Real leather items by contrast use the whole skin of an animal not scraps. The advantages of bonded leather include its lower cost
and various crossbreeds because these grains also contain protein composites made from prolamins and glutelins.
Humans bears badgers and other animals have long been raiding the winter stores of their winged friends to harvest honey.
Gelatin itself is a collection of long stringy animal-based proteins called collagen which bond together in three-stranded helical structures similar to the two-stranded helices of DNA.
and hides of animals processed for their meat (usually cows and pigs). But hooves consist of a different protein keratin
Veal production has prompted strong criticism from animal welfare groups. Traditional practices place calves in small (30 by 70 inch) individual crates that prevent much movement;
By depriving the animals of exercise veal producers aim to reduce muscle growth keeping the meat tender.
and slaughter of animals too sick or injured to walk known as downer animals. The administration argued that the Federal Meat Inspection Act preempted California's law
and that only the federal government could regulate the care and handling of downer pigs at federally inspected slaughter plants.
This article was adapted from Obama Administration Seeks to Nullify Critical State Animal Cruelty Laws which first appeared as on the HSUS blog A Humane Nation.
and Lots of Confusion An enduring mantra among nutritionists from both a vegetarian and carnivorous perspective has been to eat more whole grains to reduce the risk of heart disease type 2 diabetes and colon cancer.
Most grain contains inedible chaff (fed to animals) bran (the oil-rich outer layer) germ (the grain seed's nutrient-rich embryo) and the endosperm (the starchy center.
Accounts of that day which became known as New england's Dark Day include mentions of midday meals by candlelight night birds coming out to sing flowers folding their petals and strange behavior from animals.
Animals such as cows on the other hand have specialized a stomach with four chambers to aid in the digestion of grass (a process called rumination.
Grazing animals have teeth that are adapted to continually grow replacing the worn tooth surfaces quickly.
In a 2008 study in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science researchers found that while grass consumption didn't often lead to vomiting dogs that seemed ill before eating grass were more likely to vomit than dogs that appeared to act normally beforehand.
#Why Do We Still Send Animals into Space? A gray rhesus macaque made history yesterday (Jan 28)
But sending other animals into space can provide valuable scientific lessons for interplanetary travel and space greenhouses he said.
Animals in Space: 10 Beastly Tales Front-line testers At the beginning of the space race countries sent chimpanzees dogs and rabbits into space as testers.
if the hapless animals could survive the weightlessness the extreme speeds and the rapid acceleration then humans had shot a fair as well.
Shared genes Animal experiments can also reveal how changes across the life span may translate to other species from earthworms all the way up to humans Szewczyk said.
Plants and animals in a given area form an ecological system of interacting species. Impacts on one
Many plants and animals are sensitive to shifts in temperature and precipitation and subsequently relocate to more suitable climates
Less snow means it s easier for big animals like elk to hang around and find food
Animals have an uncanny ability to form friendships outside their own species. Polar bears and dogs elephants and sheep even tigers and black bears have found kinship.
and some new places where they hadn't been said previously wildlife biologist Thomas Hughes of the National Wild Turkey Federation an organization that has reintroduced the animals into the wild.
Animals that are active at night like deer and raccoons are more likely than wild turkeys to destroy most crops according to work by researchers at Purdue University.
In the Southeast the traditional stronghold of the iconic animal populations have declined in some areas Hughes said.
'Hot products'Animals like parrots are also desirable to poachers in the same way certain hot products like cellphones
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 from predators inside the parks meaning they can help both people
and animals he said. Fenced reserves have helped South africa prevent more poaching than many of its neighbors Leakey added (athough even in South africa rhino poaching is at a record high.
or visiting traditional pharmacies have no idea these animals are dying out. 10 Species You Can Kiss Goodbye Increasing awareness would likely reduce demand for these products.
and gravy style of canned pet food that caused rapid kidney failure and death in hundreds and possibly thousands of animals.
That will also reduce the risk that the dead mice will poison other animals. The brown tree snake a native of Australia Papua new guinea
Yosemite s peaceful meadows and wetlands are the best place to spot the park s unique flora and fauna.
Animals sometimes drink salt from sweat urine and even blood de la Rosa said. These new findings support a 2012 report of a bee sipping the tears of a yellow-spotted river turtle in Ecuador's Yasunã National park. Similar findings were seen with butterflies drinking the tears of yellow-spotted river
and animals that find early pain and trauma or even chronic stress in utero can reverberate throughout the lifetime.
To find out if these experiences affect the animals they split a group of 20 ewes into three groups.
It may make some adaptive sense for an animal who experiences a challenge very early in life to gear up for challenges
and the manure of animals like cows chickens and pigs the researchers said. It's not clear exactly
Plucking a few feathers from shorebird hatchlings reveals how much mercury was in their eggs before they hatched.
and raised the hatchlings as if they were their own chicks. But this is the first time the USGS biologists have discovered a duck-avocet adoption.
Wolverines also have a distinctive mask of dark fur around their eyes and forehead and a stripe of blond or ivory fur that runs from each shoulder to the base of the animal's tail.
smaller animals like ground squirrels and rodents; and even birds'eggs and berries. They like meat best
and will even eat dead animals they did not kill. Wolverines have a keen sense of smell; they can smell prey 20 feet under the snow.
and kill hibernating animals. Wolverines are sneaky when finding food too. They have strong jaws
#In Africa, Anthrax Lures Animals to Their Death Areas contaminated with anthrax germs lure grazing animals like zebras
and wildebeest and these animals could spread the bacteria leading to new rounds of infections researchers say.
Grazing animals on the other hand are thought to get anthrax by ingesting the microbe. Scientists investigated zebra carcasses over a 115-square-mile 300 square kilometers) area at Etosha National park in Namibia from 2010 to 2013.
the disease can kill grazing herbivores within days after the animal is exposed to a lethal dose.
Would these areas be attractive to herbivores searching for high-quality food? Or would the remains of the carcass repel herbivores?
And for how long might this attraction or avoidance last? Watching the grazers For this study the researchers analyzed 35 sites that tested positive for anthrax
and 13 sites without carcasses to monitor the grazing activity of herbivores such as elephants wildebeest and zebras.
and her colleagues faced several challenges along the way including inquisitive animals knocking down cameras fires raging across the sites a run-in with a pride of lions on foot long hikes to sites in sweltering heat
I was concerned about metal stakes potentially harming animals if they knocked into them so we marked all the sites with PVC polyvinyl chloride pipe.
Initially the grazing animals avoided the carcass sites but over time they became attracted to these corpse-fertilized areas.
and to determine how different grazing animals respond to these infectious anthrax carcass sites. It remains uncertain
whether anthrax carcass sites are more attractive to herbivores than regular carcass sites are. Because anthrax prevents blood from clotting the researchers suspect that the anthrax-ridden carcasses might release more nutrients into the soil than regular carcasses do
thus making them more attractive to herbivores. It's possible Turner said. Whether it would be easy to detect
In addition Turner noted she would like to conduct a parallel study in the United states to see how North american herbivores respond to carcass sites.
but the video itself was likely confusing as the marmosets had seen never one before said Lydia Hopper a research scientist at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago who was not involved with the study.
and more intimidating to other males according to the San diego Zoo. The mane also protects the male's neck during fights over territory or mating rights.
African lions eat large animals that they find in the grasslands including antelopes zebras and wildebeest.
Asiatic lions eat large animals as well such as goats nilgai chital sambhar and buffaloes. They are known also to eat smaller animals.
Lions are very social cats and live in groups called prides. Asiatic and African lion prides are very different though.
and will often nurse from females other than their mother according to the San diego Zoo. The taxonomy of lions recognized by most experts is:
and diseases that can be spread from domestic dogs in nearby villages according to the National Zoo.
They form hunting parties to round up the fast animals found in their habitat. Lions also go toe-to-toe with animals much larger than themselves.
Lions can kill animals that weigh up to 1000 lbs. according to the Smithsonian National Zoo. To kill their prey lions use their powerful jaws to snap the prey's neck
or to strangle it to death. Male African lions that are trying to take over a pride will kill all of the cubs to avoid competition.
Elephant numbers have dropped across the continent raising grave conservation concerns about the iconic animals. Follow Andrea Thompson@Andreatoap Pinterest and Google+.
but because eucalyptus leaves are laced with a toxin the koalas can eat only a limited amount before the toxin harms the animals Kearney said.
A Bactrian camel according to the San diego Zoo grows to a shoulder height of 6 feet (1. 8 meters)
Their thick lips allow them to eat things that most other animals couldn't such as thorny plants.
Camels are herbivores though so you won't find them eating meat. Filling up on water when it's available is very important for camels.
However in recent years DNA analysis confirmed that C. ferus was a separate species the San diego Zoo says on its website.
Other facts Camels have been domesticated for 3000 years according to the San diego Zoo and used for transportation meat fur leather and milk.
In fact the animals are throwing up the contents of their stomach along with spit. This is a defense tactic
when the animals feel threatened. The large beasts make a variety of moans groans and deep throaty bellows.
A necklace of beaver ponds graced the valley below supporting a diverse community of plants and animals while storing precious water vital to human communities downstream.
and carting animals from habitat degraded by climate change to new sites. Yet where is the evidence that more of the same we-humans-know-best#kind of thinking that led to extinction of species massive habitat destruction hundreds of nonnative species
According to the US Forest Service these lands provide critical habitat for more than 1600 endangered threatened or sensitive species of plants and animals.
#Puzzling New Animals Look like Deep-sea Mushrooms Mysterious animals discovered offshore Australia resemble floppy chanterelle mushrooms
Humans and jellyfish are both in the Kingdom animalia for instance. Instead both of the strange new species bear an uncanny resemblance to several 600-million-year-old Ediacaran fossils the earliest animals.
One Ediacaran form had an identical three-lobed disc with a stalk with exactly the same gut branches as Dendrogramma Just said.
No other living animals have these characteristics so they are pretty special one way or another.
#7 Animals That Wore Backpacks for Science From falcons to cockroaches a myriad of different animals have donned backpacks in the name of science.
or other sensors and can tell scientists a great deal about the animals'movements feeding habits and interactions with others while also offering a creature's-eye view of the world.
Stars of the Animal kingdom Cockroaches When you see a cockroach crawling toward you have wished you ever you could just steer it away like a remote-controlled car?
and one to film the animal's eye movement). It turns out the peacock gals were mostly looking at the lower part of their suitor's feathers
Leatherback turtles If any animal seems built for wearing a backpack it's a turtle. Researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental science outfitted some leatherback turtles with backpacks that contained satellite-tracking devices.
The researchers monitored the animals near Costa rica Mexico Indonesia and off the California coast and identified danger zones where extensive fishing may harm the turtles according to Discovery. com. Dragonflies In a laboratory in Ashburn Virginia researchers are studying dragonflies by strapping tiny backpacks to the insects.
the drugs had been used to help animals gain weight faster. Stricter policies to reduce antibiotic contaminants in foods will not only help to fight antibiotic resistance
others are black with tan stripes white with tan stripes or all white (albino) according to the San diego Zoo.
65-305 kg) according to the Woodland Park Zoo. Tigers also have very long tails which can add 2. 3 to 3. 6 feet (0. 7 to 1. 1 m) to their overall length.
and taiga depending on the subspecies according to the San diego Zoo. All tigers are carnivores. Most of a tiger's diet consists of large prey such as pigs deer rhinos or elephant calves.
To kill their prey tigers will clamp down on the animal's neck with their jaws
and suffocate the animal. Though tigers are fierce hunters they are no strangers to failure.
Ninety percent of the time they don't catch their prey according to the Woodland Park Zoo.
Tigers are solitary creatures; they like to spend most of their time alone roaming their massive territories looking for food.
According to the San diego Zoo the Siberian tiger has the largest range. Its territory can be more than 4000 square miles (10000 square kilometers.
and a female may have as many as seven cubs at a time according to the San diego Zoo. Usually only two survive though
and lakes that are 3. 7 to 5 miles (6 to 8 km) wide according to Woodland Park Zoo.
because their body structure is so similar according to the Smithsonian National Zoo. Their teeth can be very long as well.
and animals that thrive in warmer climates have expanded their ranges. Many of the creatures with expanded ranges are invasive pests like the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) and the hemlock wooly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) both
and animals that become a significant threat to native flora and fauna. And so if we notice it at all we see that purple loosestrife is kind of pretty.
what is being called a baby chupacabra the legendary animal said to roam the countryside in search of blood.
so because it is said to drain the blood from animals such as goats chickens and other livestock.
The news and video footage of the small hairless caged animal went viral and left countless people scratching their heads wondering
Our 10 Favorite Monsters So is this animal the elusive chupacabra? It's clear that it's not
and elsewhere in recent years a simple look at the mouth demonstrates that it is physically impossible for the animals to suck blood.
So if the mysterious animal is not a chupacabra then what is it? The most likely answer is that it's a raccoon.
Animals that have lost most or all of their hair can be very difficult to identify correctly for the simple reason that people are used not to seeing the animals without hair.
Wildlife experts often see wild animals suffering from various stages of sarcoptic mange a skin disease that causes animals'hair to fall out
but most people do not. Healthy raccoons are instantly recognizable by their signature dark bandit mask coloring around their eyes.
But when their facial hair falls out due to disease it becomes much more difficult to identify the animal.
Another clue about the animal's origins can be found in where it was discovered: in a tree.
Furthermore in a video of the animal the Ratcliffe chupacabra picks up food with its paws to eat.
The reason that the Ratcliffe chupacabra has been called a chupacabra is not that the mysterious animal's characteristics match those of the legendary vampire
That chupacabra has faded into folklore and myth but over the past decade any strange animal
The word has become a sort of catch-all term for weird animals living or dead. It's not surprising that the chupacabra continues to be found
#Platypus Facts The platypus is one of the most unusual creatures in the animal kingdom. Platypuses (which is the correct plural form not platypi) have shaped a paddle tail like a beaver;
They thought that a trickster had sewn two animals together according to the BBC. Platypuses are among the few venomous mammals.
Its tail adds an additional 5 inches (13 cm) to the animal's length. An individual weighs about 3 lbs.
when the animals are swimming. When platypuses are on land their webbing retracts making the claws more pronounced.
The animals walk awkwardly on their knuckles to protect the webbing. The bill of a platypus sometimes called a duck-billed platypus has a smooth texture that feels like suede.
Platypuses are carnivorous which means they eat meat but not plants. They hunt for their food in the water where they live.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the animals as a Least Concern though the organization admits it has no idea how large
and eyes and noses that seal shut to protect the animals while they are underwater.
#Why Global Food companies Are Dumping Animal Cruelty (Op-Ed) Josh Balk is food policy director at The Humane Society of the United states (HSUS.
Consumers today are increasingly demanding food that does not originate from animals that have experienced cruelty.
but the reality is raised most animals for food today grow up inside crowded factories not farms
But dietary concepts that adhere to higher animal welfare standards like the Three Rs (reducing
Customers find abuses to animals to be unacceptable and such practices will no longer be tolerated. Balk's most recent Op-Ed was Why Does Less Meat Mean Less Heat?
and how those animals thrived on the landscape. The ancient ecosystem was detailed today (Feb 5) in the journal Nature.
which in turn kept the animals alive. If a big jolt in climate disrupted one part of the chain for instance by depleting the forbs that may have led the whole system to collapse Edwards speculated.
This could bode well for alpine bumblebees in the future Dillon said as climate change may force animals up to higher elevations than they once inhabited due to warming conditions at lower elevations.
or any of their crossbreeds unless the grains are stripped first of gluten. People with certain digestive condtions such as celiac disease are advised to avoid eating gluten.
One reason is that caffeine seems to prevent herbivores from munching on the plant's leaves Albert said.
providing future generations with the awe that comes from knowing that iconic animals like elephants rhinos
when they come in he said. 3. Stay in the sun Tick nymphs have leaky cuticles
If you have an amazing animal photo you'd like to share for a possible story
Creepy, Freaky Creatures That Are (Mostly) Harmless From snaggletoothed sharks to giant crabs nature is full of animals that frighten people often for no good reason.
I often collect animals by pinning them to a tree trunk with two fingers and then using my thumb underneath their bodies to pull them off of the tree.
The most common way rabies is transmitted is through the bite from an infected animal and as long as you don't try to catch
or dying animals that were barely capable of swimming let alone molesting a human. Still scared?
and like most wild animals will flee when encountering a human said Charles Welch the conservation coordinator at the Duke Lemur Center.
B & T Media Group Inc. Shutterstock. com) Cockroach No list of unnerving animals would be complete without cockroaches
Photos of Incredible Animal Migrations A tentative success story In 1940 there were just 22 whooping cranes in the world.
See Photos of the World's Cutest Baby Wild Animals I don't know that they actually think of us as whooping cranes said Glenn Olsen a veterinarian at the U s. Geological Survey's (USGS) Patuxent Wildlife Research center in Maryland who said he spends much of May through July
Also in such an arms race plants have it harder than herbivores because their lifespan can be hundreds of times longer than the average leaf-eater
That is why a single tropical tree may have hundreds of distinct chemical compounds in its defence arsenal against herbivores which makes the analysis harder.
and total numbers) between trees and herbivores but that may not actually be true according to Jeff Ollerton professor of biodiversity at the University of Northampton.
and their herbivores and then record their interactions. While other explanations will certainly have some role to play Coley
Climate, Animals & Plants The Permian period was the final period of the Paleozoic era. Lasting from 299 million to 251 million years ago it followed the Carboniferous period
Two important groups of animals dominated the Permian landscape: Synapsids and Sauropsids. Synapsids had skulls with a single temporal opening
In the early Permian it appeared that the Synapsids were to be the dominant group of land animals.
This animal had a lizard-like body and a large bony sail#fin on its back that was used probably for thermoregulation.
and teeth are closer to mammal skulls than to reptiles Another genus of Synapsids Lystrosaurus was a small herbivore about 3 feet long (almost 1 meter) that looked something like a cross between a lizard and a hippopotamus.
These animals were much closer to mammals. Their legs were under their bodies giving them the more upright stance typical of quadruped mammals.
The second group of land animals the Sauropsid group weathered the Permian Extinction more successfully
Scientists estimate that more than 95 percent of marine species became extinct and more than 70 percent of land animals.
Finally it would be much easier to transport insects to Mars than to send large animals.
Scientists have synthesized successfully meat using a 3d printer to align stem cells from animals in laboratory Petri dishes creating both hamburger
If the ancient animals and plants featured in this book could look upon us they might feel sorry for us.
what is being called a baby chupacabra the legendary animal said to roam the countryside in search of blood.
so because it is said to drain the blood from animals such as goats chickens and other livestock.</
because it makes up part of the backbone of DNA you can t make DNA without phosphorus. We get our phosphorus by eating plants that have drawn up phosphorus through their roots or by eating animals that ate the plants (or from expensive tablets).
and animals has been underestimated. When I entered the field of rainforest conservation more than three decades ago there were two basic areas of focus:
and the animals that had eaten plants the carbon ends up in our bodies. The sixth-lightest element on the periodic table carbon exists in nature as two stable isotopes:
Its molars were a mere millimeter (0. 04 inches) long so small that paleontologists declined to chip the animal's tiny jaw from the rock surrounding it.
During the time these creatures lived other animals were pipsqueaks too the earliest known horse
998 grams) according to the Oakland Zoo. One of the smallest megabats the long-tongued fruit bat (Macroglossus minimus) has a wingspan of only 10 inches (25.4 centimeters) according to the Smithsonian Institution.
and seclusion for rearing the animals'young. Bats live together in groups called colonies which contain 100 to 1000 bats.
and deer but they don't suck blood like the legends say Rather they make A v-shaped cut and then lick up the blood according to the San diego Zoo.
Bats have some unique mating behaviors not seen in other animals. Male and female bats meet in hibernation sites called hibernacula where they breed.
This white powdery-looking fungus a member of a group of cold-loving fungi calledgeomyces coats the muzzles ears
and wings of bats and has meant death for hundreds of thousands of the animals in the northeastern United states. Related Devastating Disease Found in Endangered Gray Bats Bats see using echolocation.
The animals make high-frequency yells and analyze the location of objects around them by perceiving how the sound bounces back off the object.
To discover this the researchers studied flight patterns of the bats after objects were placed in the animals'paths.
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