some patients had contact with poultry or other animals just before falling ill, whereas others had Not late last week,
says Vincent Martin, interim head of the FAO s Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases (EMPRES) in Rome.
"This means stopping animal-to-human transmission is impossible, says Masato Tashiro, a virologist at the Influenza Virus Research center in Tokyo,
Should the virus become established in birds or other animals regular human infections might then occur providing opportunities for the virus to adapt better to humans,
The virus also contains several other genetic variations that are known from past studies in mice and other animals to cause severe disease.
or animals the affected humans caught the virus from. H7 viruses are common in wild birds but much less so in poultry.
Mutant mosquitoes lose lust for human scentmosquitoes that are modified genetically to lack some of their sense of smell cannot tell humans from other animals
Some mosquito species will feed on most animals that they encounter. Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that carries dengue and yellow fever,
but body odour is the only one of these features that distinguishes humans from other warm-blooded animals.
and humans from other animals.""It s sort of like a game show where the mosquitoes are released into a box
But Vosshall and Zwiebel dismiss the idea of releasing mosquitoes that cannot discriminate between humans and other animals.
falling from more than 1, 000 animals to fewer than 100 individuals today. Researchers at Moscow State university wanted to find out
and their dogs so they teamed up with Alex Greenwood, head of the wildlife diseases department at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin,
The animals will be transferred to other primate research centres or be maintained on site, say medical-school officials.
Inspections by the US Department of agriculture found that the centre had violated the Animal Welfare Act several times,
US$60-million battle to bring the first genetically modified (GM) animal to US dinner tables   a struggle that may be nearing its end.
The fish would be the first GM animal authorized for human consumption. 1989 â Canadian researchers engineer wild Atlantic salmon to overexpress growth hormone. 1995 Aquabounty files an Investigational New Animal
Drug application with the FDA. 2001 â Aquabounty submits its first regulatory study to the FDA. 2009 â The FDA releases guidance for its evaluation of genetically engineered animals as veterinary drugs;
Aquabounty s long struggle has discouraged other US companies from producing GM animals for food. Mark Walton, chief marketing officer at Recombinetics, an animal-biotechnology company in St paul, Minnesota, says that his company will focus initially on medical applications   using modified farm animals as disease models
"I think we will end up eating genetically modified animals of a variety of species, says Stotish."
We need to understand the point of contact between the vector and the susceptible animals.
or were caused by an actual shift in the animals'body clocks. For the study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B,
Source: UK Home Officethe number of research procedures involving animals in the United kingdom has continued to rise,
The 8%increase over 2011 figures was driven largely by greater use of genetically modified and other mutant animals.
Mice accounted for 76%of the 4. 03 Â million animals that were used for the first time last year in procedures including breeding and experiments.
28 july-1 august Scientists discuss conflicts between humans and wildlife at the 50th annual conference of the Animal Behavior Society in Boulder,
Italian animal work Proposed legislation in Italy to tighten restrictions on animal research has moved forward,
and require anaesthetic for any procedure causing mild pain in animals (such as giving injections). Concerned scientists say that the restrictions could halt important biomedical research,
says Michael Firko, the head of biotechnology regulation at the USDA s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
The animals responded by making antibodies that blocked that virus but aided infection with the swine flu H1n1,
The animals, a primitive breed called Soay (Ovis aries), are known for their diminutive size and their agility on cliffs.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the branch of the agriculture department responsible for overseeing GM CROPS,
"A lot of ecological studies in animals have shown that a bad start in life, such as low food or high population density around the time that you re developing, is essentially bad for your fitness,
and it would be impossible to target them to where they are needed most where grazing animals have left urine
The results suggest that mass epidemics may spark from a complicated intermingling of bacteria between animals and humans and from exchanges between different countries
"There is a pervading wisdom that local animals are a predominant source of pathogens and resistance, says study co-author Stuart Reid, a veterinary epidemiologist at the Royal Veterinary College in Hatfield, UK.
because animals naturally harbour the bacteria. To find out whether this was really the case, the team used whole-genome sequencing to trace the tiny evolutionary steps of the collected bacterial strains.
They analysed 142 samples isolated from Scottish patients and 120 from local animals mostly cows, then compared them with 111 strains collected from people and animals in other countries.
The team found that strains infecting Scottish patients were different from those in local livestock.
But they also found that strains could spread from humans to animals.""It s occurring at a low frequency,
and in imported food probably entered the country and infected animals and humans separately, then continued to evolve
Though local animals were not a main source of these pathogens he explains that it does not eliminate the possibility that resistance genes from local farms
A study found that insectivorous birds cut infestations by the beetle Hypothenemus hampei by about half,
And in Scotland, old industrial waste heaps known as shale bings are now home to rare and protected plants and animals.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013essence of elephants'by Greg du Toit depicts the animals at night.
and big-game animals that visited the water to drink and socialize in Botswana s Northern Tuli Game Reserve.
so that the animals would not pick up his scent. He told the Wildphotos conference, held at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 12-13 october
and a fresh perspective on Africa's wild animals. This photo, entitled'Essence of Elephants',was the winner of the exhibition's Animal Portraits award.
His shots of polar bears (Ursus maritimus and other animals on Russia's Wrangel Island wowed the crowd at Wildphotos.
But the small number and type of animals used in the study mean that"no definitive conclusions can be reached.
remote locations where they can record for long periods of time without human presence influencing the animal's behaviour.
The cyanide poisoning of up to 300 Â animals at watering holes in a game park in Zimbabwe last month served as a particularly unpleasant reminder of the lengths to
Figures from TRAFFIC and Save the Elephants suggest that between 25,000 and 35,000 of the animals are killed each year.
secretary-general of the Geneva-based Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)."
Major research funders and institutions, coordinated by the London-based group Understanding Animal Research, say that they want to be more open about how animals are used in research.
But the duplication in Amborella predates all the other polyploids, says depamphilis, who led a team in 2011 that inferred this ancient duplication from more limited genetic data4.
as we have with animals. In the same way that biologists are now starting to understand the power and influence of the trillions of microbes living in and on the human body,
and markets endophyte-hosting turf varieties that repel pest attacks without being toxic to animals.
which eat herbivores, sit at trophic level 3. Cod, a fish that eats other fish, claims level 4. Polar bears and orcas,
"We are closer to herbivore than carnivore, says Bonhommeau.""It changes the preconception of being top predator.
or animal-based foods, says Kastner. But changes were not uniform across the globe. Countries such as China and India, where hundreds of millions of people have lifted themselves out of poverty
But sometimes animals do not display such logic. For example, honeybees (Apis mellifera) and gray jays (Perisoreus canadensis) 2 have been seen to violate IIA,
points out that some examples of seemingly irrational behaviour in foraging decisions are understood already to result from the animals rarely having all their options available at once."
"Some of what we perceive as irrational behaviour would then simply be the result of presenting animals with the unusual case of a simultaneous choice,
for example by training animals to forage for items that have different probabilities of disappearing and reappearing."
Animal activism Anti-terrorism police in Italy are investigating the targeting of four scientists at the University of Milan who use animals in their research.
its nine research centres and the National Zoo. Previously, she was senior vice-president for research and graduate-school dean at Pennsylvania State university in University Park.
fine enough to make out individual moving vehicles, crowds of people and groups of animals. Cosmonauts carried out a spacewalk on 27 december to mount Urethecast's video camera on the hull of the Russian Zvezda module,
The researchers found that male goat pheromones are synthesized generally in the animal's head skin,
The group is now looking to find similar pheromones and pathways in other economically important livestock animals, such as sheep and cows
A study published today in Nature1 reconstructs the origins of Influenza a virus and traces its evolution and flow through different animal hosts over two centuries."
and a conference run by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in March in Bangkok.
there was a sense at the meeting that the attention now being given to the subject might bring changes that will make a difference to animals currently under threat."
said French environment minister Philippe Martin. UK animal research The british government says that it is committed still to cutting the number of animals used in research,
leading the US National park service to consider importing new animals for a genetic rescue. Now, nature is intervening
the life cycle of moose ticks and how wolves might be driven to form packs to ward off scavengers such as ravens, rather than for any hunting advantage.
Dangerous research Animal-rights extremists are increasingly making their attacks personal. A 12 march report by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology says that since 2000
I don't understand why people think it's okay to kill an animal for being an animal.
We need to learn to leave the animals alone and deal with the fact that we are sharing this planet with them.
instead for the 100%reliable method of killing the animal and checking it? 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?
and perhaps infected with the always fatal rabies disease would you opine about the population of wolves DNR practices of wolf management and the ethical treatment of animals?
but they do sometimes catch it from other animals like foxes.)Mt guess is the testing for rabies is to try to gain an understanding of why the wolf behaved in such a way
if it is even the same animal. There was no reason to kill the first wolf they ran across.
and subsequently infect another animal by biting it. While they are not reservoirs in the same way that bats skunks
if it was even a wolf or some other animal that bit this boy. What if the wolf they shot was not the one that allegedly bit the kid shall they kill all of the wolves in say a 20 mile radius
however wolves as many other animals are scavengers and will eat the kill that any other species left
So there's a pretty good chance that there was a problem with the animal. Authorities killed the one that was hanging around to see
and TRAP vermin pests and nuisance animals. Everything from bats to raccoons (which carry rabies.
-because one wouldn't want those animals attacking city folk on the streets. Not only is this young man (Noah Graham) tremendously lucky others are too for the swift actions of wildlife officials.
An animal has no malice and no regrets...they just are. People is the problem.
I could hear animals walking all through the snow. I didn't think anything of it everyone whose been out deep in the woods knows there's every type of animal all around you.
About fifteen minutes later I seen a pair of yellow eyes movin maybe just ten yards off from me.
All the wolves you've ever seen were either in a zoo or a sanctuary or domesticated PETS.
Both sides need to recognize that wolves are just animals like deer fish rats dogs cats
They are just animals so drop the emotion and look at this story objectively. Consider that if a dog had attacked a kid in a similar manner it would face a similar fate.
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 GPS collars responsible for all of the research extolling the benefits of wolves got on those animals?
when you write âÂ#Âoewhen the animal in question is as at risk as the gray wolfã¢Â# âÂ#Â
and wildlife officials construct a documentary aired on PBS Animal Planet Discovery and the like telling the TRUTH about wolves conservation
When we visit an encounter that goes bad should not be blamed on the animal as they are just behaving normally.
Killing of the animal should be the last resort and only if the correct animal can be identified.
Hopefully this boy will fully recover and continue to enjoy the outdoors.@@drchuck1-You wouldn't see anything outlandish with Dan's article
Animals were here first. Our job is protect them and the environment they live in. We are doing a horrible job
Too many people see animals and humans as two different entities. If we decide not to talk religion we are breed nothing more than a of animals that have developed into a fairly dominant species here on earth.
It has been and will continue to be natural for species to die and/or evolve into new forms.
or killing off animals that are considered pests. Pests are just animals that have been given a natural ability to survive where we dont really want them.
The whole discussion is not just if Panda's should be allowed to live on with human assistance
I am fine with people wanting to keep cute cuddly fluffy animals -but please be honest
this is an animal that's vital to the ecosystem...What? The Earth wouldn't even blink
What you're really saying is it's bad for animals to eat something different than
I'm just going to joke around cause some animals are lazier than others. My Response:
Most of those other animals can afford to be lazier at least for now. You will also note
As you yourself mentioned pandas cost a zoo more money than they take in. Apparently they aren't a good enough attraction considering their cost.
Imagine what a zoo could do just if it didn't have to pay for the panda.
Just because you lose a sort of spokesperson animal doesn't mean everyone will completely stop coming ignore all conservation efforts and stop giving out money.
They would quickly take up other animals as the front line and even the panda itself could continue to be a just cause.
They should have the same chance to live as any other animal! My Response: I agree.
and nature then they immediately contradict themselves by putting animals in captivity and controlling their breeding in hopes of keeping them alive and/or returning them to sustainable numbers.
what man does to survive is not natural so these animals and such are given special protections
but I firmly believe that conservationists need to allow the animal to die. Conservation goes against nature.
They deserve to live as much as any animal; it's not fair to hurt their chance of survival just
People only care about cute animals and they could care less if an ugly animal went extincted.
The Chinese Giant salamander is a perfect example. The Chinese Giant salamander is LITERALLY being eaten to extinction.
People simply don't care about animals if they don't make them go Aww!.I'm not saying Pandas deserve to die no animal deserves to die.
But the Panda is not the only endangered animal but most people act like it is.
Millions of dollars goes into Panda breeding programs were most of that money could go into protecting their habitats.
Surprise Surprise the ignorant people who make ignorant claims that an animal deserves to go extinct make ignorant arguments.
or any type of controversial animal conservation you'd know about this. I agree with all of
People only care about cute animals and they could care less if an ugly animal went extincted.
Do you realize that certain animals depending on their recovery program need more money than other animals?
Do you realize how expensive it is to care for and breed animals especially one like the Giant panda?
Many people thought bees were ugly and useless. We're now finding out that bees are important to the health of millions of plants
People simply don't care about animals if they don't make them go Aww!.Or maybe it's
You are suggesting that saving an animal should be some picky-choosy game of which ones are worthless/wasting too much money
I'm not saying Pandas deserve to die no animal deserves to die. But the Panda is not the only endangered animal
but most people act like it is. Millions of dollars goes into Panda breeding programs were most of that money could go into protecting their habitats.
but they're not stopping anyone for donating time and money to save other animals.
And cute animals do get more attention then ugly animals. Maybe that's why nobody knows aboyt the Giant Chinese Salamander.@
You are suggesting that saving an animal should be some picky-choosy game of which ones are worthless/wasting too much money
I'm not saying that saving an animal is some pick and chose game I'm saying it's unfair that some animals get more attention that others so stop getting butthurt.
Last comment for stoprequiredlogin (wish this site had edit comment or comment deletion options--)I wasn't trying to refute the article in truth.
The point of my comment was that ugly animals get less attention by people than cute animals
but that money also goes to other animals in their habitat. The issue is that the ugly animals do not have as much public outcry for their plights like the giant panda.
You cannot expect people to help out an animal they know nothing about. If you truly want to save the ugly animals then start spreading the word r
#An Open-source Hive To Save The Bees You may have heard by now: bees are dropping like flies continuing to die at unprecedented rates
and the reason why is still a bit of a mystery. So to give them a leg up the group Open Tech Forever has developed a beehive that can track the health of bees
So far insects are the only genetically modified animals that companies have released into the wild.
because it is catchy and weird and foreign and about animals. The lyrics are simple:
Bà ¥rd Ylvisã Â¥ker and Vegard Ylvisã Â¥ker the folks behind Ylvis describe the vocalizations of various common animals from cats to dogs to ducks to cows
And unlike say a raccoon it's a highly vocal animal. So how come we have no idea
The children's toys that teach the sounds of animals focus on domestic animals mostly livestock. Pig cow sheep rooster duck horse--these are farm animals
You'll notice that on this toy you won't see any of the most common North american wild animals--no raccoons no coyotes no deer no robins no hawks and no foxes.
Another reason might be that fox noises are mistaken easily for other animals. The common yow-wow-wow-wow sounds more like an owl than a canid and the scream-howl sounds less like a fox than the soundtrack to a nightmare.
Do Animals Have Orgasms? Ah the age-old question. When animals are going at it like uh animals how does it end?
Is there an animal version of the Big O? It's a bit hard to say actually.
Unlike humans animals can't tell us they're having orgasms so we can't truly know what their experience is like.
For the most part we assume that male animals orgasm because there's an ejaculation --though one can happen without the other they usually go hand-in-hand.
The question of female orgasm is as usual more hotly contested though all female mammals have clitorises. Scientists can infer that animals--mostly primates--orgasm through recording physiological
What about the rest of the animal kingdom? Who knows whether it feels like a human orgasm
The male red-billed buffalo weaver is the only species of bird we know of that exhibits orgasm-like behavior according to Tim Birkhead a professor in Sheffield University's Department of Animal and Plant sciences.
First of all orgasms aside animals don't get it on because they really want to make babies. They do it because it feels good
As fun as this kind of research is to read about watching animals get down in the hopes of detailing their climaxes in a scholarly manner appears to have gone out of style.
what all this points to is our own inability to know what other animals experience p
Animals Smith argues are autonomous. Thus in the eyes of the law an autonomous vehicle is arguably similar to a horse-drawn buggy.
And under the Geneva convention a basic legal requirement for drivers whether of animals or of cars is the same.
and other animals that migrate vast distances using their own internal magnetic compass? Will they have time to re-draw their magnetic maps
Bert J. Tolkamp Marie J. Haskell Fritha M. Langford David J. Roberts Colin A. Morgan Applied Animal Behaviour Science vol. 124
When people (or animals) take antibiotics they don't need the medicines kill off most bacteria while leaving behind a few germs that are naturally genetically resistant to the treatment.
That's why we incinerate our animals. And as a bonus the contrast makes us beleive the inside is juicy. that sounds like total bull ive had boiled chicken
Factory-farmed chickens aren treated t really as animals he says; they re machines that transform vegetable inputs into chicken breasts.
For more about goats consult your local petting zoo. Or read Modern Farmer this week.
Goats are cool animals with great personalities. ---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest t
Seed dispersal by animals is important for plants to help them occupy new areas of land.
Using animals as a method of seed dispersal is actually a useful form of mutualism âÂ#Âthe plants get to spread their genes
and animals get a healthy snack. In other reptiles seed dispersal is a well-known activity
So there is some chance that these crocodiles are indirect eaters of fruit who feast on fruit-eating animals.
Perhaps this odd phenomenon might help in part explain why crocodiles are such successful animals.
Crocodiles are obligate carnivores âÂ#Âtheir primary diet is meat âÂ#Âand as such fruits are classed often as anomalous food items
and also this is not a very common animal so guess whatever you want! The first person to get it right wins!
and fruits that are poisonous or indigestible to most animals; think of the eucalyptus of Australia or the bamboo forests of China.
His voyage also included livestock beginning a legacy that would lead to the extermination of many native animals in the New world through predation
and Drug Administration is asking veterinary drug companies to voluntarily agree to make it illegal to feed healthy animals some antibiotics.
and other animals people eat. The move is meant to reduce the amount of antibiotics farmers feed to food animals.
âÂ#Âoewith these changes there will be fewer approved uses for animal antibiotics and the remaining uses will be under tighter controlã¢Â# Michael Taylor the FDA s deputy commissioner for foods
Nachman and other critics worry farmers and farming companies will simply switch from saying the medicines are for making animals grow to saying they're for preventing illness in animals.
On many farms animals eat low doses of antibiotics mixed into their food either to make them grow faster
It's not clear exactly why low-dose antibiotics fatten animals up although one study done in mice hints that it's got something to do with changes to the animals'gut microbes.
Farmers and farming companies don t need prescriptions from veterinarians to get drugged feeds; they get them from feed stores.
Eventually the resistant microbes come out of the animals uhh other ends and from there may spread to crops as fertilizer get carried around by birds
but unless these veterinarians believe these uses are creating a public health problem they have no incentive to do thatã¢Â# says Steven Roach a program director for public health at the Food Animal Concerns Trust a farm animal welfare
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