Sentences with phrase «young animal researchers»

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Mar. 12, 2013 — A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young has been cracked by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

I'm sure we could drop some Japanese researchers off in agricultural areas of the US and they would be amazed to see children as young as 5 raising animals to be shown and sold at the fair.

When the young animals were successfully weaned, researchers gave them a series of tests to gauge their fear response, along with their cognitive, memory and social skills.

Young sifakas are more likely to get sick, but if researchers can figure out how older animals manage to fight the infection, they might be able to develop vaccines that provide infants the same protection.

Several years ago researchers measured the older animals» production of new neurons — a process that usually diminishes with age — and found it could be rejuvenated by young blood.

The results may extend to other animals as well, the researchers speculate, and may even explain why some populations of sperm whales have relatively few young.

The researchers then fed the lysozyme - rich milk to young goats and pigs to see if it affected the bacteria population in the animals guts.

The researchers note that this was a study of just one animal, and a young one at that.

Animals that are routinely subject to pursuit are, on average, 20 percent smaller and reproduce at a 25 percent younger age than what would be expected without human influence, the researchers determined.

Researchers found that FTIs not only prevented cardiovascular damage in young mice, but also reversed the disease in older animals treated after the onset of arterial damage.

The cache of more than 200 fossil eggs found with bones of juvenile and adult animals in northwestern China suggests to some researchers that pterosaur parents may have cared for their newly hatched young.

«At the time, the US study showed that rapamycin extends lifespan irrespective of whether the treatment is given to young or aged animals,» says the Bonn - based researcher.

Researchers sliced off some of the eight arms in young moon jellies to see how the animals heal.

In a proof - of - principle study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, the researchers report that defects in the regeneration of the myelin sheaths surrounding nerves, which are lost in diseases such as multiple sclerosis may be at least partially corrected following exposure of an old animal to the circulatory system of a young animal.

More than 70 percent of the classrooms researchers examined in the new study contained science books, magnifying glasses, toy animals, mirrors, magnets, science - related posters, measuring cups and yarn, all found on a list of 53 science materials for young children originally developed by Tu and slightly modified by Gerde and her team.

Thus, when young animals like kittens were play fighting, for example, the researchers believed they were just developing hunting skills.

She was one of eight recipients of a Young Researchers Award, each worth ￡ 10,000, which is part of the 2017 Lush Prize awarded by Lush Cosmetics for innovations in the fight against animal testing.

More recent trips caught footage of a pod of orcas teaching its young how to hunt, which digitally raced around the world of marine mammal scientists, participated in a penguin census, and logged polar bear and whale identification photos for researchers who track global populations of these animals.