Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Perissodactyla Family: Equidae Genus: Equus Species: Equus quagga (Plains zebra) Equus zebra (Mountain zebra) Equus grevyi (Grevy's zebra) Subspecies:
The single hoof is probably an adaptation that helps them run fast on hard ground.
Zebras are the most striking-looking of the animals in this family. So why the stripes?
in zoos they can live up to 40 years. Â Zebras graze primarily on tough grasses but they also browse on leaves
Zebras are generally social animals that live in small harems to large herds. They are generally slower than horses with a top speed of around 35 mph (56 kph)
As with so many large animals both prey and predator humans pose the greatest risk to zebra's continued existence in the wild.
African Wildlife Foundation-Zebra San diego Zoo-Zebra Woodland Park Zoo-Zebra Smithsonian National Zoo Grevy's zebra IUCN Red List Mountain zebra IUCN
To mate they rear up on their hind legs and press their bodies together. They also assume this rearing position when threatened.
#Furry Little Carnivore, Once Shown in Zoos, Is a New Species In the cloud forests of Ecuador scientists have discovered the olinguito the first new carnivore species reported in the Western hemisphere in 35 years.
The olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) is a century-old case of missed connections. The furry 2-lb. animal resembles its fellow olingos
which are called sometimes cat monkeys because they look like house cats with long tails. But the orange-brown olinguito eluded classification by scientists for more than 100 years
and even being exhibited at the Louisville Zoo the National Zoo and The bronx Zoo in the 1960s and 1970s according to a statement from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural history.
Field notes from the early 1900s indicated the animals were collected in Colombia Panama Costa rica and Nicaragua at about 3250 to 5500 feet (1000 to 1700 meters) above sea level much higher than the olingo's known range
even if we didn't find the animal we were looking for I knew our team would discover something cool along the way.
The team found the nocturnal carnivores on the western slopes of the Andes prowling the cloud forests for figs nectar and insects.
The olinguitos occasionally also eat birds mice and other small animals. Cloud forests are tropical moist forests with persistent fog or cloud cover.
This is a beautiful animal but we know so little about it. How many countries does it live in?
#Gangly Gerenuk Born at Denver Zoo The Denver Zoo welcomed an adorable baby gerenuk named Blossom this month.
and father Woody and the family can now be seen in the zoo's gerenuk exhibit.
and jumps to the delight of her first visitors zoo officials said in a statement.
But their uniquely designed hips and pelvises also allow these antelopes to stand up vertically on their two hind legs to reach leaves
Blossom is the first gerenuk born at the Denver Zoo. Her parents were paired through the Species Survival Plan of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
The organization acts like a matchmaker recommending which animals should mate to ensure that captive populations of endangered species remain healthy and genetically diverse.
There are thought to be about 95000 gerenuks in the wild and the species is listed as near threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
#Giant panda Cub Celebrates 1st Birthday Xiao Liwu the charismatic panda cub born at the San diego Zoo last year celebrated his first birthday today with a towering three-tiered cake made from ice and bamboo
and a half 0. 6 kg when he was examined first 23 days after his birth he is now just over 41 pounds 18.5 kg of pure energy the zoo said in a statement.
and napping in his favorite spot in one of the tallest trees on his exhibit the zoo added.
So far this year U s. zoos have welcomed two new baby pandas: twins born at Zoo Atlanta two weeks ago.
All pandas in the United states technically belong to China which loans the fuzzy creatures to foreign zoos.
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Based on animal bone findings nutritional data and other discoveries at this workers'town site the archaeologists estimate that more than 4000 pounds of meat from cattle sheep
The animals alone would need about 155 square miles (401 square kilometers) of territory to graze.
These animals also needed herders likely one herder for every six cattle and one herder for every 50 sheep or goats based on ethnographic observations.
At the end of their lives the animals were kept likely in the southern part of the town in a recently unearthed structure that researchers have dubbed the OK corral.
The structure which includes two small enclosures where animals may have been slaughtered and a rounded pen is hidden partly under a modern-day soccer field.
In most cases GMOS have been altered with DNA from another organism be it a bacterium plant virus or animal;
and damage to virtually every organ studied in lab animals according to the Institute for Responsible Technology a group of anti-GMO activists.
In animals having high levels of estrogen is associated with eating more sweets. This theory has yet to be proven in humans
and Wildlife Service (USFWS) declared that the animals'numbers had recovered sufficiently not to need federal protection.
The Dejoria family is committed to contributing to a sustainable planet through investing in people protecting animals and conserving the environment.
#H7n9 Flu Study Hints at How It May Spread in People It's likely that the new H7n9 bird flu virus can spread through the air on a limited basis according to a new study that looked at how the virus spreads in animals.
whether a person falls ill with flu including their overall health researchers like to study flu viruses in animals under controlled conditions to better understand how they spread said study researcher Dr. Richard Webby a bird-flu expert at St jude
Treatment of Animals. Bekoff's latest book is Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed (New world Library 2013).
This essay is adapted from one that appeared in Bekoff's column Animal Emotions in Psychology Today.
We move into the homes of other animals and redecorate them because we like to see the animals
or know they're around because it's cool to do so. Or we move in and alter their homes to the extent that they need to find new places in which to live
But a subtitle like It's Time to Kill the Herd would likely offend many people who find it difficult to grasp that that's what people do we kill other animals with little hesitation absent any data that the process really works.
because animals have become pests. As I've previously noted in an essay I wrote for Psychology Today Stray Animals and Trash Animals:
Don't Kill the Messengers: Our anthropocentric arrogance shines when we use such pejorative and derogatory terms
'Von Drehle notes in his article that people are a cause of other animals'successes
and other animals supposedly pose with the problems predators purportedly present. For example he writes The return of alpha predators is sure to remind us of the reasons these beasts were hunted so relentlessly by our forefathers.
Concerning the animals who Von Drehle calls alpha predators yes they are known on occasion to attack livestock
and results from the U s. Department of agriculture (USDA)' s Wildlife Services'wanton assault on numerous species of animals.
Wildlife Services could easily be called Murder Inc. Their horrific intentional and secret slaughter of millions of animals in the name of coexistence is appalling.
Indeed the animals who are killed are sentient beings who care about what happens to them
And in the process of starving animals cut off from their human feed are likely to become increasingly desperate and brazen.
and indiscriminately killed countless millions of other animals because we've created situations in which they become pests
It's just too easy to kill other animals and move on as if killing them is as acceptable as drinking a coke or a beer afterwards.
and the one who has the power to do anything we want to other animals and to the Earth.
and other animals are doomed. Unfortunately millions upon millions of nonhumans will pay the price before people do for our being members of an overproducing over-consuming big-brained big-footed and arrogant species
. While we indeed do many good things for other animals and the Earth we surely have done more than our share of bad and destructive things that likely will harm us in the future.
which we subject other animals. Peaceful coexistence is the only viable solution As I read through von Drehle's
I realized that the growing field of compassionate conservation could surely come to the rescue of at least some of these unwanted animal beings because of its emphasis on the well-being of individual animals.
I appreciate those who work in the area of compassionate conservation for their focus on trash animals.
and others that it's just fine to kill other animals when we decide they're a problem.
There really are no trash animals except when we decide they are and they pay the price by the billions for our uninformed and self-serving views.
The term trash animal should be viewed as an oxymoron conveniently invented because it allows us to get rid of those animals
however wherever and whenever we choose. It won't be soon enough when this term is deleted from our vocabulary once and for all
and these animals are respected for who they are allowed and to live in peace and safety. So thanks to Time for publishing Von Drehle's essay.
and if people who disagree with the tone of this piece don't do anything millions upon millions of animals will be killed.
Relationships with pest animals needs more study The study of human-animal relationships the field of anthrozoology is rapidly growing and
what with Wildlife Services'carte blanche willingness and ability to mercilessly slaughter wildlife and a recent declaration that we need to kill urban pestswe need to come to terms with how we deal with animals who we call pests.
and all too easily sets the stage for wanton and brutal killing these animals despite the lack of any evidence this heinous slaughter really works.
and slaughter other animals but with the appearance of EXPOSED we can only hope that Wildlife Services will be put to rest once and for all.
and killing animals we call pests is accepted as easily as swatting flies or mosquitos when they bother you it's
At the bottom of Von Drehle's essay there's an invitation to send Time photos of animals in your backyard.
because many animals are so successful they need to be killed. Please don't send in your pictures cute as they may be as they will alert people perhaps including those who think killing is just fine that there are animals in your area to be killed.
Bekoff's most recent Op-Ed was No Animals Were harmed in that Film? Not So Reports Suggest.
This article was adapted from Redecorating Nature: Have killed We Really Pests Too Rarely? in Psychology Today.
Watching wildlife Cows aren't the only animals that get a short shrift in Coburn's report.
we were the first animals to increase the carrying capacity of our existing habitat. Population slowly began to rise.
instead by raising animals said Hendrik Bruins a landscape archaeologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
But it's actually much more mundane. 10 Amazing Things You Didn't Know About Animals Honeycomb up close Using a honeycomb grown at a research facility in Beijing the researchers were able to carefully ward off the bees
10 Animal Genomes Deciphered In so-called vertical gene transfer an organism inherits its genome from its parents
and animals swallowed up other bacteria to form symbiotic relationships which eventually resulted in specialized cellular components such as mitochondria and chloroplasts.
He is remembered perhaps best for classifying life into the now-well-accepted domains of bacteria eukaryotes (plants animals fungi and protists) and archaea.
The 9 Weirdest Animal Penises The most primitive group of birds paleognaths which include emus kiwis
and then deposited in the bodies of herbivores like African elephants. By looking at the levels of this carbon isotope known as carbon-14 in elephant tusks and ivory researchers can find out how old they are.
However once the virus infects the chickens'upper respiratory tract people in close contact with the animals are more likely to be infected.
whose caterpillar is one of the most destructive animals targeting pines and cedars in southern Europe Central asia and North africa devouring the foliage of these trees.
Other animals that need to execute landings may also use this strategy. In addition the researchers mathematically modelled this relationship between perception
The animals once ranged in huge numbers throughout Tibet Nepal India and western China. Now the population across their entire range may be about 10000
The animal is protected in several areas throughout its range such as in Hoh Xil. The yak is the third largest beast in Asia after the elephant
 While polar bears represent a sad disclaimer for a warming Arctic the recent count of almost 1000 wild yaks offers hope for the persistence of free-roaming large animals at the virtual limits of high-altitude wildlife.
Very little is known about wild yak biology such as how often the animals breed and how many young yaks survive to adulthood.
But the parallels between the animal-cloning procedure and the new human one have triggered concern.
#Hunting Cheetahs Rely More on Agility Than Speed Cheetahs may hold the distinction of being the fastest animals on land
Quick kitty Wilson and his colleagues designed special GPS-tracking collars for their cheetah subjects that collected precise data on the animals'location speed acceleration and deceleration.
or sap move in microscopic channels in animals and plants channels 100 microns wide the average width of a human hair or less.
Dozens of species disappeared altogether including 17 giant lemurs three pygmy hippopotamuses two aardvarklike mammals a giant fossa (a catlike carnivore) eight elephant birds a giant crocodile and two giant tortoises.
Wacky Madagascar Animals Ecological shoes to fill Using fossils from two species of extinct Madagascan giant tortoises Pedrono located a group of very similar giant tortoises living on the nearby Aldabra Atoll.
Madagascar currently has no large animals capable of swallowing and dispersing large seeds such as those from the baobab tree.
In addition many of Madagascar's plants have evolved defenses against large herbivores such as spines and multiple leaf shapes that protect young sprouts from browsing tortoises.
This story was corrected to reflect the correct identification of the animal in the photo as a bighorn sheep and not a mountain goat.
How to Bring Extinct Animals Back to Life Editor's Note: In this weekly series Livescience explores how technology drives scientific exploration and discovery.
Now advances in biotechnology could enable scientists to bring extinct animals back from the grave.
but the experiment proved de-extinction was possible. 6 Extinct Animals That Could Be brought Back to Life We can use some of these techniques to actually help endangered species improve their long-term viability said ecologist Stanley Temple of the University
The world's last passenger pigeon Martha died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio.
Conservation controversy Critics of de-extinction say reviving extinct animals would do more harm to conservation efforts than good.
because animals that go extinct could be revived in a lab Pimm told Livescience. Most species are going extinct in tropical forests Pimm said.
And without the duff layer some animals lack a place to live. It's like they've been pushed out of their homes Resner said.
Still the charismatic birds maintain stable populations by holing up in branchless dead trees that carnivores struggle to climb.
a carnivore native to northern North america that was introduced to South america in the 1930s for fur farming.
and scavenged it in the den this type of behavior would be atypical of carnivores that tend to hunt live prey said Jaime Jimenez a researcher at the University of North Texas
but sometimes within minutes of each other suggesting the animals share the same habitat. This would make the woodpeckers vulnerable to predation
 They may have become naã ve by not having been exposed to terrestrial carnivores Jimenez told Livescience.
It's very easy for a carnivore to pounce on a woodpecker and kill it.
However more than half of that amount has already been burned Thomas Stocker co-chair of the so-called Working group
and changes in all components of the climate system Stocker said. Limiting climate change will require substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.
The nucleus is the compartment where in animals plants and fungi the DNA is stored. In bacteria the DNA just floats around in the cell.
Bacteria are celled single organisms most animals and plants are celled multi organisms. Cats are bigger than mice
But most parts of animals and plants are made up of cells containing DNA. This is why police can identify suspects from either a drop of blood
The new rule also says that gluten-free foods cannot contain any wheat rye or barley or any of their crossbreeds.
The animals thrive in relatively wet conditions and the locusts moved on once the area started to dry out in early February he continued.
what these animals looked like said study researcher Phil Bell a paleontologist at the University of New england in Australia.
or hadrosaurs were large herbivores that filled the same ecological niche as deer or kangaroo today.
Having a good idea of the outline of the animal I put my chisel into the rock not expecting to hit anything
the fact that any potential vaccine tests in animals (not humans) may be up to six weeks out;
Impossible Animal of Story & Legend A devil is said to haunt the wooded Pine Barren of southern New jersey.
and other small animals as well as leave spooky cloven hoof prints in snow and bellow a terrifying screech in the wooded darkness.
and anchored in a much more massive musculoskeletal structure to lift the animal's body weight into the air.
Most images of the Jersey Devil look like a monster that a high school Dungeons & dragons player might dream up as a composite of different unrelated animals
whose features could never actually exist in the same animal but look weird and scary.
Like other states New jersey harbors more than one mystery animal but whenever one appears inevitably it gets hailed...
Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical 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. Given that schools rightfully aspire to zero tolerance for bullying they should be at the forefront of encouraging students to be respectful to each other to their teachers and to all those around them human and nonhuman alike.
In kiss a pig contests these sensitive animals are surrounded by shrieking kids and the pigs have no understanding of
The teacher who would stop a child from being picked on should extend the same compassion toward animals.
From Animals We Can Learn Generosity and Forgiveness (Op-Ed) Geraldine was rescued a potbellied pig living at a lovely sanctuary called Kindness Ranch.
And those steps must include extending kindness to everyone including other animals as there are well-established links between abusing nonhuman animals and bullying humans (see also and Animal Cruelty and Antisocial Behavior:
Both humans and other animals will benefit. Bekoff's most recent Op-Ed was'The Dog's Telltale Tail.
At that time a shallow sea split North america in two and many animals lived on a long skinny continent called Laramidia that spanned from Alaska all the way to Mexico.
The emergence of flowering plants several million years earlier probably allowed mega-herbivores such as the imposing Triceratops to evolve from smaller herbivores that were about the size of a house cat Loewen said.
The majestic herbivore was roughly 16 feet (5 m) long and a relatively austere frill with little ornamentation surrounding its head.
Animals'Amazing Headgear Mates thought they were told sexy Loewen Livescience. The researchers have no idea
Researchers at Emory University near Atlanta have demonstrated that primates map their environment using grid cells specialized neurons that help the animals navigate by overlaying a virtual grid made of triangles atop regularly spaced points in the environment.
   Grid cells were identified for the first time in 2005 by a group of scientists in Norway interested in how the brain enables animals to navigate.
which animals construct their visual memories. That has important implications. One of Buffalo's research interests is the early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases.
Females in many animal species are believed often to be the picky sex when it comes to choosing a mate.
and in another image one of his young children is sitting on top of the animal as if riding it.
World's Cutest Baby Wild Animals The calf also appeared to be experiencing manatee cold-stress syndrome a condition that can lead to death in extreme cases Reinert added.
but arose from a common ancestor a small insect-eating scampering animal shortly after the dinosaurs'demise said researcher Maureen O'Leary at Stony Brook University in New york. The study was so thorough that the team made up of 23
10 Coolest Genome sequences The molecular team gathered DNA sequences of living animals while the morphology team analyzed the anatomy of both living and extinct mammals.
Bigger animals can eat a wider range of foods and be fiercer predators than their pip-squeak pals.
But because they eat more types of animals they also have more competition for those animals
while the size of the biggest and smallest of the animals didn't change over time there were more of the bigger beasts during the later periods of its evolution.
With the animals immobilized the researchers attached the collars which were equipped with GPS transmitters that beamed their location.
The adoption of the bow appears to have increased their hunting proficiency resulting in some game animals like deer eventually becoming overhunted
5 Animals With a Moral Compass The researchers then investigated what happens when both actors have a container.
if the behavior exists in other animals such as birds and fish that have been shown to gather information by eavesdropping on others.
This includes changes in the temperature and humidity of air and soil and the movement of animals.
A 2011 study funded by the National Science Foundation found that a fishbone configuration for example offers a solution that merges development with forest livelihood.
Such a network allows roads to be built far enough away from one another that animals and connected ecosystems can continue to thrive despite the intrusion of human infrastructure.
#Most Ancient Romans Ate Like Animals Ancient Romans are known for eating well with mosaics from the empire portraying sumptuous displays of fruits vegetables cakes and of course wine.
</p><p>This Cretaceous-era herbivore<i>Parasaurolophus</i>walked the Earth some 75 million years ago.
or perhaps to amplify the animals'calls. The little specimen dubbed Joe was so young that its crest was a mere bump on its head.</
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Unlike butterflies turtles get plenty of sodium through their largely carnivorous diet. Meat contains significant levels of the salt Torres told Livescience.
But herbivores sometimes struggle to get enough sodium and other minerals he added. They end up needing this extra mineral source he said.
and drowning in butterfly kisses are sometimes easier to photograph than unadorned animals which may be able to spot an approaching photographer more easily.
 The lack of salt in the region has driven other animals to exhibit unusual behaviors.
The Top 10 Weirdest Animal Discoveries Swabbing turtle eyeballs The butterflies also may be seeking other minerals in the turtles'tears
The elk were found Aug 27 on a 75000-acre ranch north of the city of Las vegas. Livestock deaths by themselves are not unusual there are many things that can fell large animals including predators poachers
and can kill large animals. There seems to be no evidence of any heavy pesticide use in the area that might have played a role in the die off.
and in New mexico specifically killing over 100 animals at one time would be an incredibly rare event.
Mass animal deaths are not uncommon. In just the past few weeks massive die offs of various animals have made news around the world.
China's Fuhe River was clogged last week with over 100 tons of dead silvery fish.
Last December an unknown animal attacked livestock in Shelby County Ky. leaving many of the victims with gnawed
T he tip of a more flexible hollow natural trichome could more readily skitter along the cuticle of a bug's surface until the sharp point ended up in a crevice
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