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  • The Song of the Ape

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    13 May 2012 | 1:59 pm
    The Song of the Ape: Understanding the Languages of Chimpanzees by Andrew R. HalloranQL 737 .P96 H358 2012“While working as a zookeeper with a group of semi-wild chimpanzees living on an island, primatologist Andrew Halloran witnessed an event that led to his fascination about how chimpanzees communicate complex information and ideas to one another. The group he was working with was in the middle of a yearlong power battle in which the older chimpanzees were being ousted in favor of a younger group. One day Andrew carelessly forgot to secure his rowboat at the mainland and looked up…

  • Microscope looks into cells of living fish

    ScienceDaily: Zoology News
    16 May 2012 | 10:59 am
    Microscopes provide valuable insights in the structure and dynamics of cells, in particular when the latter remain in their natural environment. However, this is very difficult especially for higher organisms. Researchers have now developed a new method to visualize cell structures of an eighth of a micrometer in size in living fish larvae.

  • Welsh academic guilty of scientific fraud

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    12 May 2012 | 1:37 am
    Welsh Academic guilty of scientific fraud - a snake in the grass! Media release dated May 2012 An academic at the University at Bangor, Mr.

  • Human Cryptozoology Perhaps.

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    13 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    If you haven’t heard about the aptly nicknamed Hobbit, you should know about it. In 2003 a new species of human was excavated from a cave in Indonesia. Homo floresiensis was about 3 feet tall and had an incredibly small brain. This has been a point of some contention, and multiple genetic conditions have been proposed to be responsible for the specimen. A torrent of studies have fought over the details and interpretation of various proportions of the bones.Despite the tiny brain, it was found with quite sophisticated stone technology. This could have been necessary to hunt the big…

  • Tyrannosaurus skeleton to be auctioned in New York

    MedWorm: Zoology
    16 May 2012 | 8:20 am
    Nearly complete skeleton of 2.5-metre tall and 7-metre long Tyrannosaurus bataar expected to fetch up to £1mA magnificent dinosaur skeleton that was stored – in its constituent bits – in a warehouse in Dorset is expected to fetch up to £1m at auction.The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a cousin of T rex, was acquired by an unnamed British collector seven years ago after being discovered in the Gobi desert in Mongolia.He stored the bones in a warehouse near his home until beginning the tricky task of piecing the skeleton together. He half-completed the project before shipping the…
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  • Microscope looks into cells of living fish

    16 May 2012 | 10:59 am
    Microscopes provide valuable insights in the structure and dynamics of cells, in particular when the latter remain in their natural environment. However, this is very difficult especially for higher organisms. Researchers have now developed a new method to visualize cell structures of an eighth of a micrometer in size in living fish larvae.

  • Hidden lives of elephant seals: Record-setting dive more than a mile deep

    15 May 2012 | 7:30 pm
    The same researchers who pioneered the use of satellite tags to monitor the migrations of elephant seals have compiled one of the largest datasets available for any marine mammal species, revealing their movements and diving behavior at sea in unprecedented detail.

  • Ancient sea reptile with gammy jaw suggests dinosaurs got arthritis too

    15 May 2012 | 7:30 pm
    Imagine having arthritis in your jaw bones ... if they're over 2 meters long! A new study has found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur, an ancient sea reptile that lived 150 million years ago. Such a disease has never been described before in fossilized Jurassic reptiles.

  • Animal disease research misses the human perspective, say researchers

    15 May 2012 | 6:03 am
    Animal disease research concentrates too much on the behavior of micro organisms while ignoring the role played by human beings; we need to take more account of the human dimension if the work of scientists is to be translated effectively into policy, according to experts.

  • Cross-reactivity between peanuts and other legumes can lead to serious allergic reactions

    15 May 2012 | 4:25 am
    Food allergies pose a serious and growing problem in the West. Many foods can lead to allergic reactions and this situation is further complicated by so-called cross-reactions, whereby an allergy to one particular food can trigger allergic reactions to another food. There are no treatments available for food allergies, but the establishment of two mouse models can be used to develop and test new forms of treatment, for example vaccines.
 
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  • Welsh academic guilty of scientific fraud

    12 May 2012 | 1:37 am
    Welsh Academic guilty of scientific fraud - a snake in the grass! Media release dated May 2012 An academic at the University at Bangor, Mr.

  • University hosting zoology conference

    7 May 2012 | 3:17 pm
    Approximately 300 zoologists from across the country and around the world are attending the weeklong conference.

  • Prehistoric Flea-Like Insects Were A Mean Bunch

    2 May 2012 | 12:15 pm
    Massive flea-like insect fossils discovered by Chinese scientists are believed to be the oldest of their kind, and may have feasted on dinosaurs some 165 million years ago, according to zoologists who analyzed the creatures.

  • Endangered Philippine Cloud Rat Discovered

    26 Apr 2012 | 5:56 am
    MANILA, Philippines - A Czech zoologist reportedly found an extinct mammal species called "Dinagat" , a bushy-tailed cloud rat which can only be found in Dinagat Island, Southern Leyte.

  • Genetic markers for tracking species: Barcodes

    25 Apr 2012 | 11:58 am
    At the supermarket checkout, hardly anybody enters prices manually anymore. Using scanners that can read the barcodes is much faster.
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  • Human Cryptozoology Perhaps.

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    13 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    If you haven’t heard about the aptly nicknamed Hobbit, you should know about it. In 2003 a new species of human was excavated from a cave in Indonesia. Homo floresiensis was about 3 feet tall and had an incredibly small brain. This has been a point of some contention, and multiple genetic conditions have been proposed to be responsible for the specimen. A torrent of studies have fought over the details and interpretation of various proportions of the bones.Despite the tiny brain, it was found with quite sophisticated stone technology. This could have been necessary to hunt the big…

  • The Song of the Ape

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    13 May 2012 | 1:59 pm
    The Song of the Ape: Understanding the Languages of Chimpanzees by Andrew R. HalloranQL 737 .P96 H358 2012“While working as a zookeeper with a group of semi-wild chimpanzees living on an island, primatologist Andrew Halloran witnessed an event that led to his fascination about how chimpanzees communicate complex information and ideas to one another. The group he was working with was in the middle of a yearlong power battle in which the older chimpanzees were being ousted in favor of a younger group. One day Andrew carelessly forgot to secure his rowboat at the mainland and looked up…

  • Schedule Complications: ERADICATED

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    13 May 2012 | 1:59 pm
    GREAT NEWS!!! I discovered that I can graduate a full year early. I came in with a half a years credit from high school thanks to the International Baccalaureate program. I’ve been taken full loads expecting that I could take lighter ones during my last two years. But this has had the unexpected benefit of meeting all my grad requirements another full semester early. After a long, arduous tug-of-war between several advisors and officials, my girlfriend figured out a way for my schedule to work. Below are the classes I’ll be taking, and you can probably expect to see posts…

  • The week in wildlife a" in pictures

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    13 May 2012 | 1:58 pm
    Ringed ruffs, returning whale sharks and wildlife crime - the pick of this week's images from the natural world (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)MedWorm Sponsor Message: Please support the Doctors In Chains campaign for the medics tortured and sentenced for up to 15 years in Bahrain. #FreeDoctors  » original news

  • When Blood-Sucking Mega-Fleas Stalked the Earth!

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    13 May 2012 | 1:58 pm
    The giant dinosaurs that roamed the world some 150 million years ago shared the planet with equally daunting parasites: blood-gobbling fleas that were up two centimetres long.This according to a recent article in Nature, the international weekly journal of science.(Long, serrated piercing tubes and grasping claws suggest adaptation to feed on hairy animals or feathered dinosaurs)The article reports on the work of Chinese and French palaeontologists, who have pored over nine extraordinary fossils unearthed from Inner Mongolia and Liaoning province.The ancient fleas measured just over 20…
 
 
 
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    Reptile Apartment

  • And the Cascabel will Fall Quiet…

    John F Taylor
    11 May 2012 | 10:10 pm
    Reptile Apartment - "It's not a desire; it's an obsession to share our knowledge with those interested in herpetoculture." GRAND FlAGallery WordPress plugin Rattlesnakes were described by many cultures prior to the English invasion of the New World and were known by some Spanish and Portuguese explorers who likened the sound of the snakes tail when vibrated to that of a bell. According to Klauber this erroneous notion came from the English translation of cascabel which is the word in Spanish meaning small bell. This was somewhere during the 1600’s that these descriptions…

  • Natural Habitat and Range of Eumeces schneideri

    Tommy Williams
    25 Apr 2012 | 3:18 pm
    Reptile Apartment - "It's not a desire; it's an obsession to share our knowledge with those interested in herpetoculture." GRAND FlAGallery WordPress plugin So I wanted to start a small series of posts that focus on the natural habitat of many of the species that we keep in captivity. Knowing how our pets live in the wild can be important to their health and well being and mimicking their natural habitats as closely as possible is not only rewarding but also a great way of learning more about the world. Obviously not everyone wants to keep their animals in naturalistic…

  • Reptile Foraging

    John F Taylor
    7 Apr 2012 | 4:04 pm
    Reptile Apartment - "It's not a desire; it's an obsession to share our knowledge with those interested in herpetoculture." GRAND FlAGallery WordPress plugin In the past few months I have been doing some writing on behavior, cognition, and some other in depth works in an attempt to understand more than the captive environment of the latest pet reptile. It’s accurate to say, if you can recreate the natural living conditions for most reptiles then they can thrive in a captive environment. I have continually come across a statement which to be honest makes me want to contact…
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