News tagged with mule deer
Researchers embark on work to control the prion epidemic affecting deer in the USA
Spanish researchers at the Centre for Cooperative Research in Bioscience, CIC bioGUNE, in collaboration with the University of Kentucky (USA), have discovered a new way to control the stability of certain types of prions ...
May 19, 2010 |
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Once nearly extinct, wild foxes on Catalina Island making a comeback
The population of endangered wild foxes on Santa Catalina Island soon could recover to levels not seen in a decade since canine distemper decimated them, biologists said this week.
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Study shows how glaciers affected deer evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- A 10-year study of mule and black-tailed deer has found unique subspecies created by the animals' responses to climate change thousands of years ago.
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Lichens may aid in combating deadly chronic wasting disease in wildlife
Certain lichens can break down the infectious proteins responsible for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a troubling neurological disease fatal to wild deer and elk and spreading throughout the United States and Canada, according ...
May 18, 2011 |
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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.
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Scientists examine effect of wolves' absence and see an ecosystem 'unraveling'
No trace remains of the wolves whose howls ricocheted for millennia down the lush valleys of the Olympic Peninsula. Settlers and trappers killed them all in little more than three decades.
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Jan 29, 2009 |
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Grazing animals help spread plant disease
Researchers have discovered that grazing animals such as deer and rabbits are actually helping to spread plant disease - quadrupling its prevalence in some cases - and encouraging an invasion of annual grasses that threaten ...
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Dec 29, 2008 |
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Study Finds Beaked Whales' Tusks Evolved Through Sexual Selection Process
(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, scientists have wondered why only males of the rarely seen family of beaked whales have “tusks,” since they are squid-eaters and in many of the species, these elaborately modified ...
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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Polar dinosaurs may have taken shorter treks
(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to popular belief, polar dinosaurs may not have traveled nearly as far as originally thought when making their bi-annual migration.
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Oct 22, 2008 |
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Study of polar dinosaur migration questions whether dinosaurs were truly the first great migrators
Contrary to popular belief, polar dinosaurs may not have traveled nearly as far as originally thought when making their bi-annual migration.
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Oct 21, 2008 |
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There's no such thing as a picky grizzly bear
A new University of Alberta study, which tracked eating habits of grizzly bears living in the Alberta foothills, sheds some light on the animal's varied diet and their activity pattern.
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Feb 22, 2007 |
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Grizzly bears feast on diverse diet
There’s no such thing as picky grizzly bears—they’ll eat almost anything they can find. A new University of Alberta study that tracked food habits of the Alberta grizzly bear living in the foothills sheds some ...
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Feb 15, 2007 |
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