"Reintroducing wolves into native habitats, researchers from the National Park Service write in the latest issue of BioScience, can help restore damaged ecosystems. Doing so in national parks and other areas, they say, would foster greater biodiversity and could even encourage tourism. But there is a caveat: The initial populations would have to be small and carefully managed, not self-sustaining."
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"'In 1959, Soviet scientist Dmitri Belyaev set out to breed a tamer fox that would be easier for their handlers in the Russian fur industry to work with. Much to the scientist's shock, changes no one had expected emerged after just 10 generations. The foxes began behaving playfully, were smaller in size, and even changed color - much like dogs.' Belyaev died in 1985, but the experiment continued in his absence, and to this day provides strong evidence to parts of evolutionary theory. The experiment eventually branched out to involve other species as well (rats)."
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A six-year-old Chinese girl has doctors puzzled after thick grey hair started growing all over her body, earning her the nickname "cat-girl". Li Xiaoyuan, from Fengkai in southern China, had a small birthmark on her back just months ago, which has grown to cover her entire back and parts of her arms and face.
A surgeon at Zhaoqing City Dermalogical l Hospital in Guangdong province said Li Xiaoyuan may have a rare skin disease that makes normal moles run amok. There's a larger picture in The Metro. read more »
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A surgeon at Zhaoqing City Dermalogical l Hospital in Guangdong province said Li Xiaoyuan may have a rare skin disease that makes normal moles run amok. There's a larger picture in The Metro. read more »
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Preliminary results have been released for a psychological survey taken at Anthrocon 2009 this July.
The survey team was led by Dr. Kathy Gerbasi, and has run surveys at Anthrocon since 2006, covering topics such as connections with other species, species dysphoria and gender identity disorder, happiness and social rejection, and the reasons furry fans wear (or do not wear) fursuits.
This year's survey focussed on determining sociability, empathy, sex role identification, and social desirability, as well as continuing research into furry identity. read more »
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The survey team was led by Dr. Kathy Gerbasi, and has run surveys at Anthrocon since 2006, covering topics such as connections with other species, species dysphoria and gender identity disorder, happiness and social rejection, and the reasons furry fans wear (or do not wear) fursuits.
This year's survey focussed on determining sociability, empathy, sex role identification, and social desirability, as well as continuing research into furry identity. read more »
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"Findings revealed January 23 in the journal Theriogenology describe the use of frozen skin in 2003 to clone a bucardo, or Pyrenean ibex, a subspecies of Spanish ibex that went extinct in 2000."
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A recent study has shown it may be impossible to create stem cells by making hybrid human/animal embryos.
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Reposted from Wikifur:
"After two years since it first began asking for participants, The Furry Sociological Survey was published online on October 23rd, 2008. The study was based one of the earliest surveys of the furry community: The Sociology of Furry Fandom by David Rust, which was published online in 2001. Rust's survey is arguably one of the most known and referenced study of the furry community."
You can compare this to earlier fandom-wide surveys:
http://www.klisoura.com/furrypoll.php
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"After two years since it first began asking for participants, The Furry Sociological Survey was published online on October 23rd, 2008. The study was based one of the earliest surveys of the furry community: The Sociology of Furry Fandom by David Rust, which was published online in 2001. Rust's survey is arguably one of the most known and referenced study of the furry community."
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http://www.klisoura.com/furrypoll.php
http://studyf3.livejournal.com/1383.html read more »
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Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count giant kangaroo rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space.
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