Endangered Animals News - Life Science News RSS FeedsLife Science :: Endangered AnimalsEndangered Animals News Stories, Current Endangered Animals News Events, Discoveries and Articleshttp://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Endangered_Animals Endangered Animals News Stories Current Endangered Animals News Events, Discoveries and Articles Black-footed ferrets sired by males that died 8 years ago Two black-footed ferrets at the Smithsonian's National Zoo have each given birth to a kit that was sired by males who died in 1999 and 2000 (2008-09-03) The exotic side of veterinary science The last 10 years has seen a huge increase in the popularity of exotic pets. Among the weird and wonderful animals being kept in our homes are monkeys, tarantulas, iguanas, salamanders, snakes, even hedgehogs. (2008-07-16) Passports for penguins Ground-breaking technology that will enable biologists to identify and monitor large numbers of endangered animals, from butterflies to whales, without being captured, will be shown to the public for the first time at this year's Royal Society Summer Science exhibition [30 June to 3 July]. (2008-06-30) Camera-shy deer caught for first time A little-known species of deer called a large-antlered muntjac has been photographed for the first time in the wild, according to a survey team from the Nam Theun 2 Watershed Management and Protection Authority (WMPA) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (2007-07-25) Study suggests evolutionary link between diet, brain size in orangutans In a study of orangutans living on the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra, scientists from Duke University and the University of Zurich have found what they say is the first demonstration in primates of an evolutionary connection between available food supplies and brain size. (2006-10-24) Three new species of lemurs identified Researchers have identified three new species of lemurs, the small, big-eyed primates native to the island of Madagascar. (2006-02-23) Saving the peatlands of Borneo Recent EU funding for University of Leicester research into Borneo peatlands will help to save the natural habitat of species such as the orang-utan, already under threat. The island of Borneo includes 11 million hectares of peatland, an area almost half the size of the land area of the UK, important reservoirs of biodiversity, which include rare and endangered animals. Tropical peatlands also perform valuable natural functions such as carbon sequestration and flood control, yet they are currently under considerable threat from land degradation, clearance and fire. In many cases, large-scale forest clearance is being carried out by companies to provide land for plantation crops (e.g. oil pal (2002-07-26) |
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