when you cram animals together by the thousands and dose them daily with antibiotics, the bacteria that live on
and in the animals adapt and develop resistance to those bacteria killers. Pew crunched another new set of data, the FDA s latest release of results from its National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System,
When it comes to managing animals, every conventional fence that I have built ever has been in the wrong place the next year.
so that animals would move to that location#there are a host of things that we have tried. And they all work under certain conditions.
But, if you have the animals clear over three pastures away, then you ve got to monitor the rainfall-related growth,
and you ve got to get labor to help round those animals up and move them over to this new location.
if part of this landscape s call is to support animals, then you are not optimizing
or exclude animals from areas on the landscape that you want to manage with scalpel-like precision.
And you can move the polygon that the animals are in over in that far corner of the pasture.
what an animal does, so that they can actually predict where the animal is going to move before the animal actually moves.
In my opinion if they ever figure that out, it s going to be way past my lifetime.
If you stimulate an animal with something unknown then, at least initially, it s going to move away from it.
animals will try and avoid the ending event #if they re given the opportunity. This is the principle that has allowed the USDA to receive a patent on this methodology.
there are animals that you could basically look at cross-eyed and they ll move, and then there are animals like me,
where you ve got to get a 2ã and hit them up across the head to get their attention before anything happens.
or the animal s personality. stands up and draws on whiteboard Let s say that this is the polygon that we want the animal to stay in.
These cues were developed to fit the animal that we are trying to manage. Now, if we go back to me as the example,
when the animal wanders into the 200m-wide virtual boundary band. Algorithms then combine that data to determine which side of the animal s to cue,
and Future#)If I m the animal and I m getting closer and closer to the edge of the polygon,
and use to move animals down chutes. I touched the Hotshot output and I could still feel it in my fingertips the next morning,
We don t want to overstress the animal. So we end up, either in distance or time or both, having a point at which,
if this animal decides it really wants what s over here, it s not going to be irritated to the point of going nuts.
if the animal doesn t respond appropriately, we are not going to do anything that would cause negative animal welfare issues.
There s no need to stimulate an animal beyond what it needs. I can tell you that
Now, there are going to be some animals that you either get your rifle and then put the product in your freezer,
Not every animal on the face of the earth today would be controllable with virtual fencing.
You could gradually increase the number of animals that do adapt well to being managed using virtual fencing in your herd through culling.
But the vast majority of animals will react to these irritations, at some level. They can choose at which point they react, all the way from the whisper to the lawnmower.
Whatever we do to animals, we are teaching them something. It s our choice as to what we want them to learn.
But, of the animals with whom I have worked #and the literature would support what I m going to say#cows are, in fact smarter than human beings in a number of ways.
What our team did initially was cannibalize a kids remote control car to send a signal to the device worn by the animal.
to steer the animals#no pun intended#over the landscape. What s interesting is that
In twenty years from now#somewhere in this century, at least#after the ethical and moral issues have been worked out, instead of stimulating animals with external audio sound or electrical stimulation,
The idea was that these animals could be equipped with a camera or other sensors and sent into earthquake areas
Aha#so it s the human animals that will need still a physical fence. Anderson: I think so.
animals have laterality. You probably didn t see the article that I published last year on sheep laterality. laughter Twilley and Manaugh:
but, basically, animals are no different than you and I. There are animals that have a preference to turn right
and others that have a preference to turn left. Now, I didn t do this study to waste government money.
so you can learn about each animal, and modify your stimulus accordingly. There is no reason at all that we cannot design the algorithms and gather data that,
over time, will make the whole process optimized for each animal, as well as for the herd and the landscape.
so if the polygon that contains the animals is programmed to move toward good forage, the cows will follow.
if you were using the virtual fence to move animals toward better forage, you could almost eliminate the virtual fence line behind the animals,
especially if the drinking water was kept near the#oemoving feed bunk.##The other thing is that the consumer-level GPS RECEIVERS
because there is never an exact line where that animal is sure to be cued and hence the animal cannot match a particular stone
or other environmental object with the stimulation event even if the virtual boundary is held static. It s always going to be just in the general area.
and divide it into many small paddocks and move animals through these paddocks, leaving the animals in any one paddock for only a few hours or days.
not to mention moving the animals in and out of different paddocks all the time. With the virtual paddock you can just program the polygon to move spatially and temporally over the landscape.
which to manage free-ranging animals. Here s another thing. Like anybody who gathers free-ranging animals,
I have a song I use. My song is pretty benign and can be sung among mixed audiences. sings#oecome on sweetheart,
Then when we wanted to gather the animals we wirelessly activated the DVFELECTRONICS and my#oesong###oecome on, girls,
Sure, I can get my animals up in the middle of night to move them, but why do that?
when the animals might start drifting in to d h
#A new Pew Internet reporttakes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries,
Examples of services discussed in the report Technology#oepetting Zoo#The Kent Free Library in Ohio#oehas hosted Technology Petting Zoos to give patrons
The library frequently hosts technology petting zoos to teach patrons how to use the CCPL tool
#and#oecolor Your World#Exploring Stress Relief With Paint#(New Milford Public library, New Milford, CT) Stuffed Animal Sleepover (Darien Library, Darien,
A big indoor#oefair at the library, with giant games, bowling in the stacks, musical entertainment, storytellers, crafts, an ice cream bar, a Tech Petting Zoo, and more.
Additionally, MT FWP staff works with libraries across the state to provide programming in libraries on MT animals.#
Frankentoys#the teens took old stuffed animals and sewed new heads and body parts, added decorations, etc.
and water to each specific animal as well as administer any necessary medications. In addition they can accurately forecast the weight
and ship date of each animal, while weeding out the under producing animals and the sows that create them.
This use case blew my mind and made me realize how diverse Iot can be.
Animal Communicator With early stage natural language translators already in existence for humans, the next step will be a technology that bridges the communication gap between humans and animals.
and how would this affect our human-animal relationships? 16. Global Elections When will we see the first global election with over 500 million people voting from at least 50 different countries?
and other unwanted animals. But this technology will also enable objects to be suspended in air with seemingly invisible support.
who are carnivores, but recent research published in the journal Science shows that as domesticated dogs evolved along with people,
Cats are another story they are dedicated carnivores, as you may have noticed when they show up at the door with half-dead mice and birds as presents.
And they want to do the same for their companion animals. If you re making better food for yourself,
The creation of entirely new strains of food animals and plants in order to better address biological and physiological needs.
Also known as cultured meat or tubesteak, it is a flesh product that has never been part of a complete, living animal.
Extinction Revivalists People who revive extinct animals. 146. Robotic Earthworm Drivers The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills
Unlike plants, of course, bringing animals back to life is still out of reachbut getting closer every year.
Although no de-extinction effort has yet been successful in animals seeds are easier to revive.
getting mice or other animals hooked on nicotine all by its lonesome is dauntingly difficult.
and Denmarknot to mention Paul Newhouse in Vermonthave published over a dozen studies showing that in animals and humans alike,
where they can be taken up by suckling infants. If pups that don t get SIGA from their mothers have weird bacteria in their lymph nodes,
The shepherd took his animals'discovery to some monks and very long prayer sessions ensued.
In animals lead can lower sex hormone levels EWG says.</</p><p>These chemicals are found in no-stick cookware
. 2. Panda cam went dark The National Zoo in Washington D c. was forced to turn off its Panda Cam.
and baby panda born to Mei Xian on Aug 23 the zoo tweeted Monday that The cams (incl. the panda cams) require federal resources especially staff to run.
It's an amazing number of individual animals said Chris Hartley an entomologist at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House of the Missouri Botanical garden.
</p><p></p><p>The National Zoo in Washington D c. was forced to turn off its Panda Cam.
and baby panda born to Mei Xian on Aug 23 the zoo tweeted Monday that "
</p><p></p><p>Carnivorous bog-dwelling plants called bladderworts can snap their traps shut in less than a millisecond 100 times faster than a Venus flytrap.</
#5 Mysterious Animal Die offs<p>Mass animal die offs often occur abruptly and as a result researchers often struggle to determine the cause of these outbreaks.
eating just one kind of food is not good for most animals including bees.</</p><p>The combined effects of these stressors are thought to dampen the bees'immune systems making them more susceptible to disease and literally collapse.</
</p><p>Starfish wasting syndrome is understood a poorly disease that starts out as a small lesion on the animal's body
and ends with the animal disintegrating into a pile of goo. The disease has been detected on several occasions on both the East and West Coasts of the U s. over the past several decades;
Like it or not we evolved to be sweaty fat bipeds that are furless and big brained Harvard evolutionary biologist Jason Lieberman said during a public lecture on Nov 6 here at the American Museum of Natural history.
Chemicals in green tea called polyphenols appear to inhibit proteins that promote tumor cell growth and migration according to experimental studies in animals.</
He once reportedly said that environmentalists wanted to live like a bunch of damned animals. 3. Theodore Roosevelt A renowned big-game hunter
Another perhaps more outlandish solution may be to eat meat that isn't from an animal at all.
#7 Iconic Animals Humans Are Driving to Extinction It's hard to imagine a world in which elephants orangutans lions
and other iconic wildlife only exist in stories photos and zoos. But that may be where the future is heading for some of these animals.
Several creatures around the world are being pushed toward extinction by humans through hunting and habitat loss researchers say.
Growing populations of humans and rising demand for agricultural products and the animals themselves via poaching are elbowing these iconic animals to the brink.
If these animals are to be saved people will need to be educated about the creatures'plight poaching must be stopped
and the animals'habitats will need to be protected experts say. Below are seven animals that humans are threatening with extinction.
These are just a few examples of how humans are contributing to the sixth-largest mass extinction in the history of the planet according to most biologists.
What 11 Billion People Mean for Earth's Animals Lions There are only about 20000 lions left in Africa according to Dereck Joubert a National geographic explorer-in-residence
which don't provide suitable habitat for most animals) threatening the future existence of orangutans said Lee Hannah a senior fellow in climate change biology at Conservation International a global group devoted to saving endangered animals
whose mission is to save the animals. Â Rhinos Rhino poaching has doubled more than since 2010 in South africa according to the country.
which the animals'fins are hacked off and they are thrown back into the ocean to slowly die.
For this reason the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) voted in March of this year to prohibit the trade in shark fins of five threatened species. Â Emailâ Douglas Mainâ
#7 Most Misleading Animal Names What's in a name? When it comes to animals a variety of characteristics can be wrapped up in a common name including where an animal lives (mountain goat) what an animal eats (anteater) the color of an animal (brown bear) or more broadly
what an animal looks like (dragonfly). This last category however is where the naming scheme can become misleading.
Is a dragonfly a true fly? No it belongs to the Order odonata along with damselflies whereas true flies (house flies fruit flies etc.)
To be fair to whoever came up with the common name seahorse it's a bit more accurate than the direct translation of the animal's Latin genus name Hippocampus
But this eastern Himalayan and southwestern China-dwelling animal does not belong to the same family as the true panda
With wingspans reaching up to about 4. 5 feet (1. 4 meters) wide these animals can grow to be as large as a fox.
(and capture of animals for the pet trade) has increased only dramatically in the past decade. A total of 633 rhinos were killed in South africa in 2012 for exampleâ according to Reuters. Compare that with 448 killed in 2011 and 13 killed in 2007.
It's hard to focus on other animals and plants all the time. But humans are animals who come from a world replete with other creatures and forms of life.
Even now surrounded as many of you are by urban centers devoid of forests and most wildlife people depend on plants and animals for survival.
Ultimately the loss of biodiversity will hurt you as you dear humans are part of the web of life.
which ultimately provides fewer benefits for humans. 2. Preserve the rainforests Rainforests are vital reservoirs of plants animals and microbes.
Most terrestrial animals aren't the big charismatic species like elephants and tigers often associated with the jungles butâ rainforest-dwelling arthropodsâ (a group that includes insects arachnids and crustaceans all of
Arthropods are the most diverse group of animals in the world and perform all kinds of vital roles in their environments from eating fecal matter to pollinating flowers.
and droughts sea level rise and even more extinction of animals that can't quickly adapt to climate change.
The poles are also home to magnificent animals like polar bears and penguinswhich are sensitive to environmental changes.
but scatology the scientific study of excrement can tell scientists a lot about an animal including its habits overall health and presence of disease.
The contents of an animal's poop can reveal its diet which tells scientists where the animal has been.
The bacteria in feces provide a sampling of an animal's gut flora and fauna which determine its health.
The study of feces has led also to advances in human medicine. For example poop transplants can be an effective means of treating intractable gut infections by reestablishing a healthy bacterial equilibrium.
Laughter therapist Laughter is the best medicine or at least the best therapy. Laughter has been found to reduce stress
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.
his repeated involvement in physical fights bullying and cruelty to animals;..and his lack of remorse as evidenced by his gloating after the killing of 1000 men. "</
If hcg was present in the urine sample the animal would go into heat indicating the woman was pregnant.
and a dessert of cricket pumpkin pie said Jayme Necaise director of animal and visitor programs at the museum.
One possibility is that hyperdominant species are unusually resistant to disease and herbivores. There's a really interesting debate shaping up between people who think that hyperdominant trees are common
what the myriad plants and animals of the forest are doing at different times of the year and to the weather.
The animals trotted or walked down a dirt track as attention -and thrill-starved runners tried to dash in front of them to incite them.
or incite the animals in order to fabricate more drama. The HSUS wants to anticipate that kind of escalation
and that's why we wrote to U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack who in his official capacity enforces the standards of the Animal Welfare Act about the concerns.
since they do not appear to be following the Animal Welfare Act regulations concerning public safety.
Pacelle's most recent Op-Ed was Butter-Cow Prank Does Nothing to Help the Cause of Animals.
and coral are animals.)Because the algae go dormant in the winter when sea ice blocks incoming sunlight the calcite layers develop visible bands that are similar to tree rings Halfar said.
and a different protective layer called eitihallium that keeps grazing animals from chomping too much of the algal surface Halfar said.
and the main gate in the larger inner wall of the city with a 48 meter-long (158 feet) passage was decorated with no fewer than 575 depictions of animals (according to calculations made by excavators) noting that these oepictures of bulls
and dragons representing the holy animals of the weather god Adad and the imperial god Marduk were placed in alternating rows.
The 10 Weirdest Animal Discoveries The end of the Cretaceous period corresponding to the beginning of the Paleogene Period was known already to be a dynamic time in history.
As animals'teeth grow and form chemical traces of food and water become locked into the enamel
which enable paleontologists to determine the diets of extinct animals. By studying these fossilized teeth Lister noticed that the change in feeding behavior occurred about 7 million years ago
Since grass is tougher to eat than leafy greens grazing animals tend to have crowned higher teeth with more enamel ridges Lister said.
Even with the wrong teeth for it by starting to eat grass as food these animals were imposing a lot of selective pressure.
or New Stone age farmers who migrated to Europe from the south between 5500 B c. and 4200 B c. owned domestic plants and animals such as sheep goats cattle and swine.
or by capturing escaped animals. Still given the close proximity of these two groups and how they occasionally exchanged artifacts the researchers suspect trade for pigs was a more likely scenario than hunting of escaped domestic pigs Krause-Kyora told Livescience.
#Ancient Rodentlike Creature Once Dominated Earth A fossil of a chipmunklike animal discovered in China is now helping reveal how this group of mammals reigned
Both of these adaptations helped the animals to become dominant among their contemporaries. Paleontologists are interested always in how certain superabundant superdiverse groups of animals got started Luo told Livescience.
Now Luo and his colleagues have revealed a new 160-million-year-old chipmunklike fossil that represents the earliest known multituberculate skeleton.
and grooves that would have enabled it to eat many different types of food including both animals and plants.
These teeth would have allowed later multituberculates to diversify from an animal-dominated diet to a plant-dominated one.
The animals could have fed on the seeds and leaves of ferns and cycads or perhaps fished out clamlike creatures known as conchostracans from the water for food Luo said.
The tablets also contained starch pine resin beeswax and a mix of plant-and animal-derived fats perhaps including olive oil.
But in the last 20 years however research has shown this asymmetry of function in many different animals from mammals to reptiles and fish he added.
This asymmetry could have evolved in vastly different animals due to similar evolutionary struggles to survive (finding food
The provisions were prompted by the EPA's inadvertent disclosure of the private information of thousands of farmers in response to a request from three environmental groups about confined animal feeding operations (CAFOS.
Even though animals don't engage in economic behavior like humans with money the psychological skills that humans bring to the table
when making economic decisions seem to be shared with animals said study leader Alexandra Rosati a postdoctoral researcher in psychology at Yale university. 8 Humanlike Behaviors of Primates Emotional choices Humans have the power of logic
The animals could leave the experiment whenever they wanted so their participation was voluntary.)Risks and regret In the second experiment 24 chimps and 13 bonobos were shown a small pile of food under an overturned bowl
and finding a disliked food the animals frequently tried to change their choice to the other bowl.
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 the 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 their primary diet is meat and as such fruits are classed often as anomalous food items
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ASPCA first noticed the danger in 1999.
or raisins and the animal has thrown not yet up induce vomiting using hydrogen peroxide. Ask your vet about the proper procedure.
Treatment of Animals. This essay is adapted from one that appeared in Bekoff's column Animal Emotions in Psychology Today.
He contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Recently an essay by Associated press reporter David Crary caught my eye.
As a scientist who has studied the cognitive and emotional capacities of a variety of nonhuman animals (animals) and as an advisor to The Someone Project on which that article focuses
because some people claim that supposedly smarter animals suffer more than supposedly dumber animals and that it's okay to use the dumber individuals in all sorts of invasive and abusive ways.
After 2500 Studies It's Time to Declare Animal Sentience Proven (Op-Ed) Lori Marino founder of the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy Inc. who also works on The Someone Project says it well:
The point is not to rank these animals but to re-educate people about who they are.
They are sophisticated very animals. I've emphasized the word who because these animals are sentient beings whos not whats.
So it's a matter of who we eat not what we eat when they wind up in our mouths.
Emotionally complex versus emotionally sophisticated In discussions of the emotional lives of animals the phrases emotionally complex
which to make the claim that dogs for example are emotionally more complex than pigs or other food animals.
and emotional they are protected not by the United State's Federal Animal Welfare Act. Would you do it to your dog?
Research shows that many people who eat meat are concerned indeed with the level of intelligence of the animals who find themselves in their meal plan
so discussions about the comparative intelligence of other animals are indeed important. Also of interest in the question:
Why do some people have radically different views about other animals? Indeed the titles of two very interesting books raise this question the first by Psychology Today writer Hal Herzog called Some We Love Some We Hate Some We Eat:
Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals (Harper Perennial 2011) and the second by Melanie Joy called Why We Love Dogs Eat Pigs and Wear Cows (Conari Press 2011).
and suffering such as that endured by food animals and the most usual answer is marked no with surprise and incredulity about why
Claiming other animals are smart or are deeply emotional beings is not humanizing them. Some of the comments by opponents of The Someone Project also need some further discussion.
For example David Warner of the National Pork Producers Council claims While animals raised for food do have a certain degree of intelligence Farm Sanctuary is trying to humanize them to advance their vegan agenda an end to meat consumption.
which meat consumption is reduced drastically is among the goals of many people claiming that other animals are intelligent
and we're not inserting something human into these animals that they don't already possess.
and some other animals are fully conscious beings. It's clear that the time is right for a Universal Declaration on Animal Sentience that involves people personally taking responsibility for the choices they make
when they interact with other animals. The time is now to shelve outdated and unsupported ideas about animal sentience and to factor sentience into all of the innumerable ways in
which we encounter other animals. When The Cambridge Declaration was made public there was a lot of pomp champagne and media coverage.
Janeen Salak-Johnson a professor in the University of Illinois Animal Science Department claims she favors a'happy medium
'and contends that campaigns such as The Someone Project go too far in trying to equate'production animals'with household pets.
Furthermore according to Professor Salak-Johnson We can't let all these animals roam free it's not an economically sustainable system...
Yes we have to fulfill our obligations to these animals but is it fair for us to starve the world?
The Someone Project is simply raising consciousness about who food animals are and stays well within the bounds of available scientific evidence.
or vegan diet believes that food animals will roam free if they're not eaten.
The way in which we could fulfill our ethical obligations to these animals would be to stop factory farming right now
and allow those animals who find themselves in these horrific places to have a good life.
and suffering of other animals Who we eat is on the minds of many people
and the conclusion of a recent essay in the New york times by Nicholas Kristof called Can We See Our Hypocrisy to Animals?
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