News tagged with predator control
Helicopter wolf kill in Alaska worries U.S. park service
Mar 17, 2009 |
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A new predator control effort that has the state of Alaska shooting wolves from helicopters is raising alarms with the National Park Service.
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To trust or not to trust your friends
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Jan 30, 2007 |
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Sometimes it is better to follow the advice of others rather than your own mind even though you seem to have things under control. Not only humans but also fish follow this doctrine as shown by ecologists Jörgen Johnsson ...
Novel living system recreates predator-prey interaction
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Apr 14, 2008 |
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The hunter-versus-hunted phenomenon exemplified by a pack of lionesses chasing down a lonely gazelle has been recreated in a Petri dish with lowly bacteria.
Aussie meat ants may be invasive cane toad's Achilles' heel
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Ecologists in Australia have discovered that cane toads are far more susceptible to being killed and eaten by meat ants than native frogs. Their research - published in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ec ...
Feds fail to protect U.S. sheep industry
Mar 16, 2006 |
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Decades of federally subsidized predator control has failed to prevent a sheep industry decline, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society says.
Master gene Math1 controls framework for perceiving external and internal body parts
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Waking and walking to the bathroom in the pitch black of night requires brain activity that is both conscious and unconscious and requires a single master gene known as Math1 or Atoh1, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers ...
Alaska OKs sale of bear hides
Jan 31, 2006 |
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For the first time in Alaska's history brown bear hides may be legally sold if taken from a 2,700-square-mile northeastern section of the state.
'Plant-eating predator to fight superweed is not magic bullet'
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Oct 14, 2008 |
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Plans to introduce plant-eating predators to fight a superweed spreading throughout Britain should not be seen as a 'magic bullet', says a world expert on Japanese knotweed at the University of Leicester.
Free will takes flight: how our brains respond to an approaching menace
Aug 23, 2007 |
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Wellcome Trust scientists have identified for the first time how our brain's response changes the closer a threat gets. Using a "Pac Man"-like computer game where a volunteer is pursued by an artificial predator, the researchers ...
California lawmakers take aim at Alaska's aerial wolf hunts
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Alaska's predator-control program to kill wolves, which drew renewed national scrutiny last year during former Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for vice president, is under attack again in Congress.
Predicting the perfect predator
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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Garlic mustard has become an invasive species in temperate forests across the United States, choking out native plants on forest floors and threatening ecosystem diversity. University of Illinois ecologist Adam Davis has ...
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