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Wild reindeer also selectively forage in uncontaminated areas, as do many primates. But not all species explicitly avoid contact with yuck-inducing substances.

As wild reindeer and primates also avoid faeces, domestication isn't the key, so what is it?

with fresh blood and chewed up deer bones. It takes a while for my heart to return to its usual pace

As this elk of mind-signal reading technology evolves, the day will come when even your dreams arent safe from spying eyes. http://foreign. peacefmonline. com/tech/201010/98495. php 2. Hyperscanning Brain Experiment:

which examined the interactions between wolves and elk in the United states, as well as sharks and dugongs in Australia.

what has been learned about wolf and elk interaction in Yellowstone national park in the U s. to the interplay of tiger sharks and dugongs in Shark Bay, Australia.

In studies with elk, scientists have found that the presence of wolves alters their behavior almost constantly,

The elk graze less in sensitive habitats, which in Yellowstone is helping streamside shrubs and aspen trees to recover,

Fans voted for Jessica to go stag and thats how Reinbold-Gee wrote it. Textnovel, which is funded by contributions from its own members,

Who says that orangutans and tigers, dogs and deer, cats and birds cant all be friends somehow?

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:

Deers, Black bucks, Peacocks, Blue bulls, Chinkaras, are some of the animals that you would find roaming around their settlements.

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,

However, Azlan said the researchers found the remains of a samba deer which had been killed by one of the big cats.

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.

Standish-Hickey State Recreational Area Sugarloaf Ridge State Park Tomales Bay state Park Tule Elk State Natural Reserve Turlock Lake State

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

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.

and the moose isnt talking...Finally, a ride specially designed for people without Social security...Troll food.

#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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

and wildlife resources, such as grizzly hides, elk antlers, deer hooves, a number of rubber tracks, skulls, and more.

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 his flying reindeer can be traced to an unlikely source: hallucinogenic or magic mushrooms according to one theory.

and his reindeer. 1. Arctic shamans gave out mushrooms on the winter solstice. According to the theory the legend of Santa derives from shamans in the Siberian

3. Reindeer were shaman spirit animals. Reindeer are common in Siberia and Northern europe and seek out these hallucinogenic fungi as the area's human inhabitants have also been known to do.

Donald Pfister a Harvard university biologist who studies fungi suggests that Siberian tribesmen who ingested fly agaric may have hallucinated that the grazing reindeer were flying.

At first glance one thinks it's ridiculous but it's not said Carl Ruck a professor of classics at Boston University.

Whoever heard of reindeer flying? I think it's becoming general knowledge that Santa is taking a'trip'with his reindeer. 6 Surprising Facts About Reindeer Amongst the Siberian shamans you have an animal spirit you can journey with in your vision quest Ruck continued.

And reindeer are common and familiar to people in eastern Siberia. 4. Shamans dressed like Santa claus. These shamans also have a tradition of dressing up like the mushroom they dress up in red suits with white spots Ruck

said. 5. Mushrooms abound in Christmas iconography. Tree ornaments shaped like Amanita mushrooms and other depictions of the fungi are also prevalent in Christmas decorations throughout the world particularly in Scandinavia

It's amazing that a reindeer with a red-mushroom nose is at the head leading the others he said.

and reindeer are probably references to various related northern European mythology. For example the Norse god Thor (known in German as Donner) flew in a chariot drawn by two goats

which have been replaced in the modern retelling by Santa's reindeer Arthur wrote. Other historians were unaware of a connection between Santa

If you look at the evidence of Siberian shamanism which I've done Hutton said you find that shamans didn't travel by sleigh didn't usually deal with reindeer spirits very rarely took the mushrooms to get trances didn't have red-and-white clothes.

But Rush and Ruck disagree saying shamans did deal with reindeer spirits and the ingestion of mushrooms is documented well.

Siberian shamans did wear red deer pelts but the coloring of Santa's garb is meant mainly to mirror the coloring of Amanita mushrooms Rush added.

or the reindeer as the hallucinogenic compounds are excreted this way without some of the harmful chemicals present in the fungi

or the reindeer) Rush said. Â People who know about shamanism accept this story Ruck said.

and automobile collisions involving deer. That's why The HSUS urges all Michiganders to support two referenda one to nullify the wolf trophy hunting season set to start in November

Cave lions Sabre-toothed cats cave bears giant deer woolly rhinoceroses and woolly mammoths were prevailing species of the Quaternary period.

Thriving populations of wolves deer lynx beaver eagles boar elk bears and other animals have been documented in the dense woodlands that now surround the silent plant.

#Culprit in Mysterious Elk Deaths Found A hunter stumbled upon a bizarre sight on a 75000-acre ranch north of Las vegas N m. on Aug 27:

the remains of more than 100 dead elk. Livestock deaths are not unusual but so many animals dying off

Officials with the New mexico Department of Game and Fish investigated the mysterious elk deaths and ruled out several possible causes for the elk deaths including poachers anthrax lightning strikes epizootic hemorrhagic disease (an often-fatal virus known to affect deer and other ruminants) botulism poisonous plants

malicious poisoning and even some sort of industrial or agricultural accident. The investigation was hampered by the state of the elk:

Scavengers including bears and vultures ate most of the bodies with maggots and blowflies helping to reduce the elk herd to an eerie scattered sea of skeletons in the desert.

Spooky! Top 10 Unexplained Phenomena We couldn't find anything toxic in their stomachs and no toxic plants on the landscape said Kerry Mower a wildlife disease specialist with New mexico Department of Game

Pond scum of death Through science and further testing of elk tissue samples and water samples the real killer has finally been found:

In other words the elk herd suffocated to death unable to breathe. And the fast-acting toxin explains the animals'strange sudden deaths.

but in three fiberglass livestock watering tanks not far from where the elk died. The elk also showed signs they had struggled on the ground further supporting neurotoxin poisoning.

Based on circumstantial evidence the most logical explanation for the elk deaths is that on their way back to the forest after feeding in the grassland the elk drank water from a trough containing toxins created by blue-green algae

or cyanobacteria Mower said in a statement from the Department of Game and Fish. The algae-produced neurotoxin is similar to curare the famous toxin found in poison-tipped arrows used by South american indian tribes.

China has more than 10 flagship species including Amur tigers musk deer and the Yangtze finless porpoise according to WWF.

Ecologically kangaroos are Australia's equivalent of bison deer and cattle in North america. Kangaroos get much of the moisture they need from their diet

#Fun Facts About Moose Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Â Mammalia Order: Cetartiodactyla Family: Cervidae Genus:

Males (called bulls) have huge antlers that they shed each winter which are different from deer antlers in their shape.

The antlers help channel sound to a moose's ears. Unlike their deer cousins moose are solitary

and don't form herds. Generally slow-moving and easy-going moose can become aggressive and move surprisingly fast if angered or startled.

The moose mating season is in the autumn and can lead to spectacular fights between males competing for the right to mate with a particular female.

Moose are large and heavy with massive heads and long noses. They have short tails a hump on the shoulders

and large ears they can rotate. Moose can move through deep snow with their long legs insulated from the cold by a thick coat of hollow hairs.

They have good senses of smell and hearing but are noted not for their eyesight. Males and females are about the same height (4 to 6 feet

or 1. 2 to 1. 8 meters at the shoulder) but males weigh more around 950 pounds (430 kilograms)

while females weigh 750 pounds (340 kg) on average. Moose eat up to 50 pounds (23 kg) of plants each day

and may migrate seasonally looking for freshly growing plants. Much of a moose's energy is maintained by eating flowering plants and fresh shoots from trees such as willow and birch.

These plants are rather low in sodium and moose generally need to consume a good quantity of aquatic plants to make up for it.

While much lower in energy these plants provide the moose with sodium and as much as half of their diet usually consists of marsh or river plants.

A moose stomach can hold up to 112 pounds (51 kg) of food at one time. Moose are generally solitary creatures

but they do form strong bonds between mother and calf. One or two calves are born in May or June per female.

Newborn moose have fur with a reddish hue and they stay with their moms for a year until the next babies are born.

Â Calves grow rapidly and gain about 3 pounds (1. 4 kg). The lifespan of an average moose is about 15 5 years.

Moose habitat The moose lives in many places in forests around the Northern hemisphere. Some moose live in North america in places such as Alaska Canada the Rocky mountains Utah and Colorado.

They also appear in parts of Maine Michigan Minnesota New hampshire and North dakota. Moose also live in Siberia and Scandinavia.

In Europe and Russia moose are known as elk (which is particularly confusing because in North america elk is a different animal altogether).

Conservation Status: Least vulnerable The total North american population is about 800000-1. 2 million animals.

Hunters take about 90000 moose annually. Their only other predators are bears and wolves. Fortunately moose continue to be abundant despite fairly intense hunting pressures in parts of its range.

They are expanding their range in places and are tolerant of new habitats. Odd facts about moose:

The word moose comes from an Algonquin word that means twig eater. Moose can run up to 35 mph (56 kph.

Moose are very good swimmers and they can swim about 6 mph (9. 6 kph) not too shabby for a creature with four long skinny legs.

They can also submerge under the water for 30 seconds or more. The male will drop its antlers after the mating season to conserve energy for the winter.

A new set of antlers will then regrow in the spring. Antlers take three to five months to fully develop making them one of the fastest growing animal organs.

That flap of skin hanging from a moose's throat is called a bell. Scientists aren't completely sure

what it's purpose is but they think it helps males attract females. Moose noses are incredibly sensitive.

Occasionally a wolf may immobilize a moose by biting its nose the pain of which can paralyze the animal.

Moose have been hunted since the Stone age. Excavations in Sweden near to the Stora Alvaret archeological site have yielded elk antlers in wooden hut remains from 6000 B c. indicating some of the earliest elk hunting in Northern europe.

Moose can be domesticated. A farm in Russia set up a selective breeding program and has a small herd of docile moose that are used for pets and milk.

In Sweden there was a debate in the late 18th century about the national value of using the moose as a domestic animal.

Among other things proposals came up to use moose in postal distribution and there was a suggestion to develop a moose-mounted cavalry.

Such proposals remained unimplemented mainly because the extensive hunting for moose nearly drove it to extinction as well as moose aggressiveness during the mating period.

#Fun Facts About Tasmanian devils Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Â Mammalia Order: Dasyuromorphia Family: Dasyuridae Genus:

Sarcophilus Species: Sarcophilus harrisii Basic Tasmanian devil facts: Tasmanian devils are the largest carnivorous marsupials in the world.

The animals are sized dog with a stocky and muscular build. They can reach 30 inches (76 centimeters) in length

and weigh up to 26 pounds (12 kilograms). They have black fur with white patches at the throat and rump.

They are generally solitary creatures but sometimes come together to feed on a carcass. Tasmanian devil Pictures Unlike other members of their Australian marsupial family they are active during the day

though they are nocturnal hunters. The devils gained their name from European explorers who heard their loud screeching noise

and saw their ferocious behavior when eating or mating. According to researchers the Tasmanian devil's large head and neck allow it to generate one of the strongest bites per unit body mass of any land predator 1200 pounds (540 kg) per square inch

Yellowstone bears also eat cutthroat trout meat from elk and bison and a fatty high-elevation insect called the army cutworm moth.

He slides far too fast between the problems deer and other animals supposedly pose with the problems predators purportedly present.

stop increasing the population of deer for no reason other than to kill them. The last sentence of Von Drehle's essay says it all:

The title of Von Drehle's essay as it appears on the cover of Time (with a picture of a lone deer) is American's Pest Problem:

Even though venison (deer) is the only meat confirmed to have been present at the Pilgrims'harvest feast in 1621 turkey gradually became the centerpiece of the new holiday thanks in part to Hale Bertelsen told Livescience.

They apparently formed in two phases an older layer made up primarily of the shells of freshwater apple snails as well as the bones of deer fish reptiles

or hadrosaurs were large herbivores that filled the same ecological niche as deer or kangaroo today.

Similar to modern-day elk or deer Nasuceratops likely used its outlandish horns to deter rivals

whether such ornamental headgear was unique to males as is common in modern-day deer.

The adoption of the bow appears to have increased their hunting proficiency resulting in some game animals like deer eventually becoming overhunted

#Mysterious Elk Deaths Plague New mexico Officials with the New mexico Department of Game and Fish are puzzling over the mysterious deaths of more than 100 elk apparently all within a 24-hour period in rural New mexico.

The elk were found Aug 27 on a 75000-acre ranch north of the city of Las vegas. Livestock deaths by themselves are not unusual there are many things that can fell large animals including predators poachers

Whatever killed the New mexico elk was apparently neither a chemical spill nor a flesh-eating fungus though the deaths remain a genuine mystery at least so far.

Fisher cats nibble on everything from acorns to deer carcasses. The scientists found rat poison in 85 percent of fisher cat carcasses collected on public and tribal lands according to a study published in June in the journal Conservation Letters.

Although many vertebrates became extinct during this period mammals that are familiar to us today including apes cattle deer rabbits kangaroos wallabies bears

It reminded me of a dead deer on the side of the road in the Florida Everglades with a big pile of really soggy moldy laundry next to it.

and covers species such as the Siberian crane along with recent additions of the Saiga antelope the Bukhara deer and the Argali sheep.

Deer lose edge habitat. Threatened owls and raptors can't navigate through increasingly dense thickets.

A truck in Wagontire Ore. swerved to avoid a deer in 2008 spilling hundreds of gallons of molasses over the highway.

#Too much Deer Pee Changing Northern Forests The booming deer population in the northern United states is bad for the animal's beloved hemlocks a new study finds.

During Michigan winters white-tailed deer converge on stands of young hemlocks for protection from winter chill and predators.

The same deer return every year to their favorite clumps of the bushy evergreens called deeryards.

The high concentration of deer in a small space saturates the soils with nitrogen from pee according to a study published online in the journal Ecology.

While deer pee can be a valuable source of nitrogen a rare and necessary nutrient for plants some deeryards are now too rich for the hemlocks to grow.

Herbivores like deer interact with the ecosystem in two ways. One is by eating plants

but deer overpopulation is a factor he added. With the reduced hemlock cover available for deer the booming white-tailed deer population means more deer crowd into the remaining forest.

The researchers found more than 100 deer per square mile (2. 6 square kilometers) in popular deeryards.

And young hemlocks have a tough time recovering from the deer nibbling and browsing. In the eastern United states an invasive sap-sucking bug called the adelgid is also killing off hemlocks.

The Upper Midwest represents one of the last strongholds of hemlocks Murray said. Email Becky Oskin or follow her@beckyoskin. Follow usâ@OAPLANET Facebookâ & Google+.

#Why Elk Are Robbing Birds Sonya Auer of the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently won the Elton Prize from The british Ecological Society for her research and writing.

Â This harm results not just from changing temperature but stem indirectly from climate impacts on elk small predators and even the forest the birds inhabit.

Less snow means it s easier for big animals like elk to hang around and find food

But elk opting to overwinter in the canyons is not boding well for the local plants and birds.

Warming Planet Pushing Species Out of Habitats Quicker Than Expected Elk eat plants and they especially like the tender new shoots of trees like maple and locust compared with conifers

So when elk hang around in the canyons all year it s harder for young saplings of these deciduous trees to grow large enough to then produce their own seedlings.

and elk and plants mean for bird species like the Red-faced Warbler? Each spring Red-faced Warblers along with two other related species the Orange-crowned Warbler and Virginia s Warbler build cupped nests of grass tucked into the ground at the base of trees.

Â What we do know is that long-term increases in winter temperature are linked via elk migratory behavior

Deer Joins Sheep Flock Even deer get lonely it seems. A young red deer in England has been accepted into a flock of about 100 sheep

and seems quite content living eating and sleeping with his new friends. Members of the National Trust (a British conservation group) discovered the young buck two weeks ago after the sheep had been moved onto a nature preserve northeast of London at Dunwich Heath according to the BBC.

I've never seen deer interact with them Andrew Capell the flock's shepherd told the BBC.

The National Trust hopes the deer will rejoin his own herd if it wanders through the area the BBC reports.

But in the meantime it appears the deer and the sheep are getting along famously. Follow Livescience on Twitter@livescience. We're also on Facebook & Google+l

Animals that are active at night like deer and raccoons are more likely than wild turkeys to destroy most crops according to work by researchers at Purdue University.