Measles-like virus blamed for Atlantic dolphin deaths
A dolphin virus that is similar to measles in humans is suspected of causing the deaths of hundreds of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins since July, US officials said Tuesday.
View ArticleStudy: Multi-country bovine neonatal pancytopenia
Bovine neonatal pancytopenia (BNP) first emerged as a novel disease syndrome in 2007; initially in Germany, and soon afterwards in several other European countries including the United Kingdom, the...
View ArticleWhat matters for making milk: Study shows fetal sex can influence milk...
A new study, co-authored by a Harvard scientist, offers the first-ever evidence that fetal sex can affect the amount of milk cows produce, a finding that could have major economic implications for U.S....
View ArticleCows are smarter when raised in pairs
Cows learn better when housed together, which may help them adjust faster to complex new feeding and milking technologies on the modern farm, a new University of British Columbia study finds.
View ArticleElephant age estimated from voice
A paper published in Bioacoustics explains how researchers have been able to estimate the age of an elephant based on its vocal sounds. Results showed that they could distinguish infants, calves,...
View ArticleTeen elephant mothers die younger but have bigger families, study finds
Asian elephants that give birth as teenagers die younger than older mothers but raise bigger families during their lifetime, according to new research from the University of Sheffield.
View ArticlePoor nutrition suggested for humpack strandings
A record number of deaths and strandings of humpback whales in Western Australia has raised concern about the impacts of climate change on ocean food webs.
View ArticleStudy compares relationship between cattle welfare and trailer microclimate...
Humane transport of livestock is important for both carcass quality and animal welfare. However, it is difficult to mitigate stress for animals in-transit. During a typical journey, calves lose weight...
View ArticleBison mating observations fall short of predicting reproductive success
Most mammal reproduction studies aim to not only discover who the fathers are but also to learn why some males sire more offspring than others. This is complicated since many male animals, including...
View ArticleSoundness exams, genetic testing improve herd performance
The value of a herd bull is determined not just by his genetic merit, but also by the number of calves he may or may not sire, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist.
View ArticleEarly separation of cow and calf has long-term effects on social behaviour
Calves of dairy cows are generally separated from their mothers within the first 24 hours after birth. The majority of the milk thus enters the food market and not the stomachs of the calves. However,...
View ArticleGenetic markers for fetal overgrowth syndrome discovered
Humans and cattle share a similar epigenetic fetal overgrowth disorder that occurs more commonly following assisted reproduction procedures. In humans, this disorder is called Beckwith-Wiedemann...
View ArticleIt's a happy Mother's Day for endangered right whales
For marine biologists at the New England Aquarium, it's a super-sized Mother's Day.
View ArticleCaribou may be indirectly affected by sea-ice loss in the Arctic
Melting sea ice in the Arctic may be leading, indirectly, to fewer caribou calf births and higher calf mortality in Greenland, according to scientists at Penn State University. Eric Post, a Penn State...
View ArticleClimate change and the physics of falling icebergs
For thousands of years, the massive glaciers of Earth's polar regions have remained relatively stable, the ice locked into mountainous shapes that ebbed in warmer months but gained back their bulk in...
View ArticleWhy glaciers that flow into the ocean are extremely sensitive to climate
In a new paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience researchers present a new view of iceberg calving that explains the sudden collapse of ice shelves and sudden retreat of tidewater glaciers,...
View ArticleAlaska glaciers make large contributions to global sea level rise
Alaska's melting glaciers are adding enough water to the Earth's oceans to cover the state of Alaska with a 1-foot thick layer of water every seven years, a new study shows.
View ArticlePlay linked to sluggish growth in infant monkeys – but should humans worry?
For more than a century, researchers have tried to pin down exactly why so many animal species play in their infancy. Now a new study in wild macaque monkeys has found that infants who play more...
View ArticleSouthern right whale calf wounding by Kelp Gulls increased to nearly all over...
Wounding of southern right whale calves and mothers by Kelp Gulls has increased from 2% to 99% over four decades, according to a study published Oct. 21, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by...
View ArticleStroking helps calves develop a better relationship with humans and increases...
Gentle interactions improve the relationship between humans and animals. In a recent study published in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, researchers at the Vetmeduni Vienna show that...
View ArticleResearch focuses on reducing heat stress for calves in plastic hutches
A recent series of studies found reflective covers to be beneficial for dairy calves housed in calf hutches.
View ArticleHow dolphins listen to their mothers
As far as a healthy parent/child relationship goes recognising each other is pretty important, despite whether the individuals are in the human or animal kingdom. Recently, UWA Oceans Institute...
View ArticleComputer model shows breakup of iceberg logjams
Projections of how much the melting of ice sheets will contribute to sea-level rise can vary by several meters based on the rate of iceberg calving at the edges of those ice sheets. To provide climate...
View ArticleBiologist: Orca attacks on gray whales up in California bay
Killer whales are on an unprecedented killing spree in California's Monterey Bay, attacking and feeding on gray whale calves, a marine biologist said.
View ArticleSentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg
Over the last few months, a chunk of Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf has been hanging on precariously as a deep crack cut across the ice. Witnessed by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, a lump of ice...
View ArticleResearchers discover new cattle disease and prevent it from spreading
Following genetic studies of deformed calves research conducted at the University of Copenhagen is able to uncover a hitherto unknown disease found among Holstein cattle. The breeding bull from which...
View ArticleRecord number of whales counted in Argentina's Patagonia
Conservation groups say a record number of Southern right whales were counted this year in Argentina's Patagonia region.
View ArticleVermont's moose population struggles despite hunting cutback
Scientists say they fear shifting climate conditions are to blame for Vermont's struggling moose population.
View ArticleStudy investigates impact of lions living alongside giraffe populations
It is commonly accepted that lions are the only predators to pose a risk to giraffes on an individual basis but there has never been a study to investigate how the presence of lions impacts on the...
View ArticleDairy calves are natural optimists or pessimists, just like us
Some calves are inherently optimistic or pessimistic, just as humans are, a new University of British Columbia study has found.
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