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Asia's odd-ball antelope gets collared

...lp protect one of Asia's most bizarre-looking ?and endangered ?large mammals. Standing just under two feet at the shoulder and weighing about 50 pounds, the most striking feature of the saiga is its large nose, or proboscis, similar to a tapir. The function of this unusual nose is not clear, but it may serve ...

Study suggests evolutionary link between diet, brain size in orangutans

...aik focused on several varieties of orangutans, an endangered primate closely related to humans. Members of th...easure brain size in wild, living members of these endangered animals, Taylor sought out skulls from museums and other sources. In all, they compared 226 adult sp...

Ocean temperature predicts spread of marine species

...s or never reach their destination and starve. For endangered species, survival of some animals may depend on whether offspring from parents in one protected area can get to another area where they are safe from harvest. "In warmer waters, marine protected areas may need to be closer together than in colder wat...

A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species

The shady pursuit of endangered bird eggs made international headlines in May 2006...serve biodiversity when simply declaring a species endangered catalyzes its exploitation? Since many collectors, pet owners, and ecotourists actually care about b...

Ground spider diversity studied in research project

...of the areas that has Navasota Ladies'-Tresses, an endangered orchid. More information on the park can be found at http://www.cstx.gov/docs/111946232004lick_creek_brochure-04.pdf . ...

Rhesus monkeys in Nepal may provide new alternative for HIV/AIDS research

...evalent in many countries and is not considered an endangered species. An agreement between the Nepal Biodiversity Research Society and the Washington National Primate Research Center was signed in September 2003 and a captive-breeding facility is now under construction. A breeding colony is expected to be est...

Fire ants: Their true story told by the scientist who loves them

...d the ecology of arboreal ants (a main food of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker) and the natural history of the Florida harvester ant ?or "any other species that strikes us as neat," he said. As for the much-maligned fire ant, he points to what he calls a 50-year-old misconception about shrinking native ...

Race to halt global amphibian crisis boosted by rediscovery of endangered Colombian frogs

...red what appear to be healthy populations of these endangered species," said Claude Gascon, CI's senior vice pre...ining the last significant habitat for one or more endangered species of mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian and plant. It listed the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta si...

All the eggs in one basket

Current conservation assessments of endangered Caribbean sea turtles are too optimistic, according to Loren McClenachan and colleagues from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. McClenachan, Jeremy Jackson and Marah Newman agree that conservation efforts since the 1970's have dramatically hel...

Major initiative proposed to address amphibian crisis

...Pacific Northwest are listed as candidates for the endangered species list. More than a dozen species have disappeared from Australia in recent years. And the problem appears to be getting worse. Traditional programs and current laws and policies alone are insufficient to address global threats that cross bo...

WWF captures first-ever photo of wild rhino on Borneo

...n rhinoceros is one of the world's most critically endangered species, with small numbers found only in Sumatra (Indonesia), Sabah (on the northern end of Borneo) and Peninsular Malaysia. On Borneo, there have been no confirmed reports of the species apart from those in Sabah for almost 20 years, leading expert...

Brighter future for giant panda?

...ought. The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered and elusive species. It is found only in a restricted mountainous region in China with an unusual dietary dependence on bamboos found only in these mountains. This elusive nature has shielded important knowledge needed to save it from extinction, unt...

Brazil creates buffer zone around coral reefs off Atlantic coast

...s of coastal and marine ecosystems with unique and endangered species, such as the humpback whales. Under Brazilian law, buffer zones around protected areas offer strong protection, with special permits from environmental authorities required for any economic use. "The buffer zone will guarantee the biodiver...

Use of stone hammers sheds light on geographic patterns of chimpanzee tool use

...al to animal. The findings, which involve the most endangered and least-understood subspecies of chimpanzee, are... tool use for Pan troglodytes vellerosus, the most endangered and understudied chimpanzee subspecies. It highlights the necessity to preserve the rich array of cu...

How satellite tracking revealed the migratory mysteries of endangered Atlantic loggerhead turtles

... of Exeter have uncovered the migratory secrets of endangered loggerhead turtles in West Africa and the results could have huge implications for strategies to protect them. In a paper in the journal Current Biology, Dr Brendan Godley and an international team describe how they used satellite tracking systems t...

It's all in the genes

...l degradation. "It's not enough to save rare and endangered species. We need to save genetic diversity in the foundation species," said Jennifer Schweitzer, a co-author of the Nature Reviews Genetics paper and postdoctoral researcher at NAU. "Having high genetic diversity in these foundation species is insura...

Creating a window on 'oceans in motion'

...hen fisheries should be open or closed to conserve endangered stocks. Other scientists from around the world attending the conference have placed related technology on a variety of other fish species, including sturgeon, halibut, sharks and tunas. Among other benefits, the array technology will provide insigh...

Even fish don't swim well when they're young!

...aring schemes in aquaculture and to lend a hand to endangered species", she says. ...

Underwater listening devices yield discoveries about endangered large whales

... provides a valuable way to track the movements of endangered large whales. Autonomous data-recording devices e... migrate to midlatitudes in winter. And critically endangered North Pacific right whales have been detected acoustically in locations where they were formerly ab...

Research tracks whales by listening to sounds

...chers have developed a new tool to help them study endangered whales ?autonomous hydrophones that can be deployed in the ocean to record the unique clicks, pulses and calls of different whale species. Those efforts are leading to some surprising findings, including the discovery by a team of researchers of rar...

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