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Dogs keep dying: Many owners unaware of toxic dog food

...lth of dogs that survive as well as dogs that have eaten the tainted food but show no clinical signs." She ...ven if dogs show no signs of illness, if they have eaten the affected food, they should have blood tests submitted to detect liver injury," Center stressed. ...

Exotic crab poised for widespread UK invasion

...elicacy in Chinese and Japanese restaurants and is eaten raw, preferably with its reproductive organs swollen! If you see a crab in freshwater it is almost certain to be a mitten crab (only one other small non-native crab has been reported from Cardiff Docks) Politician Peter Mandelson was once joki...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

... true of children who drank milk from cows who had eaten contaminated grass. Since iodine concentrates in the thyroid gland, this was a major cause of the high incidence of thyroid cancer in children. Several recent studies suggest a slight increase in the incidence of leukemia among emergency workers, bu...

Ebola virus: from wildlife to dogs

...lic of Congo, there were many cases where dogs had eaten remains of dead animals infected with the virus, nonetheless without showing visible clinical signs. In order to confirm that these dogs had indeed come into contact with the virus, the scientists looked for the presence of specific Ebola virus antib...

Internet viruses help ecologists control invasive species

...ironmental conditions (such as drying out or being eaten by fish), and because humans transport the eggs on their fishing gear and pleasure boats. Professor Norman Yan of Ontario's York University has demonstrated that predation by the spiny water flea causes an average loss of three zooplankton species. ...

What the eye doesn't see

...es Cuthill said: "The rate at which mealworms were eaten by birds gives a measure of how effective each combination was at preventing detection by a predator. Combinations that gave a better disguise took longer to be seen, and it therefore took longer for the mealworms to be eaten." This research provide...

Flocking together: Study shows how animal groups find their way

...l animals, which pay a high price -- such as being eaten -- if they stray from their group. Second, a few animals were programmed to have a preferred direction, as if aware of a food source or other valued destination. These animals were instructed to balance their desire to move toward their goal with th...

A frog's life is food for thought

...y after 3 months without food, than frogs that had eaten regularly. "They can take massive meals equivalent to 50 percent of their body mass and maximise their digestive capability from the outset," Ms Cramp said. Little is known about the effects of prolonged food deprivation on the gut of animals that ...

Falling ants glide back to trunk to avoid dangers of forest floor

...al trail back to the nest, and most likely will be eaten by predators. Yanoviak said that perhaps more important from the perspective of survival, the forests are flooded as much as half the year, so an ant falling into the water will most likely end up as fish food. "That's what I think is the major evo...

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