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Researchers are excited by the birth of a Giant Panda conceived using frozen sperm at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in southwestern Sichuan province. The baby’s mother is eleven-year-old You You, and the father is Lolo, whose sperm had reportedly been frozen years ago. Pandas are commonly conceived using artificial insemination, as they apparently [...]
South Africa has announced that in an effort to crack down on rhino poaching, rhinos across the country will be microchipped. But isn’t that what they said last year? Here is the “big announcement” about microchipping all the rhinos and rhino horns: South Africa announced sweeping new anti-poaching measures Friday, requiring an ID microchip for [...]
Three species of Gyps vulture are in danger of extinction – poisoned by the use of diclofenac in livestock. India, Nepal, and Pakistan have lost 95% of their vulture populations. As recently as the early 1980′s, there were approximately 40 million vultures in India, comprised of nine species. Now there are only 60,000 of these [...]
A team of biologists located rare mountain yellow-legged frogs, Rana muscosa, in the San Bernardino National Forest. Two groups of scientists recently spotted the frogs at two separate locations less than three miles apart in the Tahquitz and Willow Creek areas of California. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) biologist Adam Backlin, who led the team along the Tahquitz Creek area, said, ”If [...]
