Emmy Winner Jonathan Jackson With Rock Band Enation Take On Predators & Rapists
Star Studded Band Donates Single from New Album Permission to Dream as Just Yell Fire Fundraiser VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Emmy winning actor Jonathan Jackson and his band Enation have joined the celebrity roster supporting Just Yell Fire, a non-profit th...MU researchers reveal communication tactics used by sexual predators to entrap children
COLUMBIA, Mo. A childs innocence and vulnerability presents a target for a sexual predators abusive behavior. University of Missouri researchers are beginning to understand the communication process by which predators lure victims into a web of entrapment. This information could better equip pare...Leading Child Abuse Center Releases Back to School Tips to Protect Children From Internet Predators
DENVER, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Now that school is back in session, on-line use will likely increase by children to research reports, communicate with teachers and friends or just play interactive games. "While the Internet is a wonderful resource, an on-line predator will use its anonymity ...Pence Amendment Passes Rules Committee; Set for Friday Vote
...nthood in the United States. "Millions of tax dollars are wasted each year fueling an organization that promotes eugenics and protects sexual predators under the guise of 'family planning'," said Rita Diller, national director of American Life League's STOP Planned Parenthood project. Kenney ...Provocative Online Portrayals Can Get Teen Girls in Trouble
...other sites, and that's gotten some into trouble," said Alan Hilfer, director of psychology at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City. Not only predators can see a provocative photo. So can parents. Hilfer recounted the story of a 16-year-old boy who posted a picture of himself with a bottle of beer, wh...Americans United for Life Condemns FDA Decision that Will Increase Minors' Access to Plan B
...cations or even sexual abuse. Denise Burke, AUL Vice President of Legal Affairs said, "With this decision, an unsafe drug could be used by sexual predators and even the victims themselves to hide the abuse from parents and the authorities." For more on the safety concerns surrounding Plan B, see " T...Fish researcher demonstrates first 'non-visual feeding' by African cichlids
...hair cells that respond to water flow. The lateral line system aids some fish in swimming upstream, navigation around obstacles, and the detection of predators and prey. According to Jacqueline Webb, a URI professor of biology, cichlids in the genus Aulonocara, which only live in Lake Malawi, have widened...Americans United for Life Condemns Ruling Increasing Minors' Access to Dangerous Plan B
...s such as the continued exploitation and sexual abuse of young girls." Continued Burke, "It is all too easy for this unsafe drug to be used by sexual predators and even the victims themselves to hide the abuse from parents and the authorities." For more on the safety concerns surrounding Plan B, see " Th...Research Finds Popular Household Pets Transmit Dangerous Parasites to Humans
...es Outweigh Predators", Santa Barbara Independent, 7/29/08, http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1814 UCSB Study: Parasites Outweigh predators http://www.independent.com/news/2008/jul/29/ucsb-study-parasites-outweigh-predators/ ...Parasites outweigh predators in Pacific Coast estuaries
In a study of parasites living in three estuaries on the Pacific coast of California and Baja California, researchers have determined that biomass of these parasites exceeds that of top predators, in some cases by more than 20 times. Their findings, which could have significant ecological and b...Ocean's fiercest predators now vulnerable to extinction
This release is available in French . Sharks are disappearing from the worlds oceans. The numbers of many large shark species have declined by more than half due to increased demand for shark fins and meat, recreational shark fisheries, as well as tuna and swordfish fisheries, where millio...Hidden interactions between predators and prey: evolution causes cryptic dynamics in ecology
When the populations of two species oscillate together (for example, predators and prey), its a good bet that they are tightly coupled ecologically. A famous example is the Canadian lynx and snowshoe hare, documented in the trapping records of the Hudsons Bay Company. But is the opposite also true...Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators
In a deadly game of heads or tails venomous sea snakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans deceive their predators into believing they have two heads, claims research published today in Marine Ecology . The discovery, made by Dr Arne Redsted Rasmussen and Dr Johan Elmberg, showed that Yellow-lip...Siberian jays use complex communication to mob predators
When mobbing predators, Siberian jays use over a dozen different calls to communicate the level of danger and predator category to other members of their own group. A Swedish study from Uppsala University, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences , shows birds have ev...Sexy or repulsive? Butterfly wings can be both to mates and predators
New Haven, Conn. Butterflies seem able to both attract mates and ward off predators using different sides of their wings, according to new research by Yale University biologists. Trying to find the balance between these two crucial behaviors is one of nature's oldest dilemmas, according to Je...Photos reveal Myanmar's large and small predators
NEW YORK (September 4, 2008)Using remote camera traps to lift the veil on Myanmar's dense northern wild lands, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society have painstakingly gathered a bank of valuable data on the country's populations of tigers and other smaller, lesser known carnivores (s...Study shows parasites outweigh predators
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) - In a study of free-living and parasitic species in three estuaries on the Pacific coast of California and Baja California, a team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, the United States Geological Survey, and Princeton University has determined ...Sand dollar larvae use cloning to 'make change,' confound predators
Nature is full of examples of creatures that try to look as big as possible in an effort to scare away potential predators. But to avoid being eaten alive the larvae of sand dollars appear to have a different strategy, in a way exchanging a dollar for a couple of dimes. University of Washingt...Slow-motion video study shows shrews are highly sophisticated predators
Strange as it seems, the smallest mammal Is the shrew, and not the camel. And that is all I ever knew, Or wish to know, about the shrew. --Ogden Nash Shrews are tiny mammals that have been widely characterized as simple and primitive. This traditiona...Florida schools employ Johnson Controls technology to stop sex predators
Milwaukee, Wis. - The nation's fifth largest school district is being outfitted with a new security system designed by Johnson Controls, Inc. , to deter sexual predators from entering school grounds. Johnson Controls, known more for its attempts to develop hybrid car batteries and energy-effi...Biologist discovers pink-winged moth in Chiricahua Mountains
...winter at higher elevations, hibernating when there is snow on the ground and flying off at the first signs of spring. Walsh said bats are the primary predators of moths, and so if the insects can make it through the winter, when bats hibernate, they will likely do well as the weather gets warmer. As to why...Researchers Document Rapid, Dramatic 'Reverse Evolution' in the Threespine Stickleback Fish
..., affording a range of vision only about 30 inches deep. The tainted, mucky water provided the sticklebacks with an opaque blanket of security against predators such as cutthroat trout, and so the fish needed little bony armor to keep them from being eaten by the trout. In 1968, after the cleanup was complet...