veterinary corporations (26.5%), pet insurance companies (17.1%), animal welfare charities (5.9%), and academic institutions (5.5%). Project participants who provided data to this project include: Battersea Dogs and Cats Home; Blue Cross; SSPCA;...
In September 2006, while filming a documentary calledOcean’s Deadliestnear Australia’sGreat Barrier Reef, Irwin swam over a venomous bullstingrayin shallow water, inadvertently provoking the animal to attack. He was stung in the chest and immediately went intocardiac arrest, and he was pronounced...
Spring rains bring out a great variety of desert wildflowers. Animal life is varied, although nocturnal habits conceal many of the animals from visitors to the valley. Rabbits and several types of rodents, including antelope ground squirrels, kangaroo rats, and desert wood rats, are present and...
Increasing adoption rates at animal shelters: a two-phase approach to predict length of stay and optimal shelter allocation nearly 3–4 million (i.e., 50% of the incoming animals) are euthanized, and 10–25% of them are put to death specifically because of shelter overc... J Bradley,S...
K Johnson - 《Animal Behaviour》 被引量: 183发表: 1988年 SEXUAL SELECTION IN TOADS: THE ROLES OF FEMALE CHOICE AND MALE BODY SIZE Sexual selection can act either by interactions among individuals of one sex in which successful contestants have increased access to the opposite sex (e.g. male...
While some of the boy’s remains, recovered between 2013 and 2015, had been scavenged by wild animals, the skull fracture was likely not caused by animals, France said. Mark Redwine, 59, is charged with second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in the death of Dy...
As lighthearted as the event can be, Fritz said what happened Monday was a reminder of the threats these bears often encounter in the wild. "We love to celebrate the success of bears with full stomachs and ample body fat," said Fritz. "But the ferocity of bears is real, the risks ...
Fig. 7: The pathogenicity and developmental defects induced by MBcCrh1 depend on expression levels. The following strains were characterized: B. cinerea wild type (wt), enzyme inactive BcCrh1 with the native promoter in the background of bccrh1 deletion (Δ/NP-MBcCrh1), overexpression of MBc...
The strong desire of commentators to express their want for one as a pet demonstrates the need for Web 2.0 sites to provide a mechanism via which illegal animal material can be identified and policed. 展开 关键词: Animals Lorisidae Internet Endangered Species Social Media ...
but they occasionally visit the valley floor. Wildburros,descendantsof animals lost or abandoned by prospectors and miners, became so numerous as to threaten, through overgrazing, the natural vegetation on which other animals depend. Burro removal began in the 1960s, and live-capture efforts were...