An unsuspecting worker ant in Brazil's rainforest leaves its nest one morning. But instead of following the well-worn treetop paths of its nest mates, this ant stumbles along clumsily,
walking in aimless circles, convulsing from time to time. At high noon, as if programmed, the ant plunges its mandibles into the juicy main vein of a leaf and soon dies.
so that dying in the nest would not allow sufficient time for stalk development and spore release before the dead host ant was ejected,
Cities produce plumes of pollution that scientists must characterize as the plumes evolve and disperse downwind.
Genome reveals comb jellies'ancient originanimals evolved gradually, from the lowly sponge to the menagerie of tentacled,
and snare prey with sticky tentacles. They are much more complex than sponges they have nerves, muscles, tissue layers and light sensors, all of which the sponges lack."
that he prefers not to use camera traps, and would rather get as close as possible to all of the waterhole s inhabitants himself.
Mike Veitch/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013'The fish trap'by Mike Veitch shows a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) actively sucking on a fishing net in Indonesian waters.
The conservation group WWF snapped the photos using a camera trap in Vietnam, and announced the finding on 12 Â November.
as well as trends in emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS) ozone-depleting substances that also trap heat in the atmosphere between 1880 and 2010.
that the mass-market consumer the long tail has been neglected almost completely, says Scott Larson, chief executive of Urthecast.
Would you advocate in the heat of the moment using a live animal trap or some other less reliable method of capture or just go along with the rusty but trusty leg hold trap?(
knowing the animal will be killed anyway. Would you stand in the way of a gunshot to its midsection in favor of wrapping a baggie around its head?
Oh but those traps are okay right -because one wouldn't want those animals attacking city folk on the streets.
The next day I found a rabbit in a snare I set the day before (don't worry hippies it snapped its neck
I dragged his body out of the cave and in a rage deboweled him in front of the other six wolves before cutting off his tail.
and swabbed just the right spots on the wolfã¢Â#Â#s teeth and claws.
Thatã¢Â#Â#s a tough but possible task with a dead animal in the lab even tougher to pull off in the 30-45 minutes an animal would be under anesthesia at a trap site.
and releaseã¢Â# wolf trapping using leg hold traps has likely been the single most important tool for wolf researchers and conservationists for over 50 years.
so I will let you know that they used traps the only kind that work for wolves leg hold traps.
inventing an electromechanical system to trap airplane hijackers the system drops a hijacker through trap doors seals him into a package then drops the encapsulated hijacker through the airplane's specially-installed bomb bay doors
and a prehensile tail making it a very good climber but it moves pretty slowly so it's often confused for a sloth or a loris.
me that he was not as good a jumper as a colobus monkey. 2. Great Tailscolobus monkeys have very long tails with delightful poofs at the end of them.
The best-known colobus monkey the mantled guereza (also called the Abyssinian black-and-white colobus) has an enormous poof sometimes taking up most of the length of the tail like a big white bottlebrush.
The mantled guereza uses the tail we think for balance as it jumps back and forth amongst the trees.
If you open your stupid trap again I'm going to simply reply with one your worthless posts insulting someone in the same way.
Ribbon-tailed birds of paradise produce outlandish plumage to attract a mate. Darwin was bothered by such traits
since his theory of evolution couldn't completely explain them (The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail
since his theory of evolution couldn t completely explain them (âÂ#Âoethe sight of a feather in a peacock s tail
The tail is what female like so they breed more with birds that have that tail.
Thus women are controlling the evolution of the species based on their preferences.@@Neotechniyes but the point is why do species
I'd love an animal that grew a ty-dye set of feathers. There are some justifications for it;
Birds for instance could use it as a place to nest. And after a few decades the plastic will decompose.
and an MRI showed a 7mm ball (nest of worms) by then (after months of suffering) still they refused a parasitic killer and
migraines vomitings brain on fire too eyes seeing flourescent eye turned 7mm nest ER visits temp at 95 etc.
but in truth it was called a nest of worms! Why do doctors refuse to believe there is a thing called microorganisms and parasites (germs worms fungus bacteria yeast insects etc.
On closer inspection it seems to have intact wings and a tail. We got a plane!
There are rounded edges at the tail. But if it is a floatplane the only U S. airplane it could be would be amphibious.
He'd also detected a subtle distinction in the shape of the fuselage near the tail.
It also had flattened a beaver tail around the vertical stabilizer an aft cockpit machine gun and no wing armaments.
How could something first evolve hair only to then decide later Hey I need scales or maybe feathers!
and its tail of gas and dust will grow longer as the ice of its nucleus sublimates more quickly.
BLACK DEATH COMET AFTER PASSING THROUGH ITS LONG TAIL OF (COMET NEGRA) 1014ad VERY LARGE TIDAL WAVES THE LARGEST EVER RECORDED FROM IMPACTS ALL OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AFTER PASSING THROUGH ITS LONG TAIL.
ITS TAIL LAST TIME AROUND WAS AT 90 TO 96000000 MILLION MILES LONG EARTH IS ONLY 92960000 MILLION MILES FROM THE SUN. ITS TAIL IS MUCH LONGER EACH TIME IT COMES BACK.
Remember its tail is Millions of miles long. November 28-29 2013 it will speed up as it rounds the SUN goes around it.
PNAS via Business Insider It does kind of explain why mouse traps get the mouse in the leaving position.
They're designed for life in the trees with super-sharp claws for climbing. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums notes that to prevent depression red pandas have to be given items to climb on.
Provide climbing apparatus for older animals it reads but beware: red pandas are escape artists. They might not be great jumpers
or Venus flytrap as it doesn't actually digest animal matter. Instead scientists believe that the spikes trap animals with thick fur like sheep
Just Like Lizards'Tailssome lizards and amphibians have the ability to regrow severed tails or limbs--in fact the blue-tailed skink abandons its tail intentionally to distract predators.
But humans despite our amazing advancements in the field of spying on each other are thought typically to lack this superpower-like ability.
Given Archicebus's size weighing about an ounce and measuring 7 to 9 inches long including the tail
or basalt traps degassing. None of those have happened in the last 200 years. -Randomly saying a name is not proof.
Now the sound of birds has been replaced by a constant sizzling and the smell of scorched feathers...
so the photo almost looks fake with the black shadows within the plume. Xcor you're not the problem. you're also not even near the only source.
There is no tail which which would catch radar as well and it's propelled by an integrated jet engine not an exterior propeller.
How many chances does a new bird get to build a nest in a tree starting with big twigs to wooving in smaller branches to light soft downy material.
At what point does the bird understand that the walls of the nest is high enough.
#Building A Better Bed bug Trap An old folk remedy involving hairy bean leaves strewn around the bedroom may have a new life as a modern bed bug trap according to new research from the University of California Irvine
Of course a bed bug trap only works if a bed bug actually walks through it which means it is unlikely that even a crafty biomimetic material will be a final solution for a bed bug infestation
I suppose since feathers and dinosaurs have been mention on a few other articles the writers thought this related. loltoronto photographer Pete Paterson has been photographing fowl for years. much better too. you can see his work at www. petepaterson. comi helped out on one of his shoots. the birds are feisty. wtf???
Dr. Yablokov found ONE MILLION deaths due to Chernobyl. 5. Dr. Wing found that lung cancers rose dramatically in people exposed to the Three Mile Island radiation plume. 6. Dr. Gould
When urine spraying a wildcat raises up its tail and ejects backwards a spray of urine against a prominent object of its surrounding environment says the new study.
There's still plenty of testing to do before the newly created virus shell can be used as a vaccine however.
but had 2x more feathers and of a different color and 3 feet but enviromental changes caused the chicken to mutate as such to become within the spectrum of chicken dna.
The swallows often build nests under bridges or other well-trafficked areas and so occasionally get hit by cars.
Beer people will already see the pitfalls of these approaches: One needs to know the pre-fermentation values (gravity
It loves and craves attention from people it'll lick your face it'll cuddle with you it'll wag its giant puffy tail
The animals developed different coat patterns floppier ears tails that curled over their backs--totally unknown in wild foxes.
@Addl The 2000 year old live animals you cite was from testing mollusk shells. The carbon in mollusk shells is dissolved from calcium carbonate in water.
Thus the measurement was an average of when the carbon formed not the age of the animal.
which breaks a record for tail size and may eat deer's hearts. a
#Another Chinese National Indicted For Stealing American GMO Cornsometimes even a high-tech heist requires a little digging around in the dirt.
(and also resembles the tail of this monkey geoglyph found amongst the Nazca Lines). Why they do this remains unknown.
They were detected first just before Christmas in traps specifically designed to catch invasive insects around Joint Base Pearl harbor-Hickam on the island of Oahu Hawaii.
The traps run on solar power and are equipped with UV light and a pheromone lure that's attractive to nocturnal beetles.
Since the beginning of the year coconut rhinoceros beetles have been caught in over a dozen traps. Officials initially identified a particularly productive breeding site in a mulch pile on the base's golf course
and face paint on actors than it is to fabricate (or animate) menageries of wildly inhuman characters.
and claws erupting from X-men. Bruce Demple a biochemist at Stony Brook University cites more dramatic examples of single mutations the kind of things that screenwriters might think about he says.
If that unassuming building on a street corner in Shoreditch is actually a trap for hundreds of tons of carbon imagine an entire city of Stadthauses.
#Chickens Wear Prosthetic Dinosaur Tails, For Sciencethe humble chicken is distantly related to the T. rex.
but there being few dinosaurs available stuck a prosthetic tail on the creatures'fowl analog raising them from birth to adapt for walking in a more dinosaur-like way.
This bamboo shark like a similar species on display at the Academy's Steinhart Aquarium uses its pectoral fins to walk along the ocean floor.
Cutting releases of methane and nitrous oxide two gases that pound-for-pound trap more heat than does CO2 should be considered alongside the challenge of reducing fossil fuel use.
#Evolution of plumage patterns in male and female birdsresearch published today looks at the evolutionary pathways to differences in bird plumage patterns between males
Both orders are famous not just for their flesh but also for their striking and elaborate plumages
Male and female mallards look so different that for many years they were thought to be different species. In other members of the same orders there is little apparent difference in the plumage of males and females.
and differences in plumage in almost 300 members of the Anseriformes and Galiformes orders --and focuses on patterning between male and female birds rather than colour.
The colour of plumage has attracted much research interest but the exquisite patterns of bird plumage such as the spots of the guinea fowl and the barred patterns of ducks and turkeys to just name a few have received much less attention.
Since the 1980s differences in the appearances of male and female birds have been seen through a prism of genetic correlation.
as a result of their mating patterns--they used their plumage to compete for and attract females. On the other hand female birds needed to blend into their surroundings
in order to nest safely and protect their young--so they became drab and dull to protect themselves
My research looked at the plumage patterns of male and female birds on a separate and equal basis
I reconstructed the evolutionary history of plumage pattern sexual dimorphism which allowed me to demonstrate that plumage patterns in females are not a result of genetic correlation.
Essentially what I found was that plumage patterning is remarkably labile--both male and female birds have the capacity to change between different types of patterns.
What's interesting is to consider what are the forces driving these changes in male and female plumage patterns
--whether they have an environmental basis and/or whether they have a signalling function between birds of different sexes or within the same sex.
As early as 1780 the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London published a paper by John Hunter proposing that plumage differences between the sexes were driven by sexual selection.
males of polygamous species (those with more than one mate) had developed spectacular plumage in order to attract a maximum number of females while monogamous species (those with one mate) retained similar plumage.
Gluckman said: Previous research has shown that the traditional argument that differences in plumage between the sexes stem from differences in breeding systems doesn't always hold up.
In many putatively monogamous species the plumage of the males is significantly different to that of females
and likewise males and females in many polygamous species have the same type of plumage.
This suggests that plumage is not exclusively an outcome of breeding habits --but is a matter of function in a highly complex way.
In her study of patterning Gluckman looked at the variations between the sexes of the same species and across species in order to build a picture of the pathways to similarity and differences between male and female bird plumage patterns.
She used a classification of four broad types of patterning: mottled scaled barred and spotted.
By emphasising similarities as well as differences in plumage patterns between male and female birds rather than
I found that sexual dimorphism in the plumage pattern of birds is nuanced highly and that there can be multiple types of sexual dimorphism.
In addition the plumage patterns of birds seem to transition easily between different types of dimorphism
While traps within the Pestwatch network provide insight on ECB population size where moths are active
and weigh one-third pound with grayish-brown fur small rounded ears and very little tail.
Camera traps placed across the island photographed all animals that passed in front of the lens and recorded the time.
Turning chicken feathers and plant fiber into eco-leather, bio-based circuit boardsthe Environmental protection agency has honored the University of Delaware's Richard Wool with its Presidential Green chemistry Challenge Award for his extensive
He created several high-performance materials using biobased feedstocks including vegetable oils lignin chicken feathers and flax.
Ethanol and gasoline separate into distinct plumes as they spread underground from the site of a spill.
when there is no generation of methane from a plume benzene would not be a problem--even for sources less than a meter below a foundation.
Charles Knapp Phd of the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago and colleagues compared the differences in physiological values
and fulfill their tasks by changing their configurations to trap chemical compounds Morcos said. With the hybrid SBM+DCA program and improved imaging methods in development theorists and experimentalists will be able to compute
Ring-tailed lemurs are identified easily by their characteristic black and white ringed tails which can be twice as long as their bodies.
The research team used field observations and motion-detector camera traps to chart the behavior and movements of 11 different troops of ring-tailed lemurs.
Using data from nest counts and remote sensing imagery the research team found that the bonobo--one of humankind's closest living relatives--avoids areas of high human activity and forest fragmentation.
Specifically the team compiled data on bonobo nest locations collected by numerous organizations between the years 2003-2010.
This produced 2364 nest blocks with a block defined as a 1-hectare area occupied by at least one bonobo nest.
Traps with high numbers of beetle catches could indicate the levels of beetle population at a particular site.
The eventual goal is to develop a bait for use in a provincial trap tree program in
Trap trees are used to concentrate and contain the local beetle population on certain trees in Alberta.
The bait tested in Grande Prairie lodgepole forests works by attracting the beetles to traps.
when 3-carene was added to a mixture mimicking the aggregation pheromone beetle capture in traps increased.
The new method created by engineers in Rice's Multiscale Materials Modeling Lab accurately calculated the ability of two zeolites small cage-like molecules with enormous surface area to trap and store gas molecules.
The color of the adult representatives is pale between brown and reddish with pedipalps or claws usually darker than the rest of the body.
In these uplands feather mosses create a microhabitat for cyanobacteria which fix a modest amount of nitrogen that mostly stays on site in soils trees and shrubs.
The water-stressed tropical forest trees support the production of more honeydew a sugary excretion imbibed by the Azteca ants that nest in the laurels'stem cavities.
Until now the bay cat (Pardofelis badia) had been recorded on camera traps just a handful of times in its Borneo forest home
Camera traps have transformed how information is collected for many species of mammals and birds including some of the most charismatic species in existence like tigers.
if the animal encountered a whole nest of bees or in the event of a snakebite said Stephen Galli MD professor and chair of pathology and the co-senior author of the study.
and on nest material as the bees feed groom and move about so that the hydrocarbons get mixed together creating a general colony odor.
To survive they raid the nests of other ants and steal the pupae. Once the pupae emerge they imprint on the colony odor
#Camera traps reveal Andean bears hate paparazzia series of camera-trap images released by the Wildlife Conservation Society today shows rare Andean bears acting like angry Hollywood celebrities--at least
and attempting to dismantle the Reconyx camera traps secured to trees. One series of images shows a particularly determined bear attacking a camera
and management of the buffer zones affected tigers the researchers used camera traps--motion-sensitive cameras mounted along animal trails--that snapped photos of 17 different adult tigers at sites
While GPS collars can tell a lot about an individual animal's behavior camera traps give a fuller picture of traffic in an area.
and methods being used all over the world--camera traps and satellite images--to measure how habitat has changed
Back in the US he discovered items used for testing home aquariums that would also work for soil tests.
or accidentally caught in traps for example). The agency passed the carcasses along to researchers at the Illinois Natural history Survey for analysis and the University of Illinois Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory conducted autopsies.
and found that aflatoxins are present in chicken breast gizzard liver and eggs-white and yolk.
which will be caught by using the ladder as a trap--a behavior which was described already in detail by now retired arachnologist Mike gray (Australian Museum) for the only known other species of this genus P. carraensis.
But few know that these real caddiesflies spin an adhesive silk underwater to build nets to capture food and build protective shelter.
'For biodiversity simple measures such as setting artificial nest boxes for bats and birds may if guided by research help bring some species back to the numbers found in unlogged areas'he said.
You don't want to mess with something with claws and teeth Thuppil said. They're acting in a very intelligent way Coss said.
The shell is tough --and accounts for the difficulty in squashing a bedbug. But research by Zhu's team and others has established that it's also a metabolic hot spot to protect against insecticides.
The results--which come from the largest ever study of wild bumblebee nests--could help farmers
because their nests are almost impossible to find. To work out how far bumblebees forage from their nests a team of ecologists from the Centre for Ecology
and Hydrology (CEH) University of East Anglia University of Bristol and Institute of Zoology instead took advantage of bumblebees'unusual genetics.
otherwise destroy the eggs because of fierce competition for host nests. The new research is published today 21 august in the journal Biology Letters.
To obtain it they guide human honey-hunters to bees'nests. In return for showing the humans the bees the honeyguide gains access to the otherwise dangerous and impenetrable nest and its sought-after wax.
But these African birds also have a dark side. They are unusually vicious parasites whose imposter chicks stab the chicks of their host birds (often little bee-eaters) to death
The newly published research has shown that this fight for monopoly of the nest also extends to other honeyguides in a battle conducted deep underground in the nest burrows that bee-eaters dig into the roofs of Aardvark holes.
For example honeyguides parasitising little bee-eaters lay smaller eggs in their nests than do honeyguides parasitising larger hosts.
Many classic studies have shown that comparable mimicry in cuckoo eggs has evolved to reduce rejection by choosy hosts that eject mismatched eggs from their nests.
and experimentally parasitised their nests the bee-eaters blithely incubated eggs even much larger than their own.
and about a third of parasitised nests contain eggs laid by two or more honeyguide females resulting in especially strong parasitic competition.
I are very lucky to be helped by a wonderful team of local field assistants who find all the nests we study
Naturalists are very comfortable with the idea of animals gaining a biological advantage by choosing to live together in high density'colonies'--such as ant nests or seabird rookeries--in certain parts of the landscape notes Hall.
Camera traps at two fruiting females and hair traps baited with seeds confirmed the disperser identity.
and riparian old-growth forest were the primary distinguishing characteristics of both nest and foraging sites.
The new toxicity test placed groups of mice in room-sized pens nicknamed mouse barns with multiple nest boxes--a much more realistic environment than small cages allowing the mice to compete more naturally for mates
Within each of the six sections was a nest box a feeding station and drinking water.
because the nest boxes were opaque plastic storage bins which mice entered via 2-inch holes at the bottom.
The three-year study of blue tits which also involved researchers from the University of California Davis USA and the University of Glasgow showed that mothers with more UV-reflectant crown feathers did not lay more eggs
Previous studies have shown that male blue tits prefer mates that exhibit highly UV-reflectant crown feathers.
UV plumage can signal maternal quality in blue tits so a male choosing a brightly coloured female will gain a good mother for his chicks and a less stressed partner.
In blue tits (Cyanistes Caeruleus) both sexes exhibit bright UV-reflectant crown feathers. The birds are socially monogamous with the female solely incubating the eggs
The researchers looked at the relative UV reflectance of the crown feathers of female blue tits
Also the mothers with more UV-reflectant crowns were highly successful fledging up to eight more chicks than females with drabber feathers.
As scientists with the Forest Services'Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains Campbell and Rustad know the promise and pitfalls of sensor networks.
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