News tagged with black wolves

Wildlife surviving conflict in Afghanistan

A new survey conducted by WCS scientists, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), reveals that large mammals, including Asiatic black bears, gray wolves, markhor goats, and leopard ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Black wolves: The first genetically modified predators?

Emergence of black-colored wolves is the direct result of humans raising dogs as pets and beasts of burden, according to new research by a University of Calgary biologist published today by the prestigious ...

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created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 2




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Discovering Autism: Services go to those who fight hardest

From the day her son was diagnosed with autism nine years ago, Stacie Funk has made it her full-time job to find him the best possible help. Hiring lawyers and experts to press her case, she established herself as a mother ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Powerful mathematical model greatly improves predictions for species facing climate change

UCLA life scientists and colleagues have produced the most comprehensive mathematical model ever devised to track the health of populations exposed to environmental change.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 03, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

New home movies resurrect endangered American Indian language

University of Minnesota Duluth education professor Mary Hermes says saving an endangered language goes beyond just enriching the people who speak it.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

US police kill escaped lions, tigers and bears

Police in the US state of Ohio shot dead dozens of lions, tigers, bears and wolves in a frantic hunt after the owner of an exotic farm freed the dangerous animals and then killed himself.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 17

Lions, tigers, bears on the loose in rural Ohio

Dozens of animals, including lions, tigers, bears and wolves, were on the loose in the US state of Ohio Wednesday after apparently being released from an exotic farm, local media reported.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Hoping for mining boom, Canada opens last frontier

Dropping beneath low-lying clouds, a float plane circles a rocky landscape on the edge of the Arctic Circle grooved by the last ice age eight millennia ago and since then bathed by hundreds of rivers and lakes.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 12

Experts urge protected areas to save Canada caribou

Canada needs to create large protected areas of woodlands to help save caribou from the threat of extinction, scientists and environmentalists said Wednesday.

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Endangered species hit hard by historic Ariz. fire

(AP) -- The largest wildfire in Arizona history left a charred landscape of blackened forest, burned-out vehicle hulks and charred fireplaces as it destroyed more than 30 homes. It also inflicted a serious ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Reindeer see a weird and wonderful world of ultraviolet light

Researchers have discovered that the ultraviolet (UV) light that causes the temporary but painful condition of snow blindness in humans is life-saving for reindeer in the arctic.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Human activity displaces predators more than prey

A new paper by University of Calgary researchers, published today in PLoS ONE, demonstrates the edge given to prey in the “space race” by human activity.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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