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Synopsis: 4.4. animals: Animal:

the last known passenger pigeon, died in Cincinnati Zoo. But if Church has his way, this majestic sight could one day return to our skies.

he and other scientists are dreaming up ambitious plans to resurrect long-dead animals from pigeons to Tasmanian tigers and wooly mammoths.

A key part of this grand ambition lies in the lines of test tubes frozen in liquid nitrogen in a Californian zoo.

In 1972, Oliver Ryder, a geneticist at the San diego Zoo, had the visionary idea of freezing skin samples from endangered animals in the hope they might help protect these species in the future.

Many captive animals suffer from genetic abnormalities and inbreeding, and Ryder imagined that his repository of animal cells could be used long after their donors died to help zoo veterinarians manage captive populations.

He never viewed his"Frozen Zoo  oe which now stores cells from 9 000 individual vertebrates belonging to more than 1, 000 different species oe as a way of producing new animals.

As far as he and other scientists knew,  only stem cells found in embryos had the ability to transform into the building blocks of  any part of the body,

whether a cell in the liver or the eye. Ryder's collection of skin cells were thought just that

it was implanted into the uterus of another animal, which carried the clone to birth.""Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell

From dogs to cows, scientists rushed to clone a menagerie of animals using Wilmut's technique, known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT.

Many animals were born unhealthy and the cloning process was inefficient, with success rates of around 1%.Less charitable critics still call these efforts stunts,

"Producing the odd animal here and there, which may be sick, didn't seem a very sensible thing to do,

Skin cells could be converted into sperm that could create an animal through in vitro fertilisation (IVF), or even transformed into whole animals.

Both feats have been accomplished in mice and they should be possible in other animals, scientists say.

As a first step, Ryder and a team of stem cell scientists have reprogrammed the skin cells from a northern white rhinoceroses named Fatu, one of seven still alive,

With extinct animals, scientists need to take more involved measures to recover the complete DNA sequence oe its genome.

though, might lie in nature's version of Ryder's Frozen Zoo. Flash-frozen remains of wooly mammoths have been found preserved under the Siberian permafrost,

but they still contain the animal's genetic code. This genome is shredded into short fragments,

and more ancient animal genomes are on the way, such as the Tasmanian tiger. These genomes exist in the form of computerised data,

producing a chimera animal with some tissues made from elephant cells and others from mammoths.

What is more, the technologies that scientists are hoping to use have mostly been developed for use in laboratory animals and valuable livestock only.

Basic genetic principles may carry over to more exotic animals but many steps will not, particularly those involving reproduction and development.

humans resurrect an extinct animal. A wealthy American investor approached him several years ago and asked Poinar to quit his academic job and work full time on bringing back woolly mammoths.

There could even be an upside for other animals on the brink of extinction.""If there's enough people enthusiastic about bringing an extinct species like a mammoth or passenger pigeon,

"Previously we just raised food for humans and animals. In 2011 more corn went to biofuel than to feed for the first time in the US.

#In a plutonomy there is no such animal as the U s. consumer#or the UK consumer,

Extinction Revivalists People who revive extinct animals. 38. Robotic Earthworm Drivers The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills

We have other types of molecules that make up plants and animals, but on the molecular level there is no such thing as vegetarian and non-vegetarian molecules.

and offices are now creating information layers that will touch every plant and animal on our planet as well.

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.##The falling costs and growing sophistication of robots have touched off a renewed debate among economists

and technologists over how quickly jobs will be lost. This year, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee, economists at the Massachusetts institute of technology, made the case for a rapid transformation.

as well as the petting-zoo layout that encourages customers to test-drive products. But Apple s success, it turns out, rests on a set of intangibles;

Robo-petting etting a living animal has long been known to lower blood pressure and release a flood of mood-lifting endorphins.

but its sensors allow it to mimic the reaction of a live animal whether you give it a nervous scratch or a slow, calm rub.

#Cow collar texts ranchers when animals are sick or in heat Even cows can benefit from having a mobile device.

monitoring the health of their animals and prevent accidental deaths. The Silent Herdsman collar will track the movements of the cow using the same type of sensors found in Wii devices.

if their animals are in heat, going into labor or in distress. Researchers also hope to determine which movements the sensor will pick up to determine

and other unwanted animals. The density of the netting can be adjusted to match specific requirements.

Auquaponics Tech For those of you not familiar with the term, aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines traditional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, crayfish,

Animals, Smith argues, are autonomous. Thus, in the eyes of the law, an autonomous vehicle is arguably similar to a horse-drawn buggy.

And under the Geneva convention, a basic legal requirement for drivers#hether of animals or of cars#s the same.

even though many species of animals are able to completely regrow lost parts. It s long been known that alligators are lost able toregrow teeth, for example,

While currently focusing on people and cars, they d like to add animals and weather conditions soon. 3. Wireless Electricity The notion of wireless electric power has been around far longer than one might think:

Hyperloop, while similar in the broad sense, is a different animal. The cars are bigger

If their results can be replicated in other animals it could provide a way for virtually unlimited supplies of genetically superior farm animals or other animals important to research.

If the inhibitor is equally effective in other animals, the technique opens up the possibility of cloning highly-valued animals such as prized cattle or racehorses,

or genetically modified animals used in medical research. As the authors note in the study:#

#oeour results show that repeated iterative recloning is possible and suggest that, with adequately efficient techniques,

it may be possible to reclone animals indefinitely.##That s good news for those that have turned already to cloning to create a small pack ofsuper sniffing inspector dogs at airports,

animals and fungi, revolutionizing genetic engineering. The protein, called Cas9, is quite simply a way to more accurately cut a piece of DNA.#

If you want to bring back ice age animals, Cas9 might be the way to do it. Anything like that is a long way off.

among others. 2.)Cloning with cells from cryopreserved tissue of a recently extinct animal can generate viable eggs.

and animals are one thing, but when it comes to tampering with humans the stakes get much higher.

if we bring some of our extinct animals back? Are the close proximities of animals that Brand describes close enough,

or is this a dangerous area to be playing in? I d love to hear your thoughts?

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.

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.

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

when an animal died to within about one year. We're not the first to try this but

and animals in the food chain absorb the carbon atoms explained study coauthor Thure Cerling a geochemist at the University of Utah.

And then an animal comes along and eats the plant and makes it into hair

and Uno are also using the radiocarbon dating technique to investigate the growth rate of animals. Now that we can determine growth rates in teeth we can use them as a tape recorder of sorts Uno said.

what the animal was eating by adding data from stable carbon isotopes. Potential uses Samuel Wasser a conservation biologist at the University of Washington who did not participate in the study said the new study is a very important development

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.

But the parallels between the animal-cloning procedure and the new human one have triggered concern.

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.

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

providing future generations with the awe that comes from knowing that iconic animals like elephants rhinos

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

Another example is the recent news that scientists have discovered an animal that runs faster than any other and it s a mite.

It is well known that smaller animals can run faster when measured by body size even the humble cockroach beats the cheetah on that measure.

But a simple biomechanical model applying the appropriate scaling laws would suggest that all animals should be able to run at the same absolute speed not the same relative speed.

if the forest monitors see an animal or its tracks they take photos with their smartphones he said.

ranges of animals such as the tiger elephant rhino and orangutan; and floral diversity according to a statement from Eyes on the Forest.

Elephant tracks Despite many efforts to curb elephant poaching including a 1989 agreement among CITES (Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna

The group uses GPS collars to track elephants in Africa providing the organization with live detailed information about the animals'location and movements.

With knowledge of the elephants'routes the organization can better protect the animals from poachers

Nations pledge to double tiger numbers Thirteen countries that are home to the world's last wild tigers have pledged to try to double the animal's numbers to about 7

Studies in animals suggest that exposure to bisphenol A a hormone-disrupting plasticizer used in food-can linings

Scientist threatened Animal-rights activists mailed razor blades and a'threatening note'to neuroscientist David Jentsch at the University of California, Los angeles, in November, the university said last week.

Animals engineered with pinpoint accuracytwo genetically engineered farm animals reported today illustrate how far from Frankenstein s stitched-together monster animal biotechnology has come.

One of those animals, a cow, secretes milk that lacks an allergy-inducing protein because researchers accurately blocked its production using the technique of RNA interference1.

Originally, engineered animals were produced with the aim of making food safer, healthier and more abundant.

Yet despite years of investment, almost no animal has been approved by regulatory agencies around the world. Wagner says he has tasted not the milk from his special cow

or a cell culture or a transgenic animal and using it to generate thousands more to sell again at a fraction of the original price."

Animal activism Animal-rights activists occupied an animal facility at the University of Milan in Italy on 20 april.

They demanded that all its 800 animals (mostly genetically modified mice) be transferred into their care.

After 12 hours of negotiations, the activists agreed to leave with fewer than 100 animals,

but mixed up some of the remaining animals and cage labels to disrupt experiments. Researchers say they have lost years of work.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the branch of the agriculture department responsible for overseeing GM CROPS,

Animals Smith argues are autonomous. Thus in the eyes of the law an autonomous vehicle is arguably similar to a horse-drawn buggy.

And under the Geneva convention a basic legal requirement for drivers whether of animals or of cars is the same.

or animal that has been modified genetically through the addition of a small amount of genetic material from other organisms through molecular techniques.

It's because of this rat dilemma they have highlighted another study that used a different animal for 5 years.

and the sex of the mammal all three varieties of GMO corn caused damage to the animals major detoxifying organs namely the liver and the kidneys.

and female rats the death rates for the animals fed GMO corn was two to three times higher than the animals eating non-GMO corn.

There are some pretty significant species differences between animals like rats and humans says Organovo's Presnell.

People normally do a reaction purify the chemicals take the drug add it to cells look at the response formulate maybe do animals

The same would be found in cuticles of the fingernail âÂ#ÂTHE thing here is that to grow new STUPH cell division must take place.

or fingernail cuticle (instigating cell division) would help in cell division of cells in a packed state.

Can they use this technology to make burgers from less common animals? Penguins? I don't like the smell of penguins

You can do it with any sort of satellite cell from an animal. The leftovers were taken home for Dr. Post's children. well with any new product lets see what happens to the first few people who eat this

obviously there would be no purpose in keeping animals meant for food. will the vegetarians jump on board?

and would signify any real meat that has not been taken from animals but grown). Or Growth Meatwe can't just keep ading more and more cattle pigs chickens ect.

and mennonites and zoos and peta freaks cows will go extinct well we might keep a herd for genetic improvement

We can reduce the number of livestock and stop KILLING helpless animals!!!I'll take A g-burger please!!!

or those morally opposed to killing sentient animals for food. I see where this can have value

if a non-animal growth medium could be developed. As long as the growth medium production does not require even more productive land to produce the cultured meat than actually running animals on the land.

Even as a vegetarian I realize that animals as a food source leverage land that is not possible to efficiently cultivate.

Let's just get to the point where it is more efficient than ranching and not dependent on a slaughterhouse before we start jumping up and down with joy..

The beaver is a destructive animal that needs to be hunted or exterminated. A single beaver can

With the food chain's bottom tier knocked out most animals would die off quickly but scavengers picking over the dead remains could last until the cold killed them.

Humans could live in submarines in the deepest and warmest parts of the ocean but a more attractive option might be nuclear-or geothermal-powered habitats.

and corn (although keeping entire barns warm would be a problem) then butcher these animals for food

or other animals crazed by starvation.</</b>I would estimate that at least 99.99 percent of humans would be dead within a year with people who own livestock

and also involves some genetic manipulation and almost certainly some inhumane treatment of animals. How happy are those pancreas-less piglets really?

Higher animals such as primates and dolphins evolved in a greenhouse earth. Earth was damaged by an evasive plant species that kicked a series of global catastrophes called icebox earth

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