News tagged with feline species
Most endangered feline brought back from the brink
Jun 21, 2009 |
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Road signs throughout the vast Donana National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southwestern Spain, warn drivers to watch out for lynxes.
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Mane event: Recombination in lion feline immunodeficiency virus
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 05, 2008 |
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Parts of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) isolated from wild lions have undergone substantial genetic recombination, says research published in the online open access journal BMC Genomics. The sequencing of the two fu ...
New insights into how SARS pathogen infects host
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) first appeared in 2003, international cooperation helped contain the virulent coronavirus, which caused respiratory illness in more than 8,000 ...
Litter of lynx kittens heartens Colo. biologists
Jun 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The discovery of 10 lynx kittens this spring marks the first newborns documented in Colorado since 2006, heartening biologists overseeing restoration of the mountain feline.
Study finds that hunters are depleting lion and cougar populations
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Sport hunters are depleting lion and cougar populations as managers respond to demands to control predators that threaten livestock and humans, according to a study published in the June 17 issue of PLoS ONE. The study was le ...
Common cat parasite affects human brains
Aug 02, 2006 |
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U.S. researchers say more than a quarter of the world's population is infected with a feline parasite related to malaria and which causes personality changes.
Evolution of skull and mandible shape in cats
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Jul 30, 2008 |
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In a new study published in the online-open access journal PLoS ONE, Per Christiansen at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, reports the finding that the evolution of skull and mandible shape in sabercats and mo ...
Chemical In Blood May Explain Susceptibility To Bladder Pain
Jun 15, 2009 |
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A marker in the blood of both cats and humans that was identified in a recent study might signal both species’ susceptibility for a painful bladder disorder called interstitial cystitis, a condition that is often difficult ...
Male sabertoothed cats were pussycats compared to macho lions
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Despite their fearsome fangs, male sabertoothed cats may have been less aggressive than many of their feline cousins, says a new study of male-female size differences in extinct big cats.
Species distribution models are of only limited value for predicting future mammal distributions
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Species distribution models are of only limited use in predicting the future distribution of mammals. This is the finding of a study of the climate niches of 140 indigenous European mammals.
Evolution may take giant leaps
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of thousands of species of plants and animals suggests new species may arise from rare events instead of through an accumulation of small changes made in response to changes in ...
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