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Researchers in Hungary are using drones to track the movements of an almost 300-member herd of endangered horses. The Przewalski's horses live on remote plains, far away from human interference. These wild horses were once extinct in the wild, but thanks to captive breeding programmes there are around 2,000 Przewalski's horses roaming free again. Przewalski's horses have harems within their herdsA herd numbering 278 horses lives in Hortobágy National Park in Hungary. They may one day be released into the wild. Researchers from Eötvös Loránd University and the University of Debrecen are taking ...
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Is there anything more terrifying than a creature weighing 3,600 kilogrammes flying towards you through the air? Perhaps not - and it is a reality. Well, sort of. Scientists have discovered that hippopotamuses can become airborne for substantial periods of time - for far longer than others of similar sizes. The new research by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has found that the mammals can stay in the air for up to 0.3 seconds at a time when moving at speed. They’re the second heaviest animal on earth - after elephants - but, unlike those beasts, hippos exclusively trot when moving, meaning ...
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To save the imperilled spotted owl from potential extinction, US wildlife officials are set to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their cousins. The contentious plan will see trained shooters deployed into dense West Coast forests. The US Fish and Wildlife Service strategy released on Wednesday is meant to prop up declining spotted owl populations in Oregon, Washington state and California. Documents released by the agency show up to about 450,000 barred owls would be shot over three decades after the birds from the eastern US encroached into the West Coast territory ...
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Over 45,000 species are now threatened with extinction - 1,000 more than last year - according to an international conservation organisation. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released its latest Red List of Threatened Species on Thursday. It blames pressures from climate change, invasive species and human activity such as illicit trade and infrastructural expansion for sending more species to the brink of existence. Now in its 60th year, the list sounds the alarm about animals and plants at risk of extinction, but it also highlights conservation success stories such as...
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For the first time in at least 200 years, wild Przewalski's horses have returned to Kazakhstan’s Golden Steppe. These are the last truly wild horses left on Earth whose habitats were wiped out by farming and other human activity. Now, Prague Zoo has restored them to their original home in the plains of Central Asia. What happened to Central Asia's Przewalski's horses?In early June, a Czech Army CASA aircraft landed in central Kazakhstan with four of these endangered animals on board. Tessa, Wespe, Umbra and Sary took an 18 hour flight from Berlin and a seven-hour truck ride to reach their new ...
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Paris (AFP) - For species classified as "extinct in the wild", the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery, new research has shown. Re-wilding what are often single-digit populations faces the same challenges that pushed these species to the cusp of extinction in the first place, including a lack of genetic diversity. But without conservation efforts, experts say, chances of these species surviving would be even smaller. Since 1950, nearly 100 animal and plant species vanquished from nature by hunting, pollution...
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Washington (AFP) - Ever since the movie Jurassic Park, the idea of bringing extinct animals back to life has captured the public's imagination -- but what might scientists turn their attention towards first? Instead of focusing on iconic species like the woolly mammoth or the Tasmanian tiger, a team of paleogeneticists have studied how, using gene editing, they could resurrect the humble Christmas Island rat, which died out around 120 years ago. Though they did not follow through and create a living specimen, they say their paper, published in Current Biology on Wednesday, demonstrates just ho...
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