Although health officials still haven't confirmed the species of animal that is the source of the H7n9 bird flu outbreak in China most people who fell ill had contact with birds or pigs according to a new report.
whether they had been in contact with animals 59 patients or 77 percent reported recent exposure to animals the report said.
Most (76 percent) had contact with chickens (including four who were poultry workers) while 20 percent reported exposure to ducks and 7 percent to swine the report said.
A ban on the sale of poultry in market stalls disinfection of markets or market closures may need to be considered to prevent the spread of the virus from animals to people the researchers said.
Because animals like to stop and drink at such watering holes Jacques wondered whether ancient man may have settled nearby as well.
The team uncovered roughly 350 animal bones and 12500 flint tools or fragments as well as lots of evidence of burning.
See Photos of the Stonehenge Hunting ground The spring may have attracted originally large animals to it which would have aided hunting
and the inhabitants of the animal kingdom are no exception with peacocks representing particularly showy lovers.
Top 10 Swingers of the Animal kingdom Yorzinski conducted the research as a doctoral candidate at the University of California Davis and Duke university.
Tallest animal: Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world. Males can grow up to 18 feet (5. 5 m) tall
and females can reach 14 feet (4. 3 m) tall. Their babies called calves are born 6 feet (1. 8 meters) tall
At the time much of the land around Versailles was uncultivated allowing wild animals to flourish.
And the first vertebrate animals colonized land. Life in the Paleozoic The Paleozoic began with the Cambrian period 53 million years best known for ushering in an explosion of life On earth.
This Cambrian explosion included the evolution of arthropods (ancestors of today's insects and crustaceans) and chordates (animals with rudimentary spinal cords.
These vertebrates were called tetrapods and they were widely diverse: Their appearance ranged from lizardlike to snakelike
 As the tetrapods took over they had company: The Devonian period saw the rise of the first land-living arthropods including the earliest ancestors of spiders.
Long before birds evolved tetrapods began laying eggs on land for the first time during this period allowing them to break away from an amphibious lifestyle.
Tetrapods were becoming more specialized and two new groups of animals evolved. The first were marine reptiles including lizards and snakes.
Terrestrial vertebrates evolved to become herbivores taking advantage of the new plant life that had colonized the land.
UC Davis'Gabriel and his colleagues are seeing the effects of these chemicals on the fisher cat a carnivore being considered for Endangered Species Act listing.
The animals are also passing the poison on to their kits when the babies nurse Gabriel said.
The animals which travel long distances are considered environmental indicators of healthy forests. Since we often work in remote locations we sometimes make surprising discoveries in this case one that appears to be important for our understanding of human cultural history in the region Alexine Keuroghlian a researcher with WCS's Brazil program said in a statement.
In addition to human figures and geometric shapes many different kinds of animals were represented from big cats and armadillos to birds and reptiles but alas no peccaries.
The animal's range extends from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. It faces threats in the wild including deforestation and hunting.
One of the richest sources of information about life in the Pleistocene epoch can be found in the La Brea Tar pits in Los Angeles where remains of everything from insects to plant life to animals were preserved including a partial skeleton of a female human and a nearly complete woolly mammoth.
About 13000 years ago more than three-fourths of the large Ice age animals including woolly mammoths mastodons saber-toothed tigers
and guide who helped me survey the plants and animals of this area when I first arrived over 30 years ago.
A new study found that the complexity of fractal patterns on a bird's chest communicates the animal's fitness to potential mates.
Our work justifies further studies on fractal perception in animals depending on their visual processing abilities the researchers wrote.
Nonhuman animals may similarly prefer traits with higher (or lower) FDS particularly if these advertise a better individual quality as we report here.
but instead the normal result of wild animals eating the pony's organs and scattering its entrails.
All the injuries can be attributed to those caused by other wild animals. This incident received significant media reporting some
and ritually sacrifice animals especially ones as cute and beloved as ponies there's little wonder why the media ran with it.
After all presumably dead animals are not uncommon on farms and ranches; surely a livestock official would be able to tell the difference between an animal that died of natural causes
and was set upon by scavengers and an animal carefully killed in some sort of ritual sacrifice right?
Spooky! Top 10 Unexplained Phenomena Not necessarily for several reasons. One problem is that most ranchers
and livestock officials have no idea what occurs in a real animal ritual sacrifice so they can hardly make a valid comparison.
suspects include wild animals disease or even lightning. The fact is scavenger animals eat soft tissues of the body first including the parts missing from the pony:
the genitals eyes tongue and ears. Since the pony had been dead for several days before its body was found there was plenty of time for birds maggots blowflies
and other carrion-eating animals to scavenge on or even carry off these mysteriously missing body parts.
and even livestock experts may not recognize what killed an animal since it is often difficult
or even by handling a dead animal. Instead to determine what killed the animal the person studying the body should examine carcasses for wounds hemorrhage bruises broken bones and feeding.
If necessary the entire carcass should be skinned and opened to identify internal wounds and other factors which help confirm the cause of death.
For example some animals are killed by a single grip at the throat which causes suffocation but leaves little external evidence.
The misidentification of normal animal predation is a common element in mysterious animal deaths such as cattle mutilations
In other words just because the pony's cause of death was unknown doesn't logically mean the animal was sacrificed by satanists witches or anyone else;
or for any vegan animals that accumulate toxins in their fat; they don't cleanse themselves with their raw plant-based diet.
Raw-only foods are natural No other animal cooks food many a raw vegan has stated. One can just as well say that no other animal combines their kale
and clover with tropical bananas in a high-speed blender to make the foods more palatable and digestible.
Or that no other animal plays chess. Judging what is natural is a slippery slope.
A traditional animal-based diet eaten by natives of Siberia is just as natural as a traditional diet eaten by unnamed tribes in the Amazon.
But said Baldwin it's also an example of the importance of studying animals in a natural habitat rather than just in the lab. We never would have discovered the function of this gene
Ten years later a group of researchers and conservationists gathered in Washington D c. today (March 15) for a forum called TEDXDEEXTINCTION hosted by the National geographic Society to talk about how to revive extinct animals from the Tasmanian tiger and the saber-toothed cat to the woolly mammoth and the North american passenger pigeon.
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If de-extinction research has done anything for science it's forced researchers to look at the quality of the DNA in dead animals said science journalist Carl Zimmer whose article on de-extinction featured on the cover of the April issue of National geographic magazine.
Those of us who attempt to reintroduce zoo-bred species that have gone extinct in the wild have one question at the top of our list:
No animal let alone a frog has been known to do this change one organ in the body into another Archer said.
#San diego Zoo Welcomes Season's 1st Condor Chick The San diego Zoo welcomed its first California condor chick of the hatching season on Feb 24 the zoo announced yesterday (March 11) as part of their breeding program
and has a healthy appetite eating up to 15 mice a day the zoo said in a statement.
Like other condors born at the zoo Wesa will eventually be released into the wild. Senior condor keeper Ron Webb has been caring for the baby bird with the help of a condor hand puppet.
 We want it to be a nice wild animal not relying on people for food.
In a photo released by the zoo Webb is examining an egg on March 11 that he estimates will hatch in 21 days.
When the zoo began its captive breeding program in the 1980s there were only 22 birds in the wild.
Since then the zoo has hatched 173 chicks and released 80 birds into the wild. There are now an estimated 400 wild birds.
or animals he thinks made the sounds. Paste them in the science notebook. Ask: oewhich sounds were louder?
This technique allows researchers to attach harmless glow-in-the-dark tags to specific proteins in animals.
Study researcher Stefan Moisyadi a bioscientist from the University of Hawaii at Manoa explained in a statement that the GFP in the piglets is marker to show that we can take a gene that was not originally present in the animal
The researchers say the ultimate goal of their work is to figure out how to introduce foreign genes into larger animals that could result in more efficient treatments for disease.
The plan to build any kind of road through the Serengeti is controversial because of concerns about the road's impact on the many animals that migrate through the area.
These animals include more than 1 million wildebeest and zebra which make up one of the most amazing animal migrations on the planet.
Truckers currently have to take a road that circumvents Tanazania's Serengeti National park and Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve a long journey.
Incredible Animal Migrations International pressure from environmental groups helped force the Tanzanian government to scrap plans for a paved highway through the Serengeti in June 2011 according to the BBC.
and himself a paleoanthropologist said building an elevated highway would allow animals to cross underneath.
It would be a grand spectacle to see animals migrating by underneath and signal Africa's commitment to wildlife Leakey said during the keynote speech he gave at the meeting.
While leading the Kenya Wildlife Service in 1989 Leakey came up with the idea of torching 12 tons of elephant tusks to bring attention to the widespread poaching of the animals for their tusks
Leakey noted that electrified fences were quite capable of stopping the large animals. In places where they've been installed he added sheep herders have come to rely on fences to protect their flock meaning they can help both people
and animals he said. Â Â The talk was received warmly by the audience a mixture of biologists criminologists conservationists and other curious students.
The only other kind of animal where you see that are modern-day birds where it's called a pygostyle
but oviraptors were not flying animals they had feathers but they didn't have big broad wings Persons said.
Venoms from other insect-eating animals such as centipedes and scorpions may also contain peptides that could be used as bioinsecticides.
#Snow leopard's Fate Hinges on Historic Talks (Op-Ed) Bradnee Chambers Executive secretary of the United nations Environment Program Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals contributed this article
but increasing threats from a growing human footprint are dissecting their habitat putting the survival of these animals at risk.
Also contributing to the snow leopard's downfall is its splendid coat essential for the animal to survive the bitter cold of The himalayas the Hindu kush the Pamirs and the Altai Mountains of Central asia at altitudes as high as 5 kilometers (3 miles.
In today's market a top-quality garment made of leopard skin made up of between six and twelve animals could command a price as high as $60000 in affluent global markets.
However the breeding population is probably little more than 2500 animals distributed over an area of more than 1 million square kilometers (386102 square miles.
and animals signal each other with vibrations. Even trees and plants fizz with the sound of tiny air bubbles bursting in their plumbing.
or an animal passing on a trail. And like the wind sound is a wave that travels through air.
And the fizzy bubble bursts in xylem are ultrasonic about 300 kilohertz detectable only by insects and some other animals.
and spine and concluded the animal had adapted to walk on two legs. That was a bold claim.
It would be really extraordinary to see an animal we don't think is closely related to us who got around this way said William Sanders a paleoanthropologist at the University of Michigan who was involved not in the study.
It's been a tradition to eat animals that we study Girguis said. I figured that
In the 1800s scientists in Europe tried to eat every animal and bird they could import.
Denise Dearing a biologist at the University of Utah studies how herbivores deal with toxins from plants such as creosote juniper and alpine avens a wildflower.
That's because the animals emerge from their icy tombs looking like furry freezer-burned jerky thanks to decomposition
and a strong aroma Guthrie wrote in the book Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe:
if I don't clean the chambers very thoroughly after use that the next animal I put in that chamber will die Seibel said.
It really gives us an insight into how complex social-learning behaviors can arise in animals said study researcher Erika Dawson a doctoral student at Queen Mary University of London.
which they in turn associated with food. 10 Really Weird Animal Discoveries Dawson and her colleagues thought that bees might be taking a similar series of logical steps.
Lots of animals from sea slugs up to primates learn by copying she said and the researchers hope to learn
 The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES for short) banned the ivory trade in 1989
The sugary fluid which has sunk to the bottom has killed thousands of fish attracting sharks and other scavengers.
Due to their tiny size and perhaps because they only live in certain areas in Australia the animals haven't been documented well.
Livescience corresponded with Otto to hear more about his experiences with these remarkable animals. Livescience:
People associate complex behavior usually with large animals usually vertebrates animals with backbones so it is unexpected very to see a similar behavior in much smaller invertebrates in particular spiders that most people hate so much.
which broadcast an animal's evolutionary fitness. Emailâ Douglas Mainâ or follow him onâ Twitterâ orâ Google+.
Chris Remien a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis uses math to better understand how biological markers relate to the diets of animals
The food and water animals consume leave chemical signatures (biomarkers) in their tissues; however metabolism sometimes alters these signatures.
Using carbon isotopes in hair we can see exactly how much grass these animals are eating
or animals that have been created with gene-splicing techniques or genetic engineering. According to the Worldwatch Institute corn accounts for 31 percent of all genetically modified crops.
According to the stories the forefather gods Tepew and Q ukumatz oebrought forth the earth from a watery void and endowed it with animals
OK people still love pictures of animals acting like humans but how does one explain the Christmas cards that show a dead bird lying on its back with the words May yours be a joyful Christmas above?
For vegetarians printed meat somewhat circumvents concerns about harmful or destructive use of animals for food.
Live animals are used only to provide cells from which cell lines can be grown (though the blood of unborn cows is needed to culture most cells.
Ethical vegans may still object at the use of nonhuman animals for human purposes; while non-destructive it is still exploitative.
if there is no animal slaughter involved. While we typically oeeat with our eyes and printed meat could be made in familiar shapes
#The Wackiest Moms of the Animal kingdom Mom mother madre mutter mama mum whatever you call her everyone has one.
While Mother's day celebrates human mothers there are a lot of other moms in the animal kingdom worth a shout out.
Here's a look at some of the wackiest animal mothers. 1. Kangaroo adopters The roo riding around in a kangaroo's pouch may not be her own.
Still some animals such as sea lions have been known to adopt in the wild. 2. Cuckoo sneak When it comes to rearing young female cuckoo birds farm the task out to others.
but transferring fluids may be a form of social behavior in the ants scientists say. 4. Monkey baby killers Some animals head off motherhood before it starts to spare their babies undue hardship after they're born.
Mama frog then feeds her hatchlings some of her own unfertilized eggs over the next six to eight weeks of their development into frogs.
and then the other animals follow. We also carry a laptop into the forest and
because we know there are nice wetlands with herbivores on the other side. We know that
or they get their animals. The Assam Forest Department is allowed to kill them. Kaziranga has about 2200 Asiatic one-horned rhinos India's biggest conservation success story.
Lycopene is a potent scavenger of gene-damaging free radicals. But don't expect to get it from a supplement.
#Too much Deer Pee Changing Northern Forests The booming deer population in the northern United states is bad for the animal's beloved hemlocks a new study finds.
Herbivores like deer interact with the ecosystem in two ways. One is by eating plants
and animals may change their migration or breeding times. Longer growing seasons may mean increased forest growth
Of course there is no cholesterol in margarine as cholesterol is produced only by living animals. There is no cholesterol in pretzels either.
Apparently in humans'earlier evolutionary stages plenty of wild greens lean animals which grazed on high omega-3 grasses
And no longer do our animals graze on high-omega-3 grasses but on grains instead. This changes the fatty acid composition of the meat to our detriment.
Burrowing animals such as shipworms and zebra mussels can destroy wood underwater making dating impossible. Here underwater trees in the Great lakes may not be subject to shipworms zebra mussels are slowly eating through the wood.
The international ivory trade was banned in 1989 under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and profit from the deaths of these magnificent animals FWS officials said in a fact sheet.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) banned the international ivory trade in 1989.
 FWS officials say they are working with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to develop a creative and informative use of the crushed ivory with a goal to educate the public about poaching.
and animals that interact with one another. For instance historical data being preserved by USA-NPN revealed thatâ ruby-throated hummingbirdsâ are arriving in the eastern United states between 11 and 18 days earlier than they used to depending on latitude.
but forms a tangled mesh in water that streams through it as the animals swim.
We think of bowhead whales generally as slow-feeding animals that are basically mowing the lawn and that humpback whales are more energetic
#What 11 Billion People Mean for Earth's Animals Editor's note: Â By the end of this century Earth may be home to 11 billion people the United nations has estimated earlier than previously expected.
Lemurs descend from animals that arrived on the isolated island between 50 million and 60 million years ago.
But it's not just the animals'homes that are vanishing sometimes the animals themselves are taken.
According to the IUCN 20000 species of animals and plants are considered at high risk for extinction meaning there is a good chance they could die out
Some of Earth's most iconic animals like the lemurs are threatened with habitat loss displaced by growing human populations and increased demand for agricultural products.
Some good news is that the richest animal diversity is found in a few places which could make conservation of these vital places easier.
about 60 percent of the country's threatened animals live in these coastal forests according to the Nature Conservancy an international conservation group.
animals and their habitats. There are only about 6000 wild orangutans left and about 1000 are being killed each year primarily from habitat destruction according to the Orangutan Project an environmental group
whose mission is to save the animals. Â The same is happening in Peru where forests are being cleared to make way for palm tree plantations said Clinton Jenkins a conservation scientist at North carolina State university.
or food grown on former grasslands represents a second major threat to animals. It's not just sheer population growth that matters
But in China especially and throughout Southeast asia demand has skyrocketed also for the animals themselves or at least parts of their bodies.
It's hard to imagine that animals like African elephants and rhinos will survive unless countries where they live do more to protect them Hannah said.
and perhaps more protected areas for wildlife Jenkins said. 7 Iconic Animals Humans Are Driving to Extinction The most effective way to fight poaching would be to decrease demand said Kenyan scientist and conservationist Richard Leakey at a conference
which the animals'fins are hacked off and they are thrown back into the ocean to slowly die.
and other large animals may be relatively stable he added. Solutions To prevent the expected rise in human population from wiping out animal populations more of the biologically important areas need to be protected most scientists agree.
and 121 reptile species making it the most diverse or second most diverse place for each group of animals worldwide according to a 2010 PLOS ONE study.
Another primary way to conserve animals in the face of growing populations is to simply make people aware of the decline of various species. Recent analyses have shown that 80 percent of people in China have some ivory
Ultimately however saving animals will require more public awareness and action said Mark Costello a researcher at New zealand's University of Auckland.
Although they're called fainting goats the animals don't actually fall unconscious. They're just paralyzed for a few moments.
The animals stay that way for 10 to 15 seconds at which point they rise
While the condition produces dramatic effects in the animals the neurological disorder doesn't hurt a domestic goat's health in the long run according to the IFGA.
But are nonhuman animals ever uncertain? When we feel uncertainty instead of risking the consequences of a bad
But whether a small and relatively simple brained animal such as an insect can do so has not even been considered until now.
It s difficult enough to study cognition in nonspeaking animals. How did we go about testing
As with other animals this behaviour could be explained by associative mechanisms. Although opting out was not directly rewarding bees could have associated opting out with avoidance of punishment (drinking a bitter solution)
(or any other animal) brain to compute uncertainty as it would be to classify and associate outcomes.
Because the arrival of humans coincided with dramatic changes in the animal and plant life of Australia many scientists have speculated that humans impacted the continent's flora and fauna.
For instance humans may have burned the land perhaps accidentally or to concentrate game animals. This shift in plant life would have driven these plant-dependent herbivores s well as the carnivores that preyed on those herbivores o extinction.
However other scientists have suggested different explanations for these changes. For instance the extinction of many plant-eating megafauna in Australia could have triggered major upsets
when it came to which plants dominated the continent. To shed light on this mystery a team of investigators have reconstructed past changes in vegetation by looking at ancient sediment from the Murray Canyons Group region offshore southern Australia.
Instead this discovery hints that an extinction of megafauna herbivores that normally browsed on C3 plants allowing trees and shrubs to rise in dominance.
what caused the extinction of Australia's megafauna herbivores in the first place. Humans remain one potential culprit for the megafauna extinction they did arrive on the continent about 45000 to 54000 years ago before this shift in the region's plant life
or bone from animals infected with the anthrax bacterium. The most common form of the disease cutaneous anthrax is contracted
and animal hides according to the U s. National Library of Medicine. Those with pulmonary anthrax are at risk of respiratory collapse
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