Science news articles about 'uk zoos'Stress and lack of exercise are killing elephants, zoos warned
... examined the welfare of 77 elephants in 13 UK zoos. It found that the animals spent 83% of their time ... shows elephants die young in Europe's zoos, and those Asian elephants born in captivity have a poor ... Elephant legs are much bendier than Shakespeare thought
... ' as people had thought? Traveling to Thailand and several UK zoos, Hutchinson and his team investigated how ... ; Thai racing elephants that easily outpaced the UK elephants at 6.8m/s.
Back in the lab, ... Classical music: Elgar helps calm zoo elephants
... all been helping animal behaviour experts to make life more comfortable for the elephants at Belfast zoo.The researchers have discovered that playing classical music to the animals reduces abnormal ... Killer whales, blind bats, discriminating dolphins, mating birds
... Research Hospital, Douglas L. Armstrong (douga@omahazoo.com) from the Henry Doorly Zoo, and their colleagues will present the most recent findings of the Omaha Tiger Project, one of the first and ... 'Cosmic ghost' discovered by volunteer astronomer
... Schawinski, a member and co-founder of the Galaxy Zoo team.
Scientists working at telescopes around ... Lintott, a co-organizer of Galaxy Zoo at Oxford University, UK. "It's rather like examining ... Captive breeding introduced infectious disease to Mallorcan amphibians
... in the late 1990s, screening for the disease was incorporated into amphibian conservation plans. Zoos are now moving towards breeding threatened frogs in strictly quarantined, biosecure facilities in ... How likely is mammoth cloning?
... London. "Let's suppose we create a mammoth and put it in a zoo. Then what. Do we want a herd?"There are ... will go extinct in our lifetimes.Geneticsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | ... The strangulation of spiral galaxies
... type of galaxy that represents a missing link in our understanding of galaxy evolution. Galaxy Zoo, which uses volunteers from the general public to classify galaxies and the Space Telescope A901/902 ... 'As we clambered off the yacht, we felt like explorers'
... publication of On the Origin of Species, to see for myself this zoo without cages, these islands that changed the world. ... (020 7873 5000; coxandkings.co.uk), which offers a 10-night Galapagos itinerary ... Tim Radford: A black hole at the heart of the Milky Way confirms we're nothing special
... in Andromeda and other nearby galaxies. If black holes were a standard feature of the galactic zoo, then there had to be one at the heart of the Milky Way. The catch, of course, is that from where we ...
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Stress and lack of exercise are killing elephants, zoos warned
... examined the welfare of 77 elephants in 13 UK zoos. It found that the animals spent 83% of their time ... shows elephants die young in Europe's zoos, and those Asian elephants born in captivity have a poor ...Elephant legs are much bendier than Shakespeare thought
... ' as people had thought? Traveling to Thailand and several UK zoos, Hutchinson and his team investigated how ... ; Thai racing elephants that easily outpaced the UK elephants at 6.8m/s. Back in the lab, ...Classical music: Elgar helps calm zoo elephants
... all been helping animal behaviour experts to make life more comfortable for the elephants at Belfast zoo.The researchers have discovered that playing classical music to the animals reduces abnormal ...Killer whales, blind bats, discriminating dolphins, mating birds
... Research Hospital, Douglas L. Armstrong (douga@omahazoo.com) from the Henry Doorly Zoo, and their colleagues will present the most recent findings of the Omaha Tiger Project, one of the first and ...'Cosmic ghost' discovered by volunteer astronomer
... Schawinski, a member and co-founder of the Galaxy Zoo team. Scientists working at telescopes around ... Lintott, a co-organizer of Galaxy Zoo at Oxford University, UK. "It's rather like examining ...Captive breeding introduced infectious disease to Mallorcan amphibians
... in the late 1990s, screening for the disease was incorporated into amphibian conservation plans. Zoos are now moving towards breeding threatened frogs in strictly quarantined, biosecure facilities in ...How likely is mammoth cloning?
... London. "Let's suppose we create a mammoth and put it in a zoo. Then what. Do we want a herd?"There are ... will go extinct in our lifetimes.Geneticsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | ...The strangulation of spiral galaxies
... type of galaxy that represents a missing link in our understanding of galaxy evolution. Galaxy Zoo, which uses volunteers from the general public to classify galaxies and the Space Telescope A901/902 ...'As we clambered off the yacht, we felt like explorers'
... publication of On the Origin of Species, to see for myself this zoo without cages, these islands that changed the world. ... (020 7873 5000; coxandkings.co.uk), which offers a 10-night Galapagos itinerary ...Tim Radford: A black hole at the heart of the Milky Way confirms we're nothing special
... in Andromeda and other nearby galaxies. If black holes were a standard feature of the galactic zoo, then there had to be one at the heart of the Milky Way. The catch, of course, is that from where we ...