Other Animals

Magazine articles on other animals and pets.

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Chemistry World March 26, 2007 John Bonner	Termites' Enzyme Anomaly Japanese researchers have discovered a previously unknown method used by termites to digest cellulose. The discovery offers a novel source of enzymes to assist in the production of biofuels, they suggest.
Smithsonian April 2007 Steve Twomey	Barbaro's Legacy The effort to save the fallen champion shows how far equine medicine has come in recent years. And how far it still has to go.
Chemistry World March 23, 2007 John Bonner	Mice Get Full-Colour Vision Genetically engineered mice that see the world in full color, or at least in the same colors as humans see, have been created in a US lab. Most mammals lost the ability to distinguish colors during the age of the dinosaurs.
TIME Europe March 15, 2007 John Cloud	Why the Buffalo Roam Sometimes you have to eat an animal to save it. That paradox may disturb vegetarians, but consider the bison.
Wired March 2007 Sonia Zjawinski	A View to a Kill Brace yourself: Every hunt you've ever seen on a nature show has been a scam.
Science News March 3, 2007 Janet Raloff	Marlin Crash May Be Worse Than Reported A newly identified species of billfish resembles white marlins so closely that its presence might be masking how decimated Atlantic stocks of the marlin really are.
Smithsonian March 2007 Sam Hooper Samuels	Curtains for the Pallid Sturgeon Can biologists breed the "Dinosaurs of the Missouri" fast enough to stave off their extinction?
TIME Europe February 8, 2007 Joel Stein	Horse -- It's What's for Dinner In our country the thought of eating horse is so taboo that the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act was just reintroduced in Congress -- although there are even fewer horses eaten than flags burned. Morality based on aesthetics is pretty shallow.
TIME Asia February 8, 2007 Zoher Abdoolcarim	The Measure of a Horse To the folk of Hong Kong, the race horse Silent Witness was a hero; to true followers of the turf, worldwide, a legend. Now, put to pasture, he deserves to be known for who he really was.
HHMI Bulletin February 2007 Susan Gaidos	Compensatory Tactics The power of mouse genetics provides HHMI investigator Susan Ackerman a whole new view of the mechanisms behind neurodegeneration.
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