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New treatment could increase number of lung donors
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Lund [Sweden], September 2 (ANI): Donated lungs in vast quantities cannot be transplanted. Researchers at Skane University Hospital and Lund University in Sweden completed an animal study that raises the possibility of using more donor lungs in the future. To determine whether the treatment
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Animal study finds testosterone encourages not only violence but also 'cud
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Georgia [US], August 20 (ANI): According to the findings of a recent animal study, testosterone levels can also help in encouraging males to be sociable and friendlier.
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Testosterone encourages 'cuddling' not only violence; animal study finds
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Georgia [US], August 15 (ANI): According to a recent animal study, testosterone can encourage males to be sociable and friendlier. The results of neuroscientists at Emory University's study on Mongolian gerbils were published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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Study reveals how young giraffes escape from its predators
Updated : 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): According to a study, the young giraffe or foal needs to develop its ability to move quickly on its legs in order to avoid predators. Animals' spinal cords contain networks for coordinating their muscles after birth. It takes some time to become proficient in
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Here's how combination of muscle and skin plays important role in elephant
Updated : 6 months, 1 week ago IST
Atlanta (Georgia) [US], July 25 (ANI): According to a recent study from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an elephant's folded skin plays a significant part in stretching its trunk in addition to its muscles. The creature can easily grab fragile vegetation and break apart tree trunks tha
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Study: Burrowing animals to recover after largest mass extinction
Updated : 6 months, 1 week ago IST
Bristol [UK], July 19 (ANI): Burrowing animals were among the first to recover after the end-Permian mass extinction, according to researchers investigating ancient sea bed traces and burrows.
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Do you know wild bats can remember sounds for years? Study reveals
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], July 17 (ANI): When we learn a skill, like riding a bike or looking both ways before crossing the street, we rarely need to learn it again. The majority of research on learning and long-term memory in wild animals focuses on a handful number of species.
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Researchers study sleep pattern of wolves to understand domestication of a
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], July 16 (ANI): To gain a better understanding of the effects of domestication and cohabitation with humans on sleep phenotypes and physiology, comparing the dog to its wild counterpart, the wolf, offers a unique opportunity.
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Do you know wolves sleep like dogs? Researcher reveals
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], July 12 (ANI): According to a recent study, a group of researchers discovered the sleep of the dog's wild counterpart, the wolf for the first time.
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Scientists find the factors influencing behaviour of whale shark
Updated : 6 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], July 2 (ANI): A new research led by scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life and the University of Panama revealed that the globe-trotter is the largest fish in the ocean that can be found basking in the coastal wa
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Stress-triggered sleep might help mice to cope with later anxiety: Researc
Updated : 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 1 (ANI): Stress boosts a kind of sleep in mice that subsequently relieves anxiety, according to new research that also pinpoints the mechanism responsible for this.
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Do you know what your dogs think of toys? Scientists are here with the new
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Budapest [Hungary], June 13 (ANI): Researchers from the Family Dog Project (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest) found out in a recent study that dogs have a "multi-modal mental image" of their familiar objects. This means that when thinking about an object, dogs imagine the object's differen
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