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Tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor (AP)

Tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- The tribes of the lower Klamath River have since ancient times decorated themselves with condor feathers when they performed the dances designed to heal a world gone wrong.


Male seahorses like big mates

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Male seahorses have a clear agenda when it comes to selecting a mating partner: to increase their reproductive success. By being choosy and preferring large females, they are likely to have more and bigger eggs, as well as ...


Doctor Astrid Vargas feeding a lynx cub at the captive breeding center

Most endangered feline brought back from the brink

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Road signs throughout the vast Donana National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southwestern Spain, warn drivers to watch out for lynxes.


Conserving biodiversity or plundering genetic diversity? What is captive breeding doing to fish populations?

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created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Human impacts on the environment have reduced populations of wild species to dangerously low levels. Nowhere is this more apparent than in worldwide fisheries, where thanks to overfishing and habitat destruction, countless ...


Captive breeding introduced infectious disease to Mallorcan amphibians

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created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A potentially deadly fungus that can kill frogs and toads was inadvertently introduced into Mallorca by a captive breeding program that was reintroducing a rare species of toad into the wild, according to a new study published ...