Local alligator, croc fan taking part in Wild Guide contest
Topeka Capital Journal
With a passion for nature, Zimmer has worked around those and many other types of animals during the past several years, traveling to several parts of the country and world. He has trained and wrestled with crocs and gators, calling it a “giant rush ...

Sudan Vision
Huge Camel Livestock Resource for Sudan, Conference: Sudan has 4.7 Million ...
Sudan Vision
The first scientific conference on a livestock (The Scientific Conference of Camel Research and Production and the theme of the Conference was the "Future Aspects of Camel Improvement and Production) that have played an important role in the life of ...

Scientists unravel secret world of mammoths from clues in ivory tusks
New Zealand Herald
He brought out a tusk he'd acquired on his recent trip to Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, home to the last of the mammoths. This tusk was from an animal that died a mere 6000 years ago. We took it into a small room full of scientific paraphernalia ...

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Times of India
Govt plans to import African cheetah
Times of India
RELATED. NEW DELHI: Armed with 'scientific evidence' that the African cheetah is 'not an alien species' and can survive in India, the government is planning to petition the Supreme Court to allow the import of the animal that became extinct 60 years ago.

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Sea Turtle Comeback: Giant Leatherback Numbers Rebound In Parts Of ...
Huffington Post
A group of African penguins gather near a pond at a conservation site in Cape Town, South Africa. Birdlife ... in October 2004. Sumatran tigers are endangered; fewer than 500 are believed to exist in the wild and 210 animals live in zoos around the world.

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To manage your diabetes, Weird Science recommends the munchies
Ars Technica
Frogs. Xenopus laevis is commonly used in biology research because it's a prodigious producer of eggs that can then be used to study embryonic development. But, before we knew how to directly detect the proteins in human urine that signaled pregnancy, ...

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Suzuki: Biomimicry and bean leaves for bed bugs
The Sudbury Star
An international team of archeologists recently found evidence that people living in South Africa almost 80,000 years ago made bedding out of insect-repelling plants. According to the journal Science, the research team found 15 different layers ...

Africa's oil and gas outlook 2013
Mmegi Online
Africa also produced an estimated 230 billion cubic metres of natural gas in 2012, and this is likely to increase to around 250 bcm in 2013, with new supplies from Angola, Mozambique and Tanzania. Up to 70 oil ... In this piece, Ecobank Research takes ...

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Nature.com
Pregnancy test helped to bring frog-killing fungus to the US
Nature.com
Xenopus frogs are still used for research around the world: between 1998 and 2004, for instance, more than 71,500 of these frogs were exported from Africa as lab animals2. According to international regulations issued by the World Organisation for ...

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89.3 KPCC (blog)
Deadly Amphibian Fungus Plagues Frogs
Global Animal
That earlier study suggested that the spread of chytrid was aided by the pet trade in African clawed frogs and by the animal's widespread use as a research animal. Until the 1970s, the frog was also used in many hospitals as an indicator of human ...
An animal once used as a pregnancy test may be 'the Typhoid Mary of the frog ...89.3 KPCC (blog)
African clawed frog may carry deadly diseaseScience Recorder
Deadly fungus brought into US -- by frogsFox News
Science News -io9 -Nature World News
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Sustainable Intensification: Making Science the Solution for African Agriculture
Huffington Post
Across the agricultural value chain from agricultural research laboratories to agronomists and extension workers in the field and processors and exporters, scientific interventions can help people at each step to make African agriculture a great deal ...

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Press TV
South Africa can count on Russia in nuclear tech, Putin says
Press TV
At the Durban summit, Putin said Moscow could help the African country with extraction of raw materials, construction of nuclear power plants and research reactors as well as the design of nuclear power equipment. South Africa has two nuclear reactors, ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin with South African President Jacob ZumaRIA Novosti

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One Health Team Combats Animal-to-Human Disease Transmission
U.S. Africa Command (press release)
Thamus Morgan, a veterinarian with the 411th Civil Affairs Battalion, in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), discuss best practices about preventing infectious diseases in cattle with civilian and UPDF animal healthcare ...

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Press Statement On the Science and Technology Budget Vote By the Minister of ...
AllAfrica.com
Cabinet recently approved the Information and Communication Technology Research, Development and Innovation (ICT RDI) Roadmap, a plan to guide investment made by the Department, other government departments and industry. ... The IKS Bioprospecting and ...
Hanekom highlights beneficiationThe New Age Online

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Alarm growing as cassava blight spreads to West Africa
Reuters AlertNet (blog)
Previously seen as a major problem, but one confined to eastern and central Africa, the virus is spreading, alarming scientists who say new outbreaks suggest the disease is heading west towards the world's largest cassava producer – Nigeria. So far ...

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National Geographic
African Clawed Frog Spreads Deadly Amphibian Fungus
National Geographic
That earlier study suggested that the spread of chytrid was aided by the pet trade in African clawed frogs and by the animal's widespread use as a research animal. Until the 1970s, the frog was also used in many hospitals as an indicator of human ...
Frog Once Used in Pregnancy Tests Spread Deadly FungusNew York Times
Deadly fungus brought into US -- by frogsFox News
Invasive frogs may spread deadly amphibian fungusScience News
San Jose Mercury News -Science Daily (press release) -TakePart
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RedOrbit
Disease-Carrying African Mongoose Poses Serious Threat To Humans
RedOrbit
New research from Virginia Tech has identified the banded mongoose as one of the biggest public health threats in Africa. According to their report in the journal Zoonoses and Public Health, the mongoose carries a deadly disease called leptospirosis ...

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Bean Leaves, Bedbugs and Biomimicry: Natural Solutions to Modern Problems
Huffington Post Canada
An international team of archeologists recently found evidence that people living in South Africa almost 80,000 years ago made bedding out of insect-repelling plants. According to the journal Science, the research team found 15 different layers ...

A Mind for Animals: An Interview with Virginia Morell
KQED (blog)
I began to wonder what the scientists themselves felt about their discoveries and I wanted to show how we know these things. How do you get around the problem of not being able to ask an animal. When journalists report on the latest science news, we ...

Gorongosa National Park
National Geographic
Before Mozambique's civil war ravaged it, Gorongosa National Park was roamed by elephants, African buffalo, hippopotamuses, lions, warthogs, and more than a dozen species of antelope. Now some of those animals are coming back, thanks largely to Greg ...
An Expedition Back in Time in MozambiqueNatGeo News Watch (blog)

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