Other Animals

Magazine articles on other animals and pets.

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Chemistry World December 1, 2006 Victoria Gill	Organophosphate Study Reprieved A landmark study into the human health effects of organophosphate chemicals used in sheep dip will resume, according to the UK's Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs.
Smithsonian December 2006 Owen Edwards	Beard's Eye View When elephants began dying, Peter Beard suspected that poachers were not entirely to blame.
Smithsonian November 2006 Eric Jaffe	Unwelcome Guests A team of researchers has discovered a pattern in the gypsy moth's advance that might go a long way toward curbing the American invasion -- a battle that has cost roughly $200 million in the past 20 years.
Chemistry World November 6, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Keeping Mosquitoes at Bay Researchers have discovered that a chemical exuded by the colourful skin of poison frogs is a superb mosquito repellent.
Smithsonian November 2006 Paul Raffaele	The Smart and Swinging Bonobo Civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has threatened the existence of wild bonobos, while new research on the hypersexual primates challenges their peace-loving reputation.
Smithsonian November 2006 Paul Raffaele	Speaking Bonobo With bonobo and other ape-language experiments, the mythology of human uniqueness is coming under challenge. If apes can learn language, which we once thought unique to humans, then it suggests that ability is not innate in just us.
Smithsonian November 2006 Paul Raffaele	Bonobo Paradise Founded by Claudine Andre, a Belgian woman raised in the Congo, Lola Ya Bonobo is home to 52 bonobos, from infants to adults, most of them orphaned when their mothers were slaughtered for bushmeat.
Science News September 16, 2006 Janet Raloff	Sea Turtles--What Not To Eat Wildlife scientists hope to reduce widespread consumption of sea turtle meat and other products by pointing out the health risks they pose.
Financial Advisor September 2006 Karen DeMasters	To The Rescue How this financial advisor's favorite pastime helps save marine mammals.
Scientific American September 2006 Steve Mirsky	Requiem for a Heavyweight A Galapagos tortoise's heart, which began beating when Abraham Lincoln was barely out of his teens, finally stopped on June 23. Biologists say Harriet was over 175 years old.
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