No species of animal, Mr Singer believes, has claim to special treatment, not even humans.
These are recognisable types of footprint that cannot be matched precisely with the species of animal that left them.
You and I must grab onto this notion: The gold is not in creating some new species of animal.
Extensive ecological studies are underway in three African countries, including DR Congo, to try to find the "reservoir" - this work essentially involves checking for signs of the virus in thousands of different species of animal, in order to identify the carrier.
The chromosomes of a given species of plant or animal will contain many such repeated sequences, and these will be found at predictable places along those chromosomes.
The BGI has already solved the genomes of rice, cucumbers, soyabeans and sorghum, honeybees, water fleas, pandas, lizards and silkworms, and some 40 other species of plant and animal, along with over 1, 000 bacteria.
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The aim is to ensure that scientific knowledge about the very rapid disappearance of a great number of vegetable and animal species and the erosion of ecosystems leads to concrete measures.
It is found naturally in a wide range of animal species, including horses, sheep, goats and cattle.
Mass extinctions, says Anthony Barnosky, are geological events in which at least 75% of animal species were wiped out.
In response to missing the biodiversity targets, Environment Minister Jane Davidson AM introduced a new national environment framework to safeguard the future of animal species and plants in Wales.
Many species of titi monkeys, a species from South America, are in an endangered animal list by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites).
Co-operation of a sort among different animal species is also quite common, though not very surprising, since members of different species are not generally competing with each other for food, still less for sexual partners.
We now know that the hot-springs that sustain these "vent" ecosystems occur in every ocean basin and are host to hundreds of previously unknown animal species.
These groups have employed a strategy of attempting to overwhelm the USFW with proposals to list hundreds of plant and animal species that exist in abundance over large geographic areas that are home to oil and gas exploration, wind farm development, major solar installations, highway projects and other significant human development projects.
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There are more than 1, 650 plant species, of which 44 are endemic, and over 2, 000 animal species.
It is one of the least hospitable but most biologically diverse places on earth and home to thousands of plant and and animal species previously unknown to science.
There is already so little old-growth forest left that it threatens the long-term survival of many plant and animal species, so continuing to log such forests is deeply irresponsible.
Watson considers religion to be the invention of an arrogant species that has spent too much of its existence attempting to remove itself from the animal kingdom.
They squander land, damage plant and animal species through the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides, and waste huge amounts of water.
The core area of this site is of great value in the protection of marine ecosystems and the habitats of various important plant and animal species.
Some, like Wellington's Victoria University biologist Wayne Linklater, writing in Wellington's Dominion Post, have questioned the use of money on an animal whose species is not endangered.
In his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, Full studies the biomechanics behind animal movement, trying to identify which species are the best at executing specific types of motion, such as running, climbing or crawling and then attempting to pinpoint exactly what biological features makes these creatures so skilled at what they do.
The area is rich in plant and animal life with over 38 threatened species of flora and fauna.
It also showed that 278 wild plant and animal species in Wiltshire are in need of conservation action.
For example, at higher altitudes only certain plant and animal species can survive under long periods of snow and ice cover.
About 90% of its plant species exist nowhere else on the planet, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, and many of its bird, reptile and animal species -- including all the world's lemurs in the wild -- are endemic.
Across the island in David Hyrenbach's lab, the impact of plastic debris is apparent among the animal species he studies: birds.
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No one now knows how easy it would be to turbo-charge an existing human pathogen, or take one that infects another type of animal and assist its passage over the species barrier.
Toronto Animal Services noted that the monkey species can carry a type of herpes dangerous to humans.
Thus, whereas other animal species must resort to constant vigilance to reduce the risks of infidelity, humans (or at least those who have a faith) have an extra tool in the box: religion.
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