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Hello Sunshine
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VSP.
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The emotional story of how a racehorse changed a boys life.
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acacia alba
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I saw that story awhile back, VSP, and isnt it just a great story .
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animals before people.
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Gay3
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Gene Therapy spays cats without surgeryIn a first in the realm of spay and neuter programs for dogs and cats, scientists announced they’ve created a one-shot contraceptive for female felines, which eliminates the need for a traditional surgical spaying. The shot formula involves inserting a hormone gene into an adeno-associated virus commonly used in gene therapy to transport the replacement genes into the cats’ cells. The shot is injected into the thigh muscle. Researchers said they’re not sure how, exactly, it works — whether via a mechanism in the cats’ follicles or something else — but, so far, in almost two years they’ve had no pregnancies. In fact, in some cases the felines simply refused to mate. Research is being continued to see if gene therapy also works in dogs.
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Wisdom has been chasing me but I've always outrun it!
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A mother deer stops traffic & convinces a driver to follow her to rescue her baby stuck in nets. And one more magic happens at the end. Kindness brings out the best. https://twitter.com/i/status/1670078573279956992
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Wisdom has been chasing me but I've always outrun it!
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animals before people.
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Hello Sunshine
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Alaskan wildlife troopers rescue deer from cold waters, giving them lift in boatTwo deer struggling in the waters of south-east Alaska's famed Inside Passage have made it to land thanks to two Alaska Wildlife Troopers who gave the animals a lift in their boat. Key points:
Sergeant Mark Finses and trooper Kyle Feuge were returning from a patrol in nearby Ernest Sound to Ketchikan on October 10 when they spotted the deer, agency spokesperson Justin Freeman told The Associated Press. The deer were about 6.4 kilometres from any island in the channel, which is favoured by large cruise ships taking tourists in summer months to locations such as Ketchikan and Juneau. The deer were floating down Clarence Strait about 22.5 kilometres north-west of Ketchikan, but not toward any particular island, Mr Freeman said. They were fighting the current during mid-tide. "Out in the middle of Clarence, they're in rough shape, like on their last leg," Mr Finses said on a video he shot with his phone and that the troopers posted to social media. The troopers stopped their 10-metre patrol vessel about 137 metres from the two deer, which saw the boat and headed towards it. The troopers shut off the engines so the animals would not be spooked. When the deer reached the boat, they butted their heads against it, then swam right up the swim step, at which point the troopers helped them get the rest of the way onboard. Once in the boat, the deer shivered from their time in the cold water. The average temperature of the water in Ketchikan in October is 10.2 degrees Celsius, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "I'm soaked to the bone," Mr Finses says in the video. "I had to pick them up and bear hug them to get them off our deck and get them on the beach." Once back on land, the deer initially had difficulty standing and walking, Mr Freeman said. But eventually, they were able to walk around slowly before trotting off. "The deer ended up being completely OK," he said. It is common to see deer swimming in south-east Alaska waters, going from one island to another. Mr Freeman said what was not common was having deer swim up to a boat and trying to get on it. |
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Great story Gay.
Just hope they're not currently hanging up in the Copper's cool room.
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Elephants give each other names — the 1st non-human animals to do so, study claimsElephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park appear to call to each other with individual names using low, complex "rumbles," a study has found. Name a famous elephant. Babar, perhaps? Or Dumbo? Memorable though these monikers may be to humans, they sound nothing like the names elephants give each other. If you're an elephant, your name is something more like a low, rumbling sound, scientists say. In a new paper published Aug. 23 on the preprint server BioRxiv, researchers found that African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) made vocalizations specific to individuals in their social groups — and that the recipients responded accordingly. In short, elephants appear to have names for one another. This makes them the first non-human animals to address each other in a manner that does not imitate the receiver's own call, as dolphins and parrots do. And while other animals do produce what are known as "referential calls" in order to identify objects just as predators or food, those calls are believed to be instinctive and do not require social learning. In the new study, the team recorded 527 elephant calls in the greater Samburu ecosystem in northern Kenya and 98 calls in the Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya. The researchers then identified rumbles specific to 119 individuals by discerning which members of groups of female elephants and their offspring were separated from the herd at the time of each vocalization or approached when the call was made. Using a computer model, the researchers correctly identified the receivers of 20.3% of the 625 recorded calls. This marks a step forward in understanding how these highly intelligent animals communicate. "There's a contact rumble, there's an anti-predator rumble, there's a greeting rumble. If you look at a spectrogram, they all look almost exactly the same, or exactly the same," Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell, an elephant biologist at Harvard University Medical School who was not involved in the study, told Live Science. "That's why AI has been exciting. It allows us to really figure out what the elephants are honing in on." As it turned out, the calls were not generic sounds aimed at, for example, younger elephants or mothers. They were distinct to the receiver. Even calls from different callers to the same receiver were similar — though the pattern was less obvious than it was between a single caller and receiver. This may be because rumbles encode multiple messages simultaneously, so the computer model may not have been able to pick out the "name" used in each call, the authors wrote in the study. "It just highlights the complexity of what's going on," O'Connell-Rodwell said. "And we're not skilled enough at what those measurements should be to figure out what's going on." The researchers also found that elephants responded more strongly to recordings of calls originally addressed to them than to calls addressed to other elephants, further supporting their findings. "The real value of this paper is that it shows how elephants are navigating through a large landscape and can still keep in touch with specific individuals," O'Connell-Rodwell said. "It allows them to spread out much further and still have very close tabs on individuals, not just the group. It's not just like, I'm sending out a ping. Somebody else is sending out a ping. It's much more sophisticated than that." |
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