News tagged with prairie dogs
Prairie dogs: influencing the accumulation of metals in plants?
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Prairie dogs may seem like harmless little creatures, but they can inflict serious injury on plants simply by snacking on them. Plants cannot flee from their furry predators, so how do they avoid becoming ...
Prairie dog research promotes caring, conservation
Mar 10, 2009 |
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The Northern Arizona University biology professor states the case for protecting the species in Prairie Dogs: Communication and Community in an Animal Society, recently published by Harvard University Press.
Ouch! Taking a shot at plague
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Jul 16, 2008 |
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Endangered black-footed ferrets, like children, aren't exactly lining up to be stuck with a vaccine, but in an effort to help control an extensive outbreak of plague in South Dakota, some of the ferrets are getting dosed ...
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Prairie dogs denied endangered protection
Feb 09, 2006 |
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Federal officials have announced they will not consider providing Gunnison prairie dogs with protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Black-footed ferrets released in Kansas
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Dec 25, 2007 |
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Twenty-four rare black-footed ferrets freed on private land in Kansas are believed to be the first of their kind in the area in more than 50 years.
Feds to reconsider protecting mountain plovers
Aug 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal officials will reconsider whether a bird that breeds in Colorado and neighboring states and summers in California should be protected.
Bubonic plague found in Colo. prairie dogs
Oct 17, 2005 |
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Colorado health officials have reportedly confirmed an outbreak of bubonic plague among prairie dog colonies near Green Mountain.
3-year-olds get the point
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Dogs and small children who share similar social environments appear to understand human gestures in comparable ways, according to Gabriella Lakatos from Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary, and her team. Looking at how ...
Human-dog communication -- breed as important as species
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Dog breeds selected to work in visual contact with humans, such as sheep dogs and gun dogs, are better able to comprehend a pointing gesture than those breeds that usually work without direct supervision. A series of tests, ...
Competition may have led to new dinosaur species in Grande Prairie area
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a gruesome feeding frenzy that played out 73 million years ago in northwestern Alberta may also lead to the discovery of new dinosaur species in northwestern Alberta.
In combat zone, gastroenterologists put skills to test
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Most of today's gastroenterologists practice in relatively calm environments with patients of the same species. But for Dr. Leon Kundrotas and his colleagues working in Joint Base Balad, Iraq, the need to diagnose and treat ...
FDA approves cancer treatment for dogs
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug made specifically to treat cancer in dogs.
What really prompts the dog's "guilty look"
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2009 |
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What dog owner has not come home to a broken vase or other valuable items and a guilty-looking dog slouching around the house? By ingeniously setting up conditions where the owner was misinformed as to whether ...
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