Sea Turtles Have Favorite Oceanic Routes
...ne life. Scientists have learned that the turtles prefer specific ocean routes as if traveling an aquatic interstate highway. "They're all going along the same corridors," said Stephen J. Morreale, Cornell University doctoral candidate in zoology, who did the research for Cornell's New York Cooperative Fis...Researchers Develop Model Using Birds As Indicator Of Wetlands Health
...tor for several reasons.Different species of birds prefer different environments. So ifyou find many water-loving birds and few birds adapted to drierhabitats, that's an indication that the wetland environment isthriving. Birds are also fairly easy to track. "If you look at butterflies or certain insects, t...Pharmaceuticals Manufactured In Insect Larvae
..." Wood said. What Hughes observed is that insects prefer getting their footing on the edges of surfaces, not directly on flat surfaces. Hughes developed a box full of close-spaced pillars -- pillars shaped like small popsicle sticks -- and puts the insects in the box. He also put food in the box. The ins...Gene Locus Found For Essential Tremor Disorder
...and may have disturbing side effects. Many people prefer to live with thetremor rather than experience the discomfort of medication side effects. "With President Clinton asking for more volunteerism in America, we can lookwith gratitude to the families who volunteer for neurogenetic studies," says Ms.Nee. ...Research Into Cockroach Behavior Could Lead To Better Baits
...an Entomology Laboratory. First, she found roaches prefer to walk on fecal material rather than a clean surface. So she laid out trails and found roaches will, indeed, follow where other roaches have traveledbefore. "The pheromones are communication devices between cockroaches," Miller said. "If you have an...Birds Sing The 'Story Of Their Lives,' Theorize Duke Biologists
...t have more complex songs -- or songs that females prefer --went through the learning process better, because their brains developed better. It's because they were better nourished or less stressed during this criticalperiod in the late nestling, early fledgling phase." Thus, said Nowicki, the song ...Fish Farmers Must Learn Zebra Mussel Prevention From A To Z
...ms. Because zebra mussels are filter feeders, they prefer settling in high-current areas which will bring a lot of food their way -- such as an intake pump. Swann says the mussels pose two other potential problems: Some of their European ancestors harbor organisms that can cause diseases in fish, and their ...You Could Eat Your Dinner Off That...
...t a thriving population of bacteria, which tend to prefer dampenvironments. At the start of the study, the researchers found a million times as manybacteria in the fluid wrung from dishcloths as on toilet seats. Even choppingboards hosted three times as many bacteria. There was a dramatic improvemen...News Backgrounder: Duke Primate Center Successfully Fosters Mysterious Aye-Ayes
...heeting. Also, since the animals areforagers, they prefer to work for their board. "Their natural foraging technique is to dig things out to eat, sothey're basically uninterested in food if it's just presented to them in abowl," said Williams. Thus, the technicians put the basic aye-aye diet...Research Shows How Shrimps Escape Predators
...reshwater Shrimp Has To Keep On The Move Hunters prefer to stalk from downwind to prevent odours alerting their prey. Inthe same way, fish hunt from downstream. But now researchers have found thatfresh-water shrimps subvert this strategy by creating tiny currents to enablethem to sense the chemical odour ...Beaver, Architects To The Birds
...erganser were the most common species seen. Geese prefer the more open olderand abandoned ponds, while wood...onds, the alder flycatcher andred-winged blackbird prefer older ponds and the swamp sparrow, commonyellowthroat and veery were found in all beaver pond habita...Paper Wasp Queens Wait To Hijack Or Adopt
...off," says Starks. These sit-and-wait female wasps prefer to adopt the most mature nests, probablybecause these nests will produce workers the soonest, and colonies with workersare very likely to survive. Starks explains that once a queen adopts a nest shewill eat the former queen's eggs and young larvae a......he subsurface, soil and oceans. Scientists prefer to call bacteria "prokaryotes," a term that describesa single-cell organism without a nucleus. Prokaryotes are extraordinarilydiverse and range from plant-like cells that produce molecular oxygen in theoceans to soil-borne bacteria responsible for fe...How Mammals Learn To Recognise Their Mother
...not distressed when separated fromit, nor did they prefer their "own" object to a novel one. Guinea pigs of ...ause otherwisethey would avoid unknown animals and prefer the empty cage. Because most mammal mothers make a clear distinction between theirown progeny and t...Symposium Explores Neandertal Question, Mystery Of Human Origins
... origins. Paleoanthropologists, however, sometimes prefer to turn the question aroundand ask instead, Who are we not? Who did we replace? How were they differentfrom us? Recent research on Neandertals, who were either our closest cousinsor one of our most recent ancestors, perhaps provides some of the mostr...MicroCAT A Welcome Sight To Geneticists And Mice
...ble upon request) Notes To Editors: If you would prefer to receive your press releases by e-mail, please send youre-mail address to culverjw@ornl.gov You may read other press releases from Oak Ridge National Laboratory or learnmore about the lab if you have access to the Internet. You can find ourinform...Birds Of A Feather: The Physics Of Flocks
...r. In the absence of heat, twoneighboring magnets prefer to line up perfectly with each other, because itcosts the smallest amount of energy for them to be aligned. But a little heatcan add enough energy to the material to misalign the magnets, therebyintroducing a sort of "error" in the material. Vicsek ...Genetic Uniqueness Threatens Florida Manatee's Future
...n specifichabitat features. The vegetarian animals prefer protected coastal watersand rivers, where seagrasses or fresh water vegetation are abundant, saidBowen, who is supervising Garcia's research. "It's very much against their well-being to travel across open water."Bowen said. "Out there, they are big, ...New Forest Owners Prefer Enjoying Their Land Over Working It
...thermore, results suggest many of those landowners prefer to use theproperty for fun instead of farming. Non...y, they tend to be more educated and wealthier and prefer moreenvironmental attributes of their land such as wildlife and recreationrather than just timber pr...International Genome Team Deciphers Genetic Instructions For A Complete Animal
... cousins are parasites, butdirt-ranging C. elegans prefer a benign existence among rotting plants. Back atthe lab, the creatures live in petri dishes on a steady diet of the bacterium E.coli. Although it occupies a relatively distant branch on the evolutionary tree, C.elegans nevertheless shares many simi...