4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 25, 2010
Long before CAT scans, X-rays, blood samples and colonoscopies, physicians used the good sense they were born with: their sense of smell. Recently, another powerful little nose has joined the diagnostic force: that of the African giant pouched rat. Rats help save humans. Sweet, fruity breath could mean diabetes. Liver disease?
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2011
He had the habit of asking very similar question about the animals featured in his zoology lectures, including basic questions like how big they are, what limits physiology puts on their geographic range, etc. For instance, among animals, booby and noddy combined probably represents the majority of the biomass of the somewhat unusual St.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. In many ways, that is exactly what happened. Nonetheless, this week will be chock full of invasive species.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. Genetic studies have suggested that some birds are hard to place as having hybrid ancestors.
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