Smithsonian Fragmentation Project threatened by Amazon Colonization Plan
... pumas, tapirs and harpy eagles, which are quickly hunted out of unprotected forests. Now, SUFRAMA (Superintendencia da Zona Franca de Manaus, the Manaus duty free zone oversight commission), which manages a large expanse of central Amazonia, plans to establish colonization projects both inside the study ...Study helps preserve Arctic whale, Eskimo subsistence hunt
... of this period, from various developed countries, hunted many species to the brink of extinction, including... Terms of the quota state that 51 bowheads may be hunted by the member villages of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, which comprises the Inupiat and Sibe...Bigger horns equal better genes
...he Alps mountain range in Europe, alpine ibex were hunted almost to extinction about a century ago for sport and the purported pharmacological properties of their horns. The last survivors were protected in an Italian national park, and the species has slowly repopulated and today is no longer considered en...DNA analysis suggests under-reported kills of threatened whales
... closer to shore than other minke breeds, and were hunted to threatened levels until the IWC passed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. Though it is illegal to directly hunt minke whales in South Korea, those caught in fishing nets can be killed and sold as "bycatch" if officially reported. Econom...Reproductive speed protects large animals from being hunted to extinction
...grazing animals such as deer and antelope that are hunted by humans. The oft-cited causes of habitat loss and living in a limited geographic area also are significant risks for extinction of a species, but under hunting pressure it's reproductive speed that really matters, according to a new statistical a...Remote sheep population resists genetic drift
... were taken from the mouflon that had been kept as hunted "trophies" in the 1960s, and then scientists arrived in the '70s and began collecting samples themselves. "The Haute Island mouflon have presented us with a rare opportunity," Coltman said. "There may be other natural populations that may have been...Tracking sperm whales and jumbo squid
...by Herman Melville in his novel Moby-Dick. Heavily hunted for their oil during Melvilles time, the sperm whale population today ranges somewhere between 360,000 to 1 million. These giants have a voracious appetite for squid. According to one estimate, worldwide sperm whale predation on squid may exceed 100 ...Chimpanzees found to use tools to hunt mammalian prey
...ian preyin other study sites, red colobus monkeys, hunted mainly by males, are the chimps most common preyand on the other hand, the tool use appeared to be primarily restricted to females and immature individuals. These two behavior characteristics could both be related to the fact that the Fongoli communi...Female Antarctic seals give cold shoulder to local males
... climate change." Antarctic fur seals were nearly hunted to extinction in the 17th and 18th Centuries by commercial sealers. There numbers are now estimated at between 2 and 3 million....Human preference for other species could determine whether they survive
... are 17 penguin species, and in the past some were hunted for food or boiled to extract their oil. Some species now struggle to survive climate change, changing food patterns and encounters with humans or human activity, such as oil drilling at sea. The species are fairly similar, with some larger and so...Big vegetarian mammals can play a critical role in maintaining healthy ecosystems, study finds
...elephants and zebras are experimentally removed or hunted out, plant matter accumulates and insect populations increase. "With an increase in insects comes an increase in the insects' predators, such as lizards," Pringle said. "Thus, the actions of a few dominant species ripple throughout the ecosystem." ......by leaving the reef, but prey has nowhere to go if hunted by a combination of these two predators. The article offers a description and accompanying videos, such as the one showing a grouper and eel swimming side by side as if they are good friends on a stroll. It also offers quantification, which is truly ...Researchers determine why wolves not dispersing as fast as expected in Yellowstone
...y. By the 1970s, wolves had been systematically hunted to extinction in the lower 48 states in order to protect livestock. But wolves were a keystone species in the area (i.e. they are predators and nobody preys upon them), and, after 30 years of extinction, researchers felt a reintroduction of the speci...Study confirms ammunition as main source of lead poisoning in condors
...rds are most likely to encounter in the remains of hunted game, and we found that lead from those sources can account for the lead in the blood of 77 percent of the birds tested," said Church, who undertook the study after spending a summer monitoring condors as a volunteer with the Ventana Wildlife Society...University of California, San Diego-led team discovers how we detect sour taste
...hey started with three simple assumptions and then hunted the entire genome. "First, we expected the taste receptors to be embedded in the cell membrane where they could be in contact with taste molecules on the tongue," explained Huang. "Therefore, we narrowed the search down to genes for proteins with ...UGA researchers find that hunting can increase the severity of wildlife disease epidemics
...twenty five percent. "If we want to preserve the hunted population, we should be careful about when we schedule the hunting season compared to birth season because if it's too early or late, it can drive the population to extinction," Rohani said. "If we want to control a disease in the host population, t...West develops taste for primates
...rade, itself only a tiny fraction of the wild meat hunted in Africa, most of which is eaten locally. Primate meat makes up a larger share of what is sold overseas compared with markets in west and central Africa. "I have 27 records of chimpanzee and gorilla parts being sold in the markets," Brashares tol...Wildlife conservation and energy dev't study seeks balance in Rockies
...ghorn can adapt to the presence of humans when not hunted or harassed, but tend to avoid areas that are fragmented by gas fields, roads, and other types of development. 2) Based on statistical models, pronghorn are more prone to use undisturbed parcels greater than 600 acres in size. 3) Animals captured b......s that pre-historic horses in Alaska may have been hunted into extinction by man, rather than by climate change as previously thought. The discovery by Andrew Solow of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, US, David Roberts of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew and Karen Robbirt of the University of East Anglia (U......people (by some accounts) before they were finally hunted down and killed. Those two lions have been on display at The Field Museum since 1925, and are the subject of a major motion picture staring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer called "The Ghost and the Darkness" (Paramount, 1996). While their man-eating...