Sentences with phrase «wild animals testing»

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NEW DELHI — Armed with a government order and escorted by police, animal activists yesterday seized and released into the wild 50 rhesus monkeys being used for testing a new drug.

Thus far, no genetically modified animals have thrived in the wild — unlike some of the GMO plants that have spread beyond test plots.

The paper is «a big step forward» because running such tests in the wild «is exceptionally challenging,» says Alex Thornton, an animal cognition researcher at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

By testing in the lab the effect of water type, contaminants, or the presence of different species of animals and bacteria, they may be able to translate these findings to the wild, and explain why juvenile pillar corals are missing in certain areas, helping to support local coastal protection.

Sea lions may even prove useful for testing to treat or prevent epilepsy, he says: «I'm impressed by how the investigators contended successfully with the limitations and constraints of experimenting with wild animals.»

It would not be ethical to intentionally create stressful situations for the animals as a test, she notes — which is why, until now, researchers have had to rely on well - documented but anecdotal observations of wild and captive elephants to back up claims that they reassure each other.

They favor banning imports of wild - caught amphibians but allowing the sale of animals bred in captivity, even if they come from Asia, as long as they are quarantined and tested.

In fact, the anemones showed more consistency than most other animals tested for personality in the wild.

Due to lingering radiation from the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, humans aren't allowed to live there — but the region has become an accidental ecological testing ground for scientists interested in studying the effects of radiation on wild animals.

But Oostvaardersplassen, some 25 years in the making, stands as a test case of what the wild animals that once roamed Europe might create when left to their own devices.

The values show mild statistically significant difference in number of progeny laid by mutant worms CK123 compared to wild type N2 animals during the day 3 (Two Tailed T Test, p = 0.04962).

The purpose of the study that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences was to test samples of isotopes and conclude whether the animals were domesticated or were fed in the wild.

To test this hypothesis, wild - type and mutant animals were weighed at time points from larval through adult stages.

The trapped animals then were killed and sent to an Orlando Health and Rehabilitative Services lab for analysis to see if they harbored rabies.But Dr. George Gant, head of the Osceola Health Department, said so many wild animals carry rabies that there's nothing to be learned from trapping and testing animals.

Projects that include the elimination of animals in research / testing, humane education, animal protection for wild and large animals, shelter efficiency and solutions to the animal over-population are all able to apply for the grant.

Animal control officers and health officials also will trap wild animals and test brain tissue for rabies.

In the rural regions of Southern China where SARS broke out, the people and animals lived in inordinately close contact and there was widespread use of wild species for food and traditional medicine, along with little testing available to catch new strains of diseases, the conditions there promoted the emergence of the virus.