News tagged with mountain lion
Mountain Lion! Stand or Run?
Apr 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new UC Davis study of 110 years of mountain-lion attacks on people suggests the conventional wisdom of standing your ground may not always be the right course.
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A mounain lion mystery -- what killed P8?
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Nov 27, 2006 |
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Biologists say the killer of a young male mountain lion in California's Santa Monica Mountains may be a previously unknown male cat.
Are tigers 'brainier' than lions?
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A wide-ranging study of big cat skulls, led by Oxford University scientists, has shown that tigers have bigger brains, relative to their body size, than lions, leopards or jaguars.
Mountain Gorillas Pose No AIDS Threat, Researchers Say
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mountain gorillas do not pose an AIDS threat to humans, according to researchers at the UC Davis Mountain Gorilla One Health Program.
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.
Are female mountain goats sexually conflicted over size of mate?
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Mountain goats are no exception to the general rule among mammals that larger males sire more and healthier offspring. But University of Alberta researcher David Coltman has found a genetic quirk that might make female mountain ...
New radar helps monitor site of century-old tragedy
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta researcher has turned the site of a southern Alberta rockslide tragedy into the proving ground for new equipment meant to avert such a disaster in the future.
Arctic exploration finds large underwater mountain
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Joint U.S.-Canada exploration of the Arctic sea floor discovered an unusual underwater mountain and evidence that could boost the two countries' claims that their boundaries extend farther north. For the past two ...
Lone llama rescued after month on Pikes Peak
Oct 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A lone llama wandering near the summit of Pikes Peak for a month has been captured and is heading to a new home.
Rare African Golden Cat Captured on Camera
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Yale anthropologist has captured photographic images of a rare, cougar-like cat ranging at night in an endangered Ugandan forest.
Transhumance helps vulture conservation
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Researchers from the University of Segovia and the University of León have shown for the first time the close space-time relationship between the presence of the griffon vulture and transhumant sheep ...
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