The job gives them a chance to interact with their favorite creatures, and in many cases, cure animals of disease.
In the past year, scientists have discovered that a new kind of gene --one Lander and his colleagues would not have recognized--is present in the genomes of many animals.
After the introduction of the Dangerous Wild Animals Act in 1976, many private collectors are thought to have turned their animals loose.
This figure does not include the animals lost by habitat destruction and pollution, which in Europe alone counts for many millions of animals.
Researchers say there have been so many health problems in cloned animals, including Dolly herself, that it would not be ethical to attempt to create a cloned human.
Nonetheless, some Americans hang on to their weapons because they enjoy hunting or target practice, or live in places with too many wild animals or too few policemen.
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It showed polar bear cubs in a den with their mother, with many people assuming the young animals were born and filmed in the Arctic.
Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.
Studies in Australia, Brazil and the United States suggest that animals in half or more of farms in many parts of those countries are infested with drug-resistant worms.
First, bingeing and starving is how many animals tend to feed in the wild.
Implantable sensors exist for a number of applications, having been used in animals for pet identification for many years.
"But if you look at how many species of animals are in the area, I think it would be less, " Hajduch said.
Otherwise we are drawing a moral circle around our own species, even when the members of our own species protected by that moral boundary are not superior in any moral relevant characteristics to many nonhuman animals who fall outside the moral circle.
And this comes despite many consumers being aware than animals in Australia are slaughtered far more humanely.
But BUAV says many countries in the world still test on animals for cosmetics and the group is now pressing for a global ban.
It features the largest concentration of plains animals in Africa, and while many safari destinations vary seasonally, it offering visitors some the best game viewing drives all year-round, with the famously huge migrating herds of wildebeest, zebra, antelope and gazelle as well as lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, buffalo, rhinoceros, hippopotamuses, crocodiles and abundant birdlife.
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The researchers point to many similarities between hiccuping and gill ventilation in animals such as tadpoles.
The annual stock take of an aquarium in Cornwall is under way to find out how many animals it has.
There are such animals, in fact, but not many (only about 1% of mammals show any male parental care at all).
It would be interesting to see, observed Dr Smulders, just how many other animals displayed this trait - in particular, in primates.
Many of the animals have never lived in social groups before and have never seen an adult monkey, as they are the offspring of monkeys taken from the wild for breeding.
Many of the animals killed for food in these countries were once racehorses, and the use of bute at racetracks across the US is so widespread that one scientist speaking to the New York Times called these horses "walking pharmacies".
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Thousands of uninsured and underinsured people showed up for free care, and many were treated in the section of the county fairgrounds where barnyard animals are usually kept.
Gaia, Greek Goddess of Earth, was worshipped on the island of Crete as the ancient mistress of all the animals, and the many cults that grew up in her name gave rise to modern geography, the now accepted biochemical Gaia Hypothesis, and what the ancient Greeks considered the most sacred of all oaths: our indebtedness to Earth.
Hoenig, the Maine state veterinarian, said the allegations included keeping too many birds in cases, failing to treat injured chickens or promptly remove dead animals, and improper euthanization.
Animal Planet normally films the frolicking in October in order to edit the show by Super Bowl Sunday, so many of the animals are already adopted by airtime.
Relatively little data existed on health problems in marine mammals in the 1960s, and Dr. Kenney pioneered basic health care for many of the animals he treated.
Not many animals have enough charisma to pull off a wildly popular television series watched in 164 countries, but it is all in a day's work for South Africa's goofy meerkats, whose behaviour and cooperative social structure make these mongoose cousins unique.
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"Farmers are telling us that they have so many dead stock that they're struggling to get those animals collected, particularly in remote areas where driving to those farms with lorries to pick up the stock is really difficult, " she told BBC Radio Wales.
Gray wolves hunt the large animals like elk that were eating so many plants that some of the fauna was in danger of disappearing.
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