Synopsis: 4.4. animals: Mammals:

Think of this as a wearable CAT scan system with variable-adjust focal point settings zoom powers down to a near-nano scale,

and the vermin they might attract in the form of rats. Depending on the species you re using,

6.)Top 10 Photos February 7, 2011 Today s couch potatoes have a way of turning every disaster into a spectator sport I saw the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and

I didn t see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they re crouching and hidden.#

where we grow very high quality food in AI controlled buildings. These will recycle all nutrients

so did the deer populationand the hungry mountain lions, which commuted in to eat the deer and,

occasionally, attack citizens of Boulder. The green border, paired with the city s conservative zoning and development laws, has meant also that national retailersor any monolithic competitorhave trouble finding good spaces to open in Boulder.

steer clear of the mountain lions, and squeeze into its limited office space, Boulder affords an incredible quality of lifealong with a place to do business.

As a commercial for the Dodge Charger put it two years ago, #oehands-free driving, cars that park themselves,

The other racers had no such problem. They also had substantial academic and corporate backing:

like a baby giraffe finding its legs, then suddenly, confidently circles the field#s if guided by an invisible hand.

All those cobs and shells can now be used as the basis for cheap energy. Similarly, startups are generating electricity with the machines in Liberia,

#but if you re thinking about cats, we like the old saying that they have nine lives

The attack came from Chrysler, the smallest of Detroit s Big Three automakers, in the form of a television commercial for the new Dodge Charger.

In the ad, the Charger is traveling through a long gloomy tunnel, the camera tracking with it.

They drove teams of horses, herds of goats, drifts of sheep. Animals, Smith argues, are autonomous.

Thus, in the eyes of the law, an autonomous vehicle is arguably similar to a horse-drawn buggy.

and oversight to guard against situations like a deer running into the road; the car must be able to hand back control with no warning.

They grew row crops-grain and corn,#oehad a couple of horses, occasionally had some cattle, but not usually,#Oster explained.

A 1973 NASA document summarizing the biological effects of vacuums on mammals gives you 10 seconds of consciousness

along with a stabilized Gopro3 camera, radio controller, batteries/charger, and a waterproof case. APA s newest model, the fully autonomous APA X4 is priced at $5, 000.7.)

Yeah zebra, you d better run!..Curiosity#one of our most precious gifts! Well, that and no-limit credit cards,

Aqua boy and his dog. Without gills, the dog is a somewhat reluctant follower!..The dangers of skateboarding!

Looks like they re going to need a bigger helmet!..Pegasus does exist!..Putin going down for the count,

Zhang s study also showed that in mice, those same tiny pieces of PLANT RNA#dubbed microrna or mirna,

The Monsanto researchers combed through large datasets of genetic sequences obtained from mammals, chickens, and insects, looking for any trace of plant mirnas.

Witwer s team fed monkeys a Silk fruit and protein shake, which happens to contain high levels of mir-168 and other plant mirnas.

But when looking at the monkeys blood, the PCR data were much more variable.##oewe weren t completely confident in the accuracy of the method,

The scientists also couldn t find this kind of transfer in experiments with mice and bees.#

Geology. com). 2.)Being#oeblind as a bat#means not being blind at all. While many use echolocation to navigate,

) Lemmings do not commit mass suicide. During their migrations they sometimes do fall off cliffs, if they wander to an area they are unfamiliar with.

HIV probably didn t jump to humans through human-monkey sex, but through hunting of monkeys for food that led to blood-to-blood contact.

SOURCE: Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives In Medicine. 24.)) Dogs and cats don t see in shades of grey.

They can see in blue and green. Dogs have a wider field of vision than humans

but cannot see as far in front of them as we can. SOURCE: Cornell Center for Materials Research.

#oethe interaction metaphor is not going to be a mouse and keyboard.##Based on the growing buzz over the Rift, the right metaphor may finally be here.

I won t tell you about the rat hair limits#)Fig paste can harbor up to 13 insect heads in 100 grams;

the rugged bags provide an airtight seal for long-term, pest-free storage. The Gates Foundation estimates that by using them,

when Mrs. Baird became disconsolate at discovering that rats had broken into the family s sole remaining bag of corn.

Ok, it s your turn to break up the cat fight!..Usually a sign of a bad date!..

#Elephant seal is laughing because he thinks you look funny!..Meals on wheels!..Kissing a giraffe is intimidating, even for blind people!..

Hose heads rule!..Even with the new fence between the U s. and Mexico, people can still just drive across the border!..

Corning, whose toughened Gorilla glass became the screen of choice for many smartphones, will provide phones with curved glass edges as soon as this year.

A Samsung concept shows off a tablet-sized screen that can be rolled up Even after the success of Gorilla Glass,

#Japanese scientists create 581 clones from the same mouse Scientists clone 581 mice from one mouse.

They have managed to push the technique to new limits by cloning 581 mice all from a single original cell.

scientists had established already a long history of cloning mammals. The first was a genetically identical mouse produced in 1979.

Shortly thereafter the first genetically identical cows chickens, and sheep were produced. What made Dolly a sensation,

scientist have used SCNT to clone other mammals including cat, dog, deer, horse, mule, ox, rabbit and rat.

the authors of the current work were able to clone a mouse to the sixth generation but just barely.

and cats went no further than the third generation. Frustrated scientists attempted to find out why successive cloning was progressively problematic.

For example, a series of cloned mice were shown to express an RNA molecule that inactivated one of the female s X chromosomes.

When the RNA molecule was removed cloning efficiency of the mice increased nearly ninefold. Based on previous work, the Japanese researchers sought to improve their cloning efficiency by using a chemical called trichostatin A that inhibits the powerful epigenetic protein histone deacetylase.

the inhibitor allowed them to produce 581 mice through 25 rounds of SCNT cloning. The mice were healthy

and were able to reproduce. What s more the cloning success rate did not decrease with each generation.

the technique opens up the possibility of cloning highly-valued animals such as prized cattle or racehorses,

#That s good news for those that have turned already to cloning to create a small pack ofsuper sniffing inspector dogs at airports,

cows that produced humanized milk, evenolympic horses. Cloning remains a young science and scientists no doubt have a long list of organisms they would like to clone.

Caribou Biosciences, to commercialize her work. In the short term, Church says, the potential of cas9 is that it could be used to study genetics in a way that was heretofore impossible.

But this is the kind of technology that one would use to bring back Neanderthals or, for that matter, mammoths, when their actual DNA is lost to time.

or an elephant (in the case of the mammoth) to match a prehistoric relative. If you want to bring back ice age animals,

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.

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.#

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.

whether it s elephants in Africa or Hereford cows in Las Cruces, New mexico. You will have seen this,

When these kinds of systems have been built for dog training or dog containment in the past, they simply had a shock,

It s been done with rodents. The idea was that these animals could be equipped with a camera

Do you send rodents into it? You can see the moral and ethical issues that need to be worked out.

#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.#(

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.

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.

games and dances including Lion Dance, Gu Zheng Solo, Gong Fu, Chinese Yo-yo, Handkerchief Dance,

moulds and rodents destroy or at least degrade large quantities of food material, and substantial amounts of foodstuffs simply spill from badly maintained vehicles

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?

D c.,says he started cooking food for Toffee, his 10-year old mixed Boykin spaniel,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

. 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.

and even build large buildings and luxury homes with custom architectural features that can be changed with only a few clicks of a mouse.

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.

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),

Dating a bear is only slightly different than dating Dennis Rodman!..Color nails! Every imagination needs a set of these!..

Never trust a hippo that complains he has caught something in his throat!..Early childhood training for girls:

Chimp smoking a cigarette! Is there no limit to the tobacco companies sleaziness in finding new markets?..

It worked on rats anyway. But researchers say in humans coffee might enhance the sexual experience only among people who are not habitual users.

Here's a look at the weirdest effects of the shutdown from a panda cam going dark to bored Congressional workers. 1. Poison-ivy eating goats sent home Last Friday in anticipation of a nearing government shutdown a herd

. 2. Panda cam went dark The National Zoo in Washington D c. was forced to turn off its Panda Cam.

and baby panda born to Mei Xian on Aug 23 the zoo tweeted Monday that The cams (incl. the panda cams) require federal resources especially staff to run.

See Photos of Mei Xiang's Adorable Panda Cub 3. Â KKK hindered by shutdown The Ku klux klan had to cancel a rally planned for Saturday Oct 5 at Gettysburg National Military Park in Adams County Penn

6 Crazy Facts About Cicadas Bird species raccoons possums foxes and whatever can get their mouths on these things can eat their fill

s a look at the weirdest effects of the shutdown from a panda cam going dark

</p><p></p><p>The National Zoo in Washington D c. was forced to turn off its Panda Cam.

and baby panda born to Mei Xian on Aug 23 the zoo tweeted Monday that &quot;

The cams (incl. the panda cams) require federal resources especially staff to run. They have not been deemed essential during a#shutdown. &quot;<

<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39153-giant-panda-mei-xiang-gives-birth-photos. html>See Photos of Mei Xiang&#39;

s Adorable Panda Cub</a p><p></p><p>The Ku klux klan had to cancel a rally planned for Saturday Oct 5 at Gettysburg national military park in Adams County Penn

</p><p>In a no-nonsense signal to elephant poachers the agency was supposed to destroy six tons of illegal ivory goods it has collected over the past 25 years.

Traditional relationships between farmers and llama herders also are frayed. The United nations not entirely blind to the complications of world food markets

</p><p></p><p>The male<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27572-platypus. html>platypus</a>has a venomous spur on its hind foot capable of dispensing a poison

that can kill a medium-sized dog.</</p><p></p><p>Look at the back of your hand

</p><p></p><p><a href=http://www. livescience. com/27503-camels. html>Camels</a can down 30 gallons (113 liters) of water

The water is stored in the camel bloodstream while the fatty hump &nbsp; Rather than being stored in its fatty hump serves as a source of nourishment

</p><p></p><p>Seahorses don&#39; t have stomachs just intestines for the absorption of nutrients from food.

A 2005 study of rats in the journal Nutrition Research found that chia seed diets dramatically decreased triglyceride levels and increased HDL (good cholesterol) levels.

</p><p>White-nose syndrome is a fungal disease that has devastated bat colonies across North america within the past decade or so killing up to 90 percent of some populations of little brown bats.</

. Whereas chimps walk an average of about 2 to 3 kilometers per day (1. 2 to 1. 9 miles) spending most of their time foraging

The National Environmental Policy Act the Marine Mammal Protection Act the Environmental Pesticide Control Act the Safe Drinking water Act and the Endangered Species Act were signed all by

Soy Though popular for centuries in many Asian cuisines soy is seen sometimes as dangerous after studies found elevated rates of breast cancer among rats

#7 Iconic Animals Humans Are Driving to Extinction It's hard to imagine a world in which elephants orangutans lions

What 11 Billion People Mean for Earth's Animals Lions There are only about 20000 lions left in Africa according to Dereck Joubert a National geographic explorer-in-residence

and filmmaker who lives among the iconic big cats in Botswana with his wife Beverly. About 50 years ago there were 450000 lions a decline of more than 95 percent he said About five wild lions are killed every day throughout Africa Joubert added.

Trophy hunters mostly Americans kill about 600 lions per year typically males with large manes. More than 90 percent of these trophies are taken back to the United states

and the activity often takes place in canned hunts where lions are placed in small enclosures or even cages and then shot Joubert added.

Joubert and his wife chronicle the plight of these sought-after male lions in a new film entitled Game of Lions airing on Nat Geo Wild at 10 p m. ET on Dec 1.

Leopards Leopards have declined also by a similar magnitude Joubert said. About 50 years ago there were 700000 leopards

and today there are closer to 50000 Leopards are hunted for their beautiful coats which help to disguise them.

About 5000 leopards are killed each year he added. Orangutans In Borneo and Sumatra large companies are destroying forests

and replacing them with big swaths of palm tree monocultures (plots where only one plant is grown

which don't provide suitable habitat for most animals) threatening the future existence of orangutans said Lee Hannah a senior fellow in climate change biology at Conservation International a global group devoted to saving endangered animals

and their habitats. There are only about 6000 wild orangutans left and about 1000 are being killed each year primarily from habitat destruction according to the Orangutan Project an environmental group

whose mission is to save the animals. Â Rhinos Rhino poaching has doubled more than since 2010 in South africa according to the country.

And this year rhinos went extinct in the adjacent country of Mozambique according to news reports. One rhino is shot in Africa every 9. 5 hours Joubert said.

Rhinos are desired for their horns which are thought wrongly to be able to cure cancer and fevers Joubert added.

Horns can sell for around $30000 per pound ($65000 per kilogram) according to the BBC. Black market Horns:

Images from a Rhino Bust Elephants Elephants are in trouble according to conservationists. Poaching of elephants has risen dramatically in the past few years due to soaring demand for ivory primarily in China and Southeast asia.

Five African elephants are killed every hour Joubert said. There are a total of about 300000 African elephants left and as many as 40000 are killed each year.

With these levels elephants won't be around for much longer Joubert said. Lemurs Since humans arrived in Madagascar about 2000 years ago about 15 to 20 species of lemurs primates with foxlike faces have gone extinct likely due to habitat loss

and hunting including species whose males grew nearly as large as gorillas said University of Illinois primatologist Paul Garber

But this was over the course of hundreds and thousands of years. Humans are cutting down the lemurs'habitat at much faster pace now.

As Malagasy human populations rise they threaten the remaining species of lemurs and thousands of other endemic species with extinction at an accelerating rate Garber said.

 Currently 93 lemur species are endangered critically endangered or threatened mostly due to the clearing of the island's forests according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) a global environmental organization that's 91 percent of all lemur species for

which data is available. Sharks About 100 million sharks are killed each year to be made into shark fin soup a Chinese delicacy.

This trade takes the form of shark finning in which the animals'fins are hacked off

and they are thrown back into the ocean to slowly die. However China's taste for the dish may be fading:

According to the American environmental group Wildaid consumption of the soup is down 50 to 70 percent in the last two years.

Nevertheless one-third of sharks and rays are threatened with extinction according to a 2009 study by the IUCN.

For this reason the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) voted in March of this year to prohibit the trade in shark fins of five threatened species. Â Emailâ Douglas Mainâ

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When it comes to animals a variety of characteristics can be wrapped up in a common name including where an animal lives (mountain goat) what an animal eats (anteater) the color of an animal (brown bear) or more broadly

A seahorse might slightly resemble a horse without the fur and with a different kind of tail

To be fair to whoever came up with the common name seahorse it's a bit more accurate than the direct translation of the animal's Latin genus name Hippocampus

which literally translates as horse (hippos-)sea monster(-kampos). Calling anything that only grows to be about 1 inch (2. 5 centimeters) long a monster is potentially more misleading than calling a fish a horse.

Starfish don't have scales don't have tails and can't swim so they are therefore not fish.

Like true panda bears red pandas spend much of their time munching on bamboo up in tree limbs.

And like true pandas they have thumb-like appendages. But this eastern Himalayan and southwestern China-dwelling animal does not belong to the same family as the true panda

and is not a bear. They actually look and act more like raccoons. They also occupy a family all to their own Ailuridae

and all of their closest relatives have gone extinct. Ringworm also known as dermatophytosis is not a worm at all:

It is a fungal infection consisting of several different species of fungus that feeds on keratin the substance found in hair nails and the outer layer of skin within humans and domesticated animals.

Guinea pigs are rodents and the only thing they share in common with true pigs is that they are mammals

and they make squeaky sounds. Like guinea pigs prairie dogs are rodents and have nothing more in common with domesticated dogs than guinea pigs do with true pigs.

The call of the prairie dog is thought to sound like the bark of a dog but given its small size the tone of its bark only matches that of the smallest true dogs.

With wingspans reaching up to about 4. 5 feet (1. 4 meters) wide these animals can grow to be as large as a fox.

But they are not foxes at all they are the largest and least studied bats in the world.

More than 60 species are known to live throughout isolated islands within the Pacific and Indian oceans and parts of continental Australia and Asia.

Their brownish-red fur resembles that of a fox but aside from that these tree-dwelling fruit-eating mammals have little in common with their namesakes. m

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