Topic: Mammals
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15 hidden meanings of popular food phrases
Discover the hidden meanings of some of your favorite food phrases.
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A feast of 18 foodie films
Food plays an important role in bringing family and loved ones together, be it for the holidays or just a regularly scheduled meal. So why not enjoy family togetherness with entertainment starring your favorite Pixar rat or eccentric cook? The reviews on the following list have largely been pulled from Monitor archives.
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'Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye': 5 stories from a family's time near the Arctic
Zac Unger temporarily moved his family to Churchill, Manitoba, to experience life in the polar bear wild. Here are some of his stories from his book "Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye."
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Super Bowl commercials 2013: The 4 best sneak previews
For Super Bowl commercials, many companies are providing sneak peeks for their ads that will run during the big game. Here are some of the best.
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4 ways to prevent natural disasters from becoming human tragedies
The catastrophic impact of climate change – especially on the developing world – is not inevitable. Here are four cutting-edge tools to anticipate and minimize the damage from natural disasters.
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Duck-billed dinosaurs 'like walking paper mills'
The plants these dinosaurs fed on were tough and covered with hard, tooth-gouging particles. Hadrosaurids chewed their meals with teeth that possessed flattened grinding surfaces much like those of horses and bison.
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Tiny 'Dracula' dinosaur had bristles and fangs, ate veggies
The 200-million-year-old dinosaur 'was two-legged, probably fleet-footed, and had grasping hands,' said researcher Paul Sereno.
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Dolphin birth captured on video in Hawaii
Dolphin birth video: A female dolphin calf was born at Dolphin Quest Hawaii at the Hilton Waikoloa Village. The survival rate of dolphins born in captivity is higher than dolphin births in the open ocean.
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Bronx zoo tiger attack: Man lives, big cat is forgiven
Survivors of tiger attacks often hold no animosity. As he lay injured from a tiger bite, entertainer Roy Horn whispered, 'Make sure no harm comes to Montecore.' Likewise, the tiger that mauled a man who jumped into his enclosure at the Bronx Zoo will not be euthanized.
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Melting Arctic snow threatens to leave seals out in the cold
Ringed seals are currently under consideration for threatened species listing.
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Gorilla carries toddler: Cute, but … why? (+video)
A gorilla carries a cute blonde toddler in a video gone viral – 22 years after it was taped. The child’s dad is raising money for conservation.
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Stir It Up! Potato and (yellow) cherry tomato salad
How a bumper crop of apartment garden tomatoes survived the squirrels this year.
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Baby panda, born at National Zoo, still hiding
The National Zoo staff can hear the baby panda, but can't see it yet on the panda cam. Can you spot it?
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New, azure-buttocked monkey species discovered in Congo
A surprising discovery in a remote village in the Democratic Republic of Congo adds a new species to the monkey roster.
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Scientists release list of world's 100 most threatened species
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has comp.iled a list of 100 species from 48 countries, which they say will soon disappear if nothing is done to protect them.
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Energy Voices Humans seem to need outside energy
For starters: Without the energy to cook their food, humans would have much more limited food supply and spend half the day eating.
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Open season: Will rebounding Wyoming wolves thrive without US protection?
The US Fish and Wildlife Service dropped federal protections for reintroduced wolves in Wyoming Friday, part of a decades-long plan to bring back the howling of wolves while allowing ‘trophy hunts’ for the apex predator.
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Low-calorie diet may not help you live longer, if you're a monkey
Low-calorie diet: If you're a rhesus monkey, a low-calorie diet may not help you live longer, reports a new study that overturns previous findings.
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Study: Low-calorie diets don't necessarily make you live longer, if you're a monkey
A 25-year study of rhesus macaques overturns previous findings that calorie-restricted diets tend to increase monkey longevity.
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4 ways to prevent natural disasters from becoming human tragedies
The catastrophic impact of climate change – especially on the developing world – is not inevitable. Here are four cutting-edge tools to anticipate and minimize the damage from natural disasters.
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Helium-breathing apes display operatic vocal skills, say researchers (+video)
The gibbon, a lesser ape native to Asia, uses the same vocal techniques as trained sopranos, finds a Japanese experiment involving helium-enriched air.
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Researchers spot apes fashioning advanced tools
A pair of bonobos have a knack for stone drills, shovels, and other tools, suggesting that humanity's last common ancestor with the chimplike animals were also toolmakers.
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Why did Japanese scientists make apes inhale helium? (+video)
Gibbons, a family of small ape native to Asia, are able to adjust their vocal anatomy just like the world's best sopranos, a new study involving a captive gibbon and helium-enriched air.
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3 smart novels for the last weeks of summer
Three male characters head to the desert hoping to change their lives.
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'The Gift of Pets': 4 stories from a vet
Veterinarian Bruce R. Coston shares his stories of his time among the animals.
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Modern Parenthood Unbaby.me: Don’t like Facebook babies? Look out, I’m posting vacation pix
Do babies on your Facebook news feed annoy you? There's an app for that: Unbaby.me won't keep me from posting my vacation baby pix, but you won't have to see them.
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California Fish and Game official removed after killing cougar
The official, who was appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2008, has said he plans to remain on the five-member commission until his term expires in six months.
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Lions in Nairobi? A new suburban problem
On the outskirts of Kenya's capital city, stray lions from Nairobi National Park have begun to prey on domestic herds. Masai herdsmen threaten to take action if the government doesn't.
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Horizons Mountain Lion roars off to record start
Mountain Lion, the latest iteration of the Apple desktop OS, has been downloaded more than a million times, Apple reported today.
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Cover Story New breed of ranchers shapes a sustainable West
These green cowboys try to marry good stewardship of the land with making money.
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