and sheep were the same animal just that goats were male and sheep were female.
and a talent for sculpting intricate replicas of animals. Finally Amato found the name Darold Treffert a world-recognized expert on savant syndrome a condition in which individuals who are impaired typically mentally demonstrate remarkable skills.
Ecologists and animal welfare agencies could use them to hunt down poachers and monitor savannah wildlife.
Checking fences crops herds irrigation lost animals etc. I don't know jack about farming but I could certainly think of uses for a small cheap drone.
Wild animals also play their part. Your lettuce is not organic unless a bird crapped on it.
By the way there are trillions of different critters bugs bacteria virus yeast and molds in the environment and yes birds bugs and animals dodo on our food too.
Why because we stopped grazing off the land like the other animals. All vegetable fruits should be clean properly.
#How Leeches Can Track down The World's Rarest Animalsmany animals are still almost complete mysteries to science.
Take the saola nicknamed the Asian unicorn a deerlike animal with two straight horns. Researchers first saw its horns in hunters'homes in 1992;
Scientists first discovered the animal in a Laotian food market in 1995 but have seen hardly it since.
Though experts largely agree the last one died in a zoo in 1936 some people hold out hope.
Scientists estimate that between a few dozen and a few hundred of this deerlike animal live in the remote Annamite mountains of Vietnam
Do a Youtube search for pretty much any smallish animal you can think of and there'll be several videos of a tame or pet version.
And then on the videos of cute furry animals in the wild you'll see the comments:
You can tame many wild animals so they won't try to kill you by raising them from birth but that's just learned behavior;
that animal is unlikely to exhibit what we know as affection toward you and the behavior it does have is passed not down to the tamed animal's offspring.
Domestication is actually change at the genetic level: an animal repeatedly breeds either through intentional human effort
or not (or a combination of the two) to emphasize certain behavioral traits. In the case of animals that would in the wild be aggressive towards humans those traits are easy to decide on:
we want the most docile least aggressive and least skittish animal. The Institute picked foxes on
which to experiment for a few reasons. They're canids like dogs so it would be easy to compare them to a domesticated species
but cuddly animals like red pandas as a means to save the species. The Soviet (and later Russian) study out there in Siberia did breed eventually a domesticated silver fox (read:
The animals developed different coat patterns floppier ears tails that curled over their backs--totally unknown in wild foxes.
and shipped to the Austin Zoo and Animal Sanctuary where they are doing wonderfully. Apparently these foxes were kept in dog kennels
which is improper and weren't fed or watered properly--by all accounts the Sibfox people were licensed not
and were inexperienced at importing exotic animals. The only upside is that the animals survived the journey from Russia.
Sibfox refunded the customers'money stopped responding to emails and shut down their website. Until now Sibfox was the closest anyone in the US had gotten to receiving a domesticated fox.
Then there are breeders like Tiny Tracks Exotic Animals located outside of Fort wayne Indiana specializing in several varieties of fox (red fox gray fox and arctic fox) as well as supposedly tame raccoons skunks and coatis
they are wild animals. The word tame means essentially nothing here--it mostly means nice
Kay Fedewa described the people who run it as not very nice people really quite rude even to the people they're selling animals to.
Neighboring Kentucky hardly a state you'd think would be prude about wild animals is a fairly typical example of state laws:
anything inherently dangerous which includes venomous animals (snakes lizards) huge animals (hippos elephants) and animals that would prefer to murder you than let you pat them on the head (big cats bears baboons) are outlawed all.
But so is any animal that has lived never naturally in Kentucky mostly to avoid issues with invasive species. Most states simply ban any normally wild animal from being kept as a pet.
But not Indiana! Indiana has three classes of wild animals. Class 1 is mostly squirrels.
Class 2 includes foxes beavers skunks raccoons coyotes and weasels. Class 3 includes venomous reptiles and all species of bear big cat and wolf.
In fact the only thing that separates Class 3 animals which are banned pretty much everywhere else is that a letter is sent to the hopeful leopard-owner's neighbors.
Endangered species of wild animals will be considered Class I II or III by the division director's designee and must follow the same procedures accordingly for that class of animal.
or 3 animal then you give him a ten-spot for processing and you're all set the proud owner of one of about fourteen western lowland gorillas.
the only real law in Maine is that wild animals have to have an identification tag.
Why are endangered animals still? Where is my miniature pet elephant? Its simple animal breeding anyone can do.
We should have domesticated versions of all wild animals by now. Especially those that are breed easy to.
They were using these foxes as an example of how domestication can actually change the physical traits of these animals such as shorter snouts floppy ears and more expressive eyes.
They were to be used as animals for the fur trade. Wild animals would be tested to see which ones tended to be less wild
and then bred to less wild ones. The changes brought on by this breeding was to make very tame fox
I've always wondered why so many people seem to want exotic animals. Honestly I've questioned their sanity any number of times (especially the ones with extreme animals.
After reading the article I'm not quite so sure about having such strong thoughts about those people.
Also I'm not comfortable with the idea of even domesticated exotic animals. Just because an animal is domestic does not mean it can't go nutty and attack a neighbor.
I thought this story sounded familiar and sure enough that's because it was in Scientific American in 2010. blogs. scientificamerican. com/guest-blog/2010/09/06/mans-new-best-friend-a-forgotten-russian-experiment-in-fox-domesticationand the great thing about it their version
me to genetically engineer an animal to love us...at least when we initially domesticated wolves they served a purpose we needed them to help us with livestock to hunt vermin etc...
we're breeding these poor animals in labs merely for our own amusement...it doesn't seem fair or humane.
and fully grown possums are not the disgusting filthy vicious animals you may think. Their behavior is roughly comparable to cats:
I just regret that an interesting and fun animal that is at the opposite extreme of being endangered is illegal to own.
And have seen first hand how these animals will cuddle and play with their owners. So..
I think it all depends on the individual animal and how its hand raised. My friends Bobcat even plays with his dog lol!
Not all animals from the wild will try to bite your face off!@@killert I believe there are some animals that people have tried domesticating in the same way the Institute did
but were unsuccessful. I think this has been tried with zebras several times but for whatever reason never works.
Of course I'm coming from the side that wouldn't want a wild animal as a pet so
When tame wild animals grow up they retain the characteristics of their wild counterparts and not those of a domesticated pet.
So why would an animal that is affectionate and social by nature acquire an uncharacteristic behavior like becoming antisocial?
if any animal would play with her she is very friendly and loves all dogs so
and we have to coexist with the fauna around us. It's hard to comprehend for someone who isn't fully aware that there's a large continent to the west of Manhattan
but the virtue of the system is that it limits the number of animals which also reduces the number of them that would otherwise die of starvation which is a particularly gruesome way to perish that entails a lot of suffering.
I grew up being taken to Glacier and Yellowstone national parks as well as many museums and zoos and I have been a subscriber to National geographic for most of my life enjoying especially the articles about wildlife.
or twist it to support the mostly metropolitan view that all animals everywhere should be protected all the time;
I think you may have been raised on too many Disney cartoons that portrayed animals as being able to talk
And I think you'd do well to ask yourself why an animal that can hunt
You can't possibly know for any given rancher what burden he is being forced to bear by wolves killing his animals nor can you begin to know his ability to bear those costs.
i have heard of live animals to be tested as 2000 years old (though i have no reference).
@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.
when the carbon formed not the age of the animal. For this reason radiocarbon dating only works for organisms that obtain their carbon from air via carbon dioxide.
and that the animals'facilities must be maintained in good care and soon enough they're filing a complaint that lists 17 of these little violations
and alleges that you have violated willfully the Animal Welfare Act. What are you going to do?
You could go through all the trouble of hiring a couple extra people to look the animals over
and that there weren't any animals inside it. The company may face fines or a suspended license for their violations of animal welfare and for lying to the USDA but an even bigger problem (for Santa cruz Biotechnology) may come from the NIH who currently exempts off-the-shelf antibodies from the set of animal treatment rules that governs NIH-funded research.
I hate abuse to animals. I understand some animals are used for medical science and all but they should still be clean and humane to the animals.
I hate big Pharm! They don't care about the animals under their supervision they don't care about people's illnesses they just care about corrupting governments
and selling their crap. whoa darth maybe you want to dial it back. First this doesn't seem to be a pharmaceutical company.
They're not making or selling drugs to anyone. They're extracting antibodies for use in research by other companies.
not to mention how dirty cows and pigs are compared to horses@solarflaredont be an animal racist. ---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys!
We must find out hoof to blame. Good thing about these horse puns is it's stopped all the sick Jimmy Saddle jokes. vt007
They forgot to take into account the fact that talking animals warp space-time to reduce the mass of objects around them.
Conservationists hope eventually the iconic animals will once again roam freely (and safely) across the grasslands of the American Midwest n
It would also mean an awful lot to the dozens if not hundreds of animal and plant species that call these forests home now
what needs doing as a result in simple terms says Thomas Stocker. So political leaders can't use the excuse anymore that they don't have time to sit down read
Climate scientist Thomas Stocker of the University of Bern Switzerland and member of the IPCC gives an impressively concise summary of the latest science about global warming.
Stocker contributed to the development of hockey stick graph a plot of historic and contemporary data that shows a sharp rise in mean global temperatures over the 20th century.
Out of 40 unnamed fairs where researchers swabbed piggy noses 10 had more than one animal that carried H3n2v.
the sugar found in the animals organ tissues triggers rejection in humans. Yet most people have no biological reaction to eating livestock
and does not come from an animal into living baker's yeast cells temporarily turning the yeast into a so-called protein factory that produces milk protein.
No animal is tortured in the production of this said Counter culture Labs member Ahnon Milham who is vegan.
and vegan and whether you call yeast animals or plants. But synthetic biologist and writer Christina Agapakis a postdoctoral research fellow at University of California Los angeles thinks Real Vegan Cheese could work.
Another group eats juniper which is also toxic to many animals. This gives the woodrats (Neotoma lepida) a nice niche allowing them to dine on a plant that others avoid.
In one test they found that packrats (as the animals are known also) fed creosote had much higher levels of bacteria thought to be involved in breaking down the plant's secondary chemicals
Then they fed two groups of the animals antibiotics killing off many of their gut microbes.
Animals that were fed creosote stopped eating the plant and lost weight whereas animals given rabbit food (devoid of toxins) seemed to do just fine
and didn't lose weight. But it gets better. Packrats regularly feed on other animals'droppings in the wild
and with that in mind the scientists fed a group of juniper-eating packrats a mixture of rabbit food and feces from creosote-eaters.
These animals apparently developed the ability to break down the plant compared to those just fed rabbit food who couldn't subsequently eat the toxic plant.
or perhaps even use bacteria found in the droppings of other animals (here's looking at you packrats).
This kind of intervention roughly equivalent to a fecal transplant--in which poop is transferred from one animal to another and
which has seen growing popularity amongst humans--could also possibly help in reintroducing endangered animals back into their natural environment
since breeding in the lab can cause the animals to lose microbes necessary for digesting certain toxic plant compounds found in the wild.
and seedlings of the parent plants that companies crossbreed to create the seeds they sell to farmers.
770 examined the health impact on humans or animals. They found no evidence that the foods are dangerous.
and producing the sugary treat from these animals is an ancient one (called meliponiculture) practiced for example by the Maya to this day t
The marks look identical to those found on the bones of animals consumed as food.
what s found in bigger animals. A horse contains more than 200000 calories and a bear three times that much.
and trace the origins of seized ivory providing the means to tackle enforcement problems in the country where the animal was killed rather than just the point where the attempt was made to smuggle it out of the continent.
The Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants programme part of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES) set up as part of the worldwide ban in 1989 reported that 22000 African elephants
There are no genetically engineered animals sold for human consumption right now. The only candidate that's anywhere close Aquabounty's fast-growing GM salmon seems to have stalled in its approval process
It's because of politics M foods are deeply unpopular and GM food animals especially so.
There are many labs around the world working on making animals that are engineered to grow faster resist disease
For example they're now able to change just one base pair in an animal's DNA code ne pair of letters in an animal that has billions of such pairs.
With these new tools some are hoping they can engineer animals that are more appealing to the public.
They're making animals whose genes are similar to those found in closely related unmodified animals.
So instead of giving pigs mouse genes scientists could make domestic pigs with genes normally found in wild pigs.
and learn more about them--amongst other bizarre animals that reside here --I booked a flight from New york without a second thought.
(which he doesn't want to share in detail for proprietary concerns) that he will use in the future to collect the animals and their silken firmaments and expose them to damselflies.
There are also a seemingly endless variety of animals to spot and identify and distractions provided by visitors like macaws.
and orange representing the University of Florida) into the animals silken home --but the crafty spinster cut out all of that garbage.
In reality human-animal hybrids have never been people with animal traits but rather animals tweaked to host
or benefit from human biology. The first documented example occurred in 2004 when the Mayo Clinic injected human stem cells into fetal pigs creating swine with human blood
The universe is filled with human-animal hybrids and ruled by an intergalactic monarchy (news to Earthlings.
and referred to as hatchlings and they exhibit the kind of physical and behavioral diversity that implies something closer to biological reproduction than mass assembly.
We followed the food supply living in caves brush piles hollow trees or under the dried skins of animals.
and domesticate food animals had need we or reason to build a house and then a hamlet and then a city;
If it does making beef from stem cells could be an environmentally friendly alternative to you know killing animals for food.
It also crunches some numbers on how much this animal-free beef would cost. Growing meat in lab is resource-intense and expensive it turns out.
Like the techniques that made last year's burger bioengineer Johannes Tramper's proposed method starts with a small number of stem cells taken from an animal.
In fact although one of the benefits of lab-grown meat is that it's not supposed to harm any animals for now growth medium requires animal products to make.
but that it's not a guaranteed solution to the problems of world's appetite for animals.
me that one of the definitive diagnostics of the human animal besides being the key to his success in survival
With the domestication of animals the roving continued but only following the grass. With the beginning of agriculture the crops stood still
But over the years by selection the animals changed and the cereals changed. The grains we use today have little resemblance to their ancestor seeds
and the animals could not be recognized by their early progenitors. Man has changed the face of the earth and the inhabitants thereof with the possible exception of himself.
and improve the breeds of animals because we are shortly going to need them. And we must mine the minerals refine the chemicals to our use.
or other small animals but caring for these would add to their already enormous workload. Small-scale agriculture is notoriously inefficient Hunter warns.
This affected the habitat of many other animals and plants in harmful ways and the ecosystem became unbalanced.
But some still believe carnivores are somewhat special in their top-down effects on the ecosystem she says.
To add to the environmental insults meat animals are fed about 1 billion metric tons a year of the same cereal grains that humans consume increasing the pressure on supplies of food and fresh water.
But globally more and more people are turning to farmed animals for dietary protein. Meat production is on track to more than double by 2050.
With around 70 percent of cereal grains consumed in developed countries going to feed animals and around one-third of the world's grain supply worldwide the most important step may be feeding animals less human food.
Far from being incompatible the researchers emphasize that C rop and livestock farming complement each other.
Animals pull ploughs and carts and their manure fertilizes crops which supply postharvest residues to livestock.
Sometimes we get dead animals he says. We get everything. He plucks out a black fragment that looks like plastic.
One step closer to a Jurassic park petting zoo. Onward science. PLOS ONE via io9 E
When these chunks of genetic material enter the rootworm perhaps after being sprayed onto the crop the animal reacts to this RNA snippet as it would an invading virus. This prompts a response that attacks and silences the corresponding gene in the host's own DNA.
More likely they will look like the animals around you. Although insects and their relatives represent roughly 80 percent of the world s animal species ome 900000 known types he mechanics of their flight had long been an enigma.
which animals keep themselves in the air. Now we are going beyond that to understand how flies steer and maneuver.
The study found that chemicals isolated from fungi in three-toed sloths were deadly for parasites that cause malaria and Chagas disease (Plasmodium falciparum and Trypanosoma cruzi respectively.
For example in villages in which residents forage primarily it's important not to bring home animals that have the smell that attracts tigers.
By preventing animals that are both missing genes from mating with each other a quantum jump in fertility could be achieved in Nordic Red breeds Sahana said.
Some animals use both types of habitat. Others like marsh-nesting seaside sparrows or the honey bees that produce mangrove honey rely on one or the other.
Dzierson posited that males were haploid--possessing one set of chromosomes which was confirmed in the 1900s with the advent of the microscope.
In addition Hunt and Page found that the honey bees'high recombination rate--the process by which genetic material is mixed physically during sexual reproduction--is the highest of any known animal studied
and can lead to misidentification species identification based on the composition of short DNA sequences-the so-called DNA barcodes-has proven to be the safest way to reach this goal both in animals and in many groups of plants.
Unlike animals most plants can't move to escape the cold or generate heat to keep them warm.
More than a dozen Academy scientists along with several dozen international collaborators described the newly discovered plants and animals.
New species unearthed close to homewhile researchers from the California Academy of Sciences are spanning the far reaches of the globe to find new plants animals
The color pattern it displays is a perfect camouflage that helps the animal blend into its habitat on the bottom of the sea.
According to the paper published this year in the International Journal of Ichthyology sharks of this genus are nocturnally active bottom-living animals
Among the largest human-related sources of methane are ruminant animals (cattle sheep goats and buffalo) and fossil fuel extraction and combustion.
Unlike nonruminant animals such as pigs and poultry ruminants produce copious amounts of methane in their digestive systems.
Agricultural researchers are also studying methane reduction through improved animal genetics and methods to inhibit production of the gas during digestion.
Toxoplasma is one of the few parasites that can infect any warm-blooded animal says Mariane Melo an MIT postdoc and the paper's lead author.
and other fauna and the introduction of an ash borer predator from its native range in Asia might bring with it a host of new problems he said.
A new study by the Catalina Island Conservancy scientists published in the December supplement of the Journal of Zoo
But with no natural predators the herd grew to some 600 animals. The Catalina Island Conservancy which protects 88%of Catalina Island had conducted previously studies that found the Island could support only about 150 to 200 bison.
and it raised concerns about the stress on the animals during shipment and the expansion of the herd beyond ecologically sustainable numbers between shipments said Julie King director of conservation
Beginning in 2009 the Conservancy's scientists injected the female bison with porcine zona pellucida (PZP) a contraceptive that had been used for fertility control in zoos wild horses and white tail deer.
and gene interaction networks may have evolved differently in sugar beet compared to other species. The researchers also studied disease resistance genes (the equivalent to the immune system in animals)
Few herbivores consume moss because it's so nutritionally deficient. The pikas in our study actually set a new record for moss in a mammal's diet:
To our knowledge this study represents the highest degree of voluntary moss consumption reported for a mammalian herbivore in the wild
Less snow cover low in the Columbia Gorge--only about 20 days per winter--means the pikas there collect smaller haypiles (about 10 pounds per animal per year by dry weight) for winter than do pikas at high elevations
in Colorado (about 60 pounds per animal per year in a 1997 Dearing study. The haypiles contained little moss but had forbs shrubs
Yet in both places the haypiles equaled about three ounces per animal per day of annual snowpack also showing the low-elevation pikas didn't need to prepare for winter as much because of the availability of their year-round salad bar.
In cooperation with the Oregon Zoo and local wildlife agencies Varner has helped begin a citizen science program in the Columbia river Gorge so local hikers can help monitor the pikas.
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