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Elephants imitate truck noises, other animals

...er with two Asian elephants in a zoo. One imitated truck noises heard from a nearby highway, the other the ...mitations of the trucks sounded much like recorded truck sounds and nothing like normal calls of African elephants. Mlaika did not appear to imitate particul...

Elephants imitate sounds as a form of social communication

...er with two Asian elephants in a zoo. One imitated truck noises heard from a nearby highway, the other the ...mitations of the trucks sounded much like recorded truck sounds and nothing like normal calls of African elephants. Mlaika did not appear to imitate particul...

Rabies spread speeds up

...ant translocations, such as the occasional garbage truck ride. They estimated that rabies would take just 33 months to spread across central Ohio - compared to 48 months to cross the much smaller state of Connecticut - and cover the state within 41 months. This transmission rate - 100 kilometers/year - sig...

New understanding of jet lag

...orkers - health care providers, factory employees, truck drivers, etc. - who encounter alertness problems, and those with sleep disorders. A team of researchers at the University of Virginia and at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands published their findings in the May 24 - June 6, 2005 is...

Plant gene related to cancer treatment may foster new oncology drugs

...tion primarily as an aide rather than the delivery truck for auxin transport, Murphy said. This finding revealed that PINs and PGPs may function together in long-distance auxin transport, according to the Plant Journal article. Named for the pin-shaped appearance of the mutant originally used to identify t...

Morning grogginess more debilitating than sleep deprivation, according to CU-Boulder study

...t. The study also has implications for commercial truck drivers, who frequently pause for quick naps in their vehicles' sleeping berths during cross-country excursions, he said. Wright and his colleagues said further studies are needed to measure the effects of nap interruption and "recovery sleep" in on...

UF scientists test improved gene therapy method for hereditary heart conditions

...Chapel Hill, said each viral type is "like a FedEx truck that carries a ZIP code that determines where the truck is going to take its payload to." "Laboratories are engineering new ZIP codes onto these vectors s...

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