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S.Africa rhino toll jumps as poachers kill 7 in attack
Nov 20, 2012 (AFP)
Seven rhinos have been killed in an attack on a South African farm, bringing the total number killed this year to 570 as black-market demand for their horns con...
Climate change threatens giant pandas' bamboo buffet - and survival
Nov 16, 2012 (SPX)
China's endangered wild pandas may need new dinner reservations - and quickly - based on models that indicate climate change may kill off swaths of bamboo that ...
Persistence or extinction: Through a mathematical lens
Nov 16, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have estimated that there are 1.7 million species of animals, plants and algae on earth, and new species continue to be discovered. Unfortunately, as...
Venomous Aussie redback spiders zero in on Tokyo
Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)
Australia's venomous redback spider, first sighted in Japan 17 years ago, is crawling toward Tokyo, with at least one of the creepy-crawlies found in a neighbou...
Brazil eyes cloning to bolster endangered species
Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)
Scientists in Brazil will try cloning endangered animal species like the jaguar, a researcher said Wednesday. "The idea is to start with an animal that is endan...
Animal rights group puts bounty on elephant killers
Nov 13, 2012 (AFP)
Animal rights group PETA offered a $1,000 reward Tuesday for information on the killing of three critically-endangered Sumatran elephants near palm oil plantati...
S.Asian vultures stable after near-extinction: study
Nov 12, 2012 (AFP)
The population of South Asian vultures, which suffered a 99 percent drop since the 1990s, has stabilised for the first time, a study said, offering a glimmer of...
China surveys Yangtze dolphin as extinction looms
Nov 11, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese scientists on Sunday began a survey of the dwindling population of an endangered porpoise in the country's longest river, as the animal edges towards ex...
China's endangered pandas face bamboo shortage threat
Nov 11, 2012 (AFP)
Their numbers already threatened by a slow breeding rate and rapid habitat loss, China's endangered giant pandas now also risk losing their staple food, bamboo,...
S. Africa jails Thai rhino horn trader for 40 years
Nov 09, 2012 (AFP)
A Thai national who pleaded guilty to running bogus rhino hunts as cover to sell horns on the black market was sentenced to 40 years in a South African jail on ...
Persistent sync for neurons
Nov 09, 2012 (SPX)
A team of Brazilian physicists working with neuroscientists studying freely behaving rats have found that their neurons often act in precise coordination over t...
Cockatoo 'can make its own tools'
Nov 09, 2012 (SPX)
A cockatoo from a species not known to use tools in the wild has been observed spontaneously making and using tools for reaching food and other objects. A Goffi...
Rare penguins in South Korea for study
Nov 08, 2012 (UPI)
Eleven penguins from an aquarium in Japan have been brought to a South Korean facility to conduct research on the rare species, Korean officials said. The pengu...
Drought in 2001-2002 Fueled Rocky Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak
Nov 08, 2012 (SPX)
Results of a new study show that episodes of reduced precipitation in the Southern Rocky Mountains, especially during the 2001-2002 drought, greatly accelerated...
Sitting still or going hunting: Which works better?
Nov 07, 2012 (SPX)
For the kinds of animals that are most familiar to us - ones that are big enough to see - it's a no-brainer: Is it better to sit around and wait for food to com...
Anthrax kills 30 hippos in S. Africa's renowned Kruger park
Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)
An outbreak of anthrax has killed at least 30 hippopotamus in South Africa's famed Kruger National Park wildlife reserve, the country's parks authority said Tue...
Bengal tiger beaten to death in Bangladesh
Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)
Villagers armed with sticks and boat oars beat a Bengal tiger to death on Tuesday after it attacked a fisherman in southwestern Bangladesh, an official said. Th...
Vienna panda Fu Hu prepares for China with flight training
Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)
Lured into a crate, locked in, then shaken about, Fu Hu, the young star of Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo, munches on bamboo, unperturbed, as he undergoes the panda v...
New York's wildlife, pets suffered in Sandy too
Nov 05, 2012 (AFP)
From Mitik the walrus calf to Ashley the poodle, New York's wildlife, zoo animals and pets went through their share of drama during superstorm Sandy, experts an...
Bird tree tells new tale of evolution
Nov 02, 2012 (SPX)
Using the world's first family tree linking every known bird species, scientists, including two at Simon Fraser University, have discovered that birds appear to...
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