greenwood State Beach Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park Hendy
Standish-Hickey State Recreational Area Sugarloaf Ridge State Park Tomales Bay state Park Tule Elk State Natural Reserve Turlock Lake State
Adair State Park Beaver Dunes State Park saved! Brushy Lake State Park saved! Lake Eucha State Park Wah-Sha-She State Park saved!
Natures greatest masterpiece is the elephant. Now if only we can change their political standing...
One tired bear...To her, life was a never-ending stream of irrational obsessions...All he wanted was to make an impact.
and totes to coffee mugs and dog leashes. And life sure is good now for Bert
The companys future prospects have been damaged further by the Japan earthquake and the hack of its large Playstation Network.
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#Glass of milk can contain a cocktail of up to 20 chemicals Scientists found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk.
The trend has become so popular a company online even sells feather extensions for dogs.
A package of the most popular fly tying hackle for hair extensions, a black and white striped feather called grizzly saddle
Brandi Wheeler, 16, was next. Theres only one other girl at Borah High school in Boise who has the feather extensions
Study Study shows drinking donkeys milk is good for you. Cleopatra would bathe in it as part of her beauty regime.
Milk from donkeys, which was still being drunk in Victorian times, contains less fat and is more nutritious than cows milk.
Researchers have found that drinking donkeys milk could be a good way to lose weight and protect your heart.
The study at the University of Naples, Italy, compared the effect of donkey milk compared to cows milk in diet and health.
and donkey milk provided the same amount of energy but that the latter caused more weight gain as it raised metabolism.
Rodents that were given the donkey milk also showed lower levels of triglycerides, unhealthy fats that affect the heart,
Mosquito#An estimated 2-3 million fatalities a year Venomous Snakes#An estimated 50,000-125,000 fatalities a year Deer-An estimated 2, 000-4, 000
Big cats (Lions Tigers, Leopards, etc)# An estimated 800 fatalities a year. Crocodiles#An estimated 600-800 fatalities a year.
Bees#An estimated 400-600 fatalities a year. Elephants#An estimated 300-500 fatalities a year.
For those of you who think in groups of 10, you can add hippos with estimated 100-150 fatalities a year
and that most overrated of evil sea creatures, the shark, with somewhere around 100 fatalities a year.
the deer. On a recent trip to South dakota my wife and I had the misfortune of colliding with a deer late one evening.
While I had just enough time to stomp on my brakes and wear a flat side onto my tires,
it wasnt quite enough time to avoid the deer that appeared out of nowhere in the darkness.
The deer apparently had no way of intellectually connecting the engine noise, screeching tires, and blazing headlights with the coming danger.
The U s. Department of transportation estimates that the white-tailed deer alone kills around 130 Americans each year simply by causing car accidents.
the predator#deer had a banner year, causing 211 human deaths in car wrecks. In the U s. there are about 1. 5 million deer/vehicle collisions annually,
resulting in 29,000 human injuries and more than $1 billion in insurance claims in addition to the death toll.
Deer also carry the ticks that transmit Lyme disease to about 13,000 people each year. Economic damage to agriculture, timber,
and landscaping by deer totals more than $1. 2 billion a year. Yes one of the worlds most dangerous animals in the world is the lowly deer.
This is one of those facts that if told to people living in the 1800s, they would have found it quite amusing.
deer are an animal that is not capable of learning. Evolutionary theory would lead us to believe that given the confrontational nature of deer and cars,
that some amount of learning should have been passed down from one generation to the next. Indeed there is empirical evidence of this being true with birds
But the same is not true for deer. So the question becomes#are deer incapable of learning,
or have we simply not found the proper systems or techniques for training them? Speculating on this notion,
if we were able to increase the intelligence of deer just slightly, then logically they would become aware of the dangers of running in front of cars.
so it seems reasonable that deer must simply be missing something. In fact, if we push this line of thinking to the comical extreme
and we increase deer intelligence a few steps beyond collision avoidance, the deer-crossing signs found many places along roads could be rotated 90 degrees
and changed from deer-crossing#signs to car-crossing#signs for the deer to read.
Perhaps this comes across as little more than an amusing idea but it brings us to a much larger topic to consider#animal intelligence.
In the 1970s, Herbert Terrace, a psychologist at Columbia University, trained a chimp named Nim Chimpsky to recognize 125 different sign language gestures
Circus trained animals such as horses, elephants, and tigers have learned to respond to human voice commands.
In fact most dogs are able to display a high degree of perception from being immersed in the communication of their owners.
But is it possible to raise this existing level of intelligence even further As an example,
Did you know that tigers could climb trees? Neither did the chicken...Tragically hilarious...The other side of the fence is always greener,
and the dog begins#..#The bomb-shelter hotel is a big hit among survivalists...Theres nothing quite like freshly grown toad straight from the garden...
and the moose isnt talking...Finally, a ride specially designed for people without Social security...Troll food.
whether they might ultimately share the fate of Joe Camel, the cartoon figure used to promote Camel cigarettes that was phased out amid allegations that it was meant to entice children to smoke.
Our proposal really covers all forms of marketing to kids, and the product packaging and the images and themes on the cereal boxes have tremendous appeal to kids,
said the company can detect which customers are tethering their iphones to other devices using an unauthorized hack;
whether or how AT&T challenges the creators of the hacks. Because of its technology, AT&T is more vulnerable than Verizon to unlocking,
#Wind Turbines Contributing to Decline of Bat Population Wind turbines are a major threat to bats.
Researchers urged policy-makers not to wait before addressing the issue of bat decline. Not acting is not an option because the life histories of these flying,
nocturnal mammals#characterised by long generation times and low reproductive rates#mean that population recovery is unlikely for decades or even centuries,
According to the researchers, a single colony of 150 big brown bats in Indiana ate almost 1. 3 million potentially damaging insects a year.
Dogs see limited color, but apparently their owners dont like buying dull, gray chow. Now, federal regulators are reexamining artificial ingredients they have deemed long to be prompted safe
by scientific studies suggesting that color additives might be linked to hyperactivity in children and other health effects.
the FDA banned Red No. 3 in cosmetics, medicines and some other products because it was linked to cancer in mice
the ingredient theobromine is dangerous to dogs and cats. Most of us love our furry friends and it is vital you keep your favorite treats away from them.
Some dogs were born to dance...Oh honey, quick! Get the camera!..I think Ill sleep here...
As with most giraffes, they never really know what their role in life is...If you can unravel a lime with your tongue,
The real reason why pandas are going extinct. Darwin is watching!..After it was over,
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They may be less cuddly than pandas#but for the overall health of the planet, fungi are inestimably more important.#
#Scientists Fatten up Monkeys to Study Human Obesity Shiva is twice his normal weight and carries much of it in his belly.
Shiva belongs to a colony of monkeys who have been fattened up to help scientists study the twin human epidemics of obesity and diabetes.
The overweight monkeys also test new drugs aimed at treating those conditions. We are trying to induce the couch-potato style#
who directs the obese resource#at the Oregon National Primate Research center here. We believe that mimics the health issues we face in the United states today.#
#The corpulent primates serve as useful models, experts say, because they resemble humans much more than laboratory rats do,
not only physiologically but in some of their feeding habits. They tend to eat when bored,
a caged monkeys food intake is much easier for researchers to count and control. Nonhuman primates dont lie to you,#said Dr. Grove,
who is a neuroscientist. We know exactly how much they are eating.##To allow monitoring of their food intake,
some of the obese monkeys are kept in individual cages for months or years, which also limits their exercise.
That is in contrast to most of the monkeys here who live in group indoor/outdoor cages with swings
demand for the overweight primates is growing as part of the battle against the nations obesity epidemic, according to Dr. Grove and other researchers working with such monkeys in Florida,
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, a start-up company in Boston, tested its experimental diet drug on some of the Oregon monkeys.
In another study, a group of academic researchers is using the monkeys to compare gastric bypass surgery with weight loss from forced dieting.
what cannot be done with people#kill some of the monkeys to examine their brains and pancreases.
The primate center here, which is part of Oregon Health and Science University, has more than 4, 000 monkeys, mostly rhesus macaques.
About 150 of them are the rotund rhesuses. Some receive daily insulin shots to treat diabetes,
and some have clogged arteries. One monkey died of a heart attack a few years ago at a fairly young age.
Shiva a young adult, gained about 15 pounds in six months and weighs about 45 pounds, twice the normal weight for his age.
Like other monkeys with a weight problem, he carries much of the excess in his belly, not his arms and legs.
The monkeys daily diet consists of dried chow pellets, with about one-third of the calories coming from fat, similar to a typical American diet,
Gummy bears were abandoned because they stuck to the monkeys teeth. They also drink a fruit-flavored punch with the fructose equivalent of about a can of soda a day.
In all, they might consume about twice as many calories as a normal-weight monkey. Dr. Grove and researchers at some other centers say the high-fructose corn syrup appears to accelerate the development of obesity and diabetes.
It wasnt until we added those carbs that we got all those other changes, including those changes in body fat,#
who helped create an obese baboon colony at the Southwest National Primate Research center in San antonio. Still,
and monkeys get fat because of a high-fat diet is not a good suggestion, #she said.
Dr. Hansen, who has been doing research on obese monkeys for four decades, prefers animals that become naturally obese with age,
one of her monkeys who she said was at one time the worlds heaviest rhesus, at 70 pounds,
Mice and rats remain the main animals for medical research, but the effects on rodents often do not mirror those in people.
Rinat Neuroscience had an experimental drug that sharply reduced appetite in rodents. But obese baboons in San antonio doubled
or tripled their food intake when they got the drug. The surprising result prompted Pfizer,
which acquired Rinat, to explore whether the drug instead could promote weight gain, perhaps for cancer patients or others suffering from wasting.
Some companies see no need to use primates to study obesity and diabetes, saying it is almost as easy to do human studies.
Monkey studies can cost up to several million dollars. The animals are so precious that only a small number can be used.
Doing primate studies is about as difficult as doing human studies from an ethical standpoint,
Animal rights activists say primate studies subject animals to needless suffering like the stress of being caged.
what they said were mistreated and unhealthy monkeys. Jim Newman, a spokesman for the primate center, said the accusations were unfounded and that after both instances,
inspectors from the Department of agriculture found no violations of rules. Activists also question whether the studies are needed.
when pregnant monkeys ate the high-fat diet, their offspring had metabolic problems. The babies were also more prone to anxiety
Terrorizing Monkeys with Mr. Potato Head is Research?##Alisa Mullins of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wrote in November.
She also questioned the need to study fat monkeys: Gee, couldnt he have hung out at the local Mcdonalds
the monkeys are housed in pairs and separated only at meal times so that researchers can monitor what each monkey eats.
These are said social animals Janice D. Wagner, a professor of pathology there. We think they are happier that way.#
the obese monkeys are following. This is a booming industry in China, #said Dr. Grove. They have colonies of thousands of them.#
#Why Chocolate Is Bad For Dogs Chocolate and dogs do not mix. To most of us, chocolate is a delicious substance.
To dogs, chocolate is also delicious, but potentially lethal. Chocolate contains theobromine, a naturally occurring stimulant found in the cocoa bean.
It affects the central nervous system as well as heart muscle. Its the theobromine that is poisonous to dogs in sufficient quantities.
But it takes, on average, a fairly large amount of theobromine to cause a toxic reaction#For more specific figures,
50 mg/oz So, the general rules for the amount of chocolate that will be toxic for a dog:
one ounce per pound of body weight (so, without intervention, a 16 pound dog (7. 2 kg) would likely die from eating one pound of milk chocolate) Dark chocolate:
1/3 of an ounce per pound of body weight (around 5 ounces of dark chocolate for that same 16 pound dog) Bakers chocolate:
1/9 of an ounce per pound of body weight (around 1. 8 ounces of bakers chocolate for a 16 pound dog) Cocoa powder:
1/16 of an ounce per pound of dog (around 1 ounce of cocoa powder to kill a 16 pound dog) On the other extreme end,
it would take about 200 pounds of white chocolate consumed within a 17 hour period to reach toxic levels of theobromine for a 16 pound dog.
Sheep can also pass psychological tests that monkeys would fail, according to their study. Dr Laura Avanzo and Dr Jennifer Morton were studying neurodegeneration with a focus on Huntingdons disease
Only humans and other primates find these kind of responses easy; most other large animals struggle with them,
Animal behavioural specialists have focused for decades their attention on monkeys during testing. Dr Avanzo and Dr Morton believe this is because sheep,
#Top 10 Photos of the Week Todays couch potatoes have a way of turning every disaster into a spectator sport I saw the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and
I didnt see any tigers or dragons. And then I realised why: theyre crouching and hidden.##
and it occurs in other mammals as well. The goose bumps are caused when individual muscles at the base of each hair contract
The best example of this is the porcupine whose spikes stand up when threatened. It seems that horripilation is simply a reflex left over from the evolutionary process,
so it should come as no surprise that 25%of British kids did not know what a mouse looked like.
#said Anil Margsahayam, cofounder of another underground eatery, the Stag Dining Group, so named because all five owners (chefs, hunters, marketers, performers and conservationists) are unmarried
He has taped segments for two coming Travel Channel programs, Bizarre Foods#and The Wild Within,#where he prepared roadkill raccoon.#(
#The raccoon was supplied by the TV SHOW, he noted.)He has about 22,000 subscribers to his newsletter,
a zero-landfill environment,#said Matthew Homyak, a cofounder of Stag Dining. As far as employees are concerned,
#said Jordan Grosser, one of two professionally trained chef-owners with Stag Dining. Mr. Rabins did not attend culinary school.
#Rare Miniature â Panda Cowâ##Born Rare panda cow A rare miniature cow with markings similar to a panda was born on a farm in northern Colorado.
The so-called panda cow#born in Larimer County is thought to be one of only about 24 in the world.
Donovan, is a panda bull on the farm. Farmer Chris Jessen raises miniature cattle and also owns a miniature kangaroo on his hobby farm.
The miniature panda cow is the result of genetic manipulation. A white belt encircles the animals midsection
and the cow has a white face with black ovals around the eyes, giving it a panda-like appearance.
The mini-cattle are bred solely as pets. Jessen says panda calves can sell for $30, 000.
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#Pepsico is Betting Consumers Want to â Snackifyâ##Drinks Tropolis Because healthy food just isnt cool enough for todays youth,
Yup, we have fat rats. In a long-term study, rats that were feed genetically modified corn became obese compared to rats that were fed natural corn.
With all this information about GMOS in our diet. I think it s time to label them
Make sure to see the pictures of the rat tumors. Those things are huge! They specifically tested the rats on GM corn and soy.
Buy organic and GMO free. 10. Social media leads to premature death..just kidding. I would cry
studied the effectiveness of oregano oil on 18 mice infected with staph bacteria. Six mice were given oregano oil,
and half survived for the full 30 days of the treatment. Six received carvacrol, regarded by many experts to be the antibacterial component in oregano, in olive oil,
Six other mice received only olive oil and died within three days. The study, which was underwritten by a company, North american Herb and Spice,
and to ensure that the rodents that carry salmonella and campylobacter are eliminated. You can t just replace antibiotics with oregano oil
#Scientists plan to clone Brazil s endangered species Black Lion Tamarin, the most endangered of the eight species in Brazil Scientists in Brazil want to expand a mass effort to clone the populations of eight
the species they ll be working with would include the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus; jaguar (Panthera onca;
black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus; bush dog (Speothos venaticus; Brazilian aardvark, also known locally as coati (Nasua nasua;
collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla; gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira; and Bison bison bison. Bison are not native to Brazil,
although the rest of the species all have some of their primary habitats within the country s borders.
The black lion tamarin, the most endangered of the eight species, is the only one that lives exclusively in Brazil.
Cloning and similar techniques have been attempted with endangered species before, with varying degrees of success. A 2011 effort to breed African black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) in the U s. was successful,
although it wasn t technically cloning. A 2009 attempt to clone the extinct Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) in Spain didn t work out as well:
the resulting kid only survived for seven minutes after birth. If the Brazilian cloning effort is successful,
the animals would all be carbon copies of each other and therefore not useful for maintaining genetically varied populations#uch diversity is key to a population s resilience in the face of various diseases and predatory threats.
It is also the reason that a bull named Badger-Bluff Fanny Freddie has sired thousands of the dairy cattle in the United states. 9 Grinding/milling Grinding is the process of grinding grain or other materials in a mill.
and almost all of the precise work is done by robots that string together solar cells and seal them under glass.
as it s known, this time with pointers on the elaborate etiquette of interacting with customers.
I don t know anyone who keeps a stuffed dog in place of a real one! But if we realize that all of plant biology arises from the evolutionary constriction of the rootedness#that keep plants immobile,
Elephants can find each other across vast distances by vocalizing subsonic waves that rumble around objects
A dolphin pod can find a dolphin pup lost in the ocean through its distress chirps.
The Kindness Hack Researchers at Wharton, Yale and Harvard have figured out how to make employees feel less pressed for time:
Instead of short climbing walls, there should be towering monkey bars. Instead of plastic crawl tubes, there should be tall, steep slides.
or your spouse is allergic to dogs#you can t always have a pet around to improve your mental health.
if pregnant rats are dosed with BPA, their pups will grow up with altered mammary glands in ways that predispose that animal to breast cancer later on,
A rat is a rat. It s not a human. What do we know about humans?
but using Rhesus monkeys and, unfortunately, the results were very, very similar. Those monkeys ended up developing mammary glands that were altered by the chemical in ways that made it more likely to get breast cancer.#
#Williams says she likes plastics and wouldn t tell her kids to stay away from Legos, but she still cautions women in their childbearing years against using an abundance of plastic products.
If you re going to chow down on popcorn, though, make sure it s the healthy kind;
while other seed-eaters, like mice, appeared to prefer foraging in noisy areas. This difference in noise tolerance would affect the likely germination of seeds
In a year, that means each person throws away almost 400 pounds of food, the weight of an adult male gorilla.
Never play with a tennis ball after its been in the mouth of a St bernard...Look, you have a great personality,
Oh give me a home where the lions do roam...There is definitely something in the water...
Cats 1) Drink water instead of soda. And drink tap water, not bottled water. Soft drinks don t contribute much to your body beyond chemicals and empty calories,
At the University of British columbia a robo-bunny has been developed that can mediate its users emotions,
The robo-bunny also has a pulse and can stiffen or relax its ears. But for now, users of the robo-bunny need to be wired up to biometric sensors for the rabbit to sense the user s emotional state
and react. You can t seriously expect kids to be wired up with sensors while they re using this,
a professor of computer science at UBC and the leader of the lab in which the bunny was developed.
Imagine a cat that, instead of biting you when you scratch it too hard rolls over and purrs.
We see a huge market for food,#Hu Tiger#Tao, a postdoc at Tufts University told Co. Exist.
hits the liver more directly and can cause more damage#in laboratory rodents, anyway. Some researchers,
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