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Potent possibilities for parasite attack

...smitted by the bite of various species of sandfly: wild and domesticated animals - as well as humans - act as a reservoir for the disease....

Study shows lizard moms dress their children for success

... She also tested eggs from lizards captured in the wild and found a wide range of naturally occurring estr...erns of the progeny before releasing them into the wild to see how well they survived. To avoid predators, the lizards need a back pattern that matches t...

Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan

...tegy that will safeguard the region’s wildlife and wild lands, which may now rank among the richest in Africa. The plan would include the integration of several thousand ex-combatants from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army into wildlife services, help establish and manage official networks of national pa...

New collaborative research reveals chimpanzees can sustain multiple-tradition cultures

...pports the idea cultural variation observed in the wild is learned,” says Dr. de Waal. “We are the first to show cultures potentially can jump from group to group if you offer chimpanzees the opportunity to watch other groups. It’s a bit like Westerners learning to eat with chopsticks."...

CSIRO scientists join fight to save 'Tassie devil'

...f captured animals prior to their release into the wild or placement into isolated breeding populations.” Dr Church and his team will look to extend their work using the Australian synchrotron infrared beam line when it comes on-line later this year. Steve Marvanek, Spatial Data Analyst at CSIRO Land a...

Threats to wild tigers growing

The wild tiger now occupies a mere 7 percent of its histori...orld Wildlife Fund and 15 coauthors, describes the wild tiger's population trajectory as "catastrophic" and urges international cooperation to ensure the an...

Research identifies protein that signals flowering in squash plants

...ucurbita moschata, an obligate short-day flowering wild squash. The length of the day relative to night, or photoperiod, is a strong determining factor for the induction of flowering in many plant species. Short day (SD) plants require a short day length (or more precisely, a long night) in order to flow...

One species, many genomes

...wth, darker leaves, a different way of branching - wild varieties of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana are of...he researchers compared the genetic material of 19 wild strains with that of the genome of the lab strain, which was sequenced in the year 2000. Using a ver...

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