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Hunt on for Corbett's wounded tigress
Source:NDTV
NWHS NOTE: On January 1, 2011 - Issue 68, we reported on a tigress in India that had killed 3 humans and was ordered to be shot. (Click To View The NWHS Jan.1 Newsletter 68). Since then, the tigress killed another human on Monday Jan. 10, 2011. On Tuesday, 8 rounds were fired at her, in the Corbett Tiger Reserve, only wounding her. They are now tracking the wounded tigress in order to complete the kill. It was the hope of NWHS that this tiger could have been tranquilized and moved to another area, but the local villagers are insistent that this tiger be killed. NWHS is now updating our readers on the current developments concerning this conflict tiger.
The Story Continues: JIM CORBETT TIGER RESERVE: At the Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve, a hunt is on for a wounded tigress that has killed four women since November. What's worse, the maneater was shot on Tuesday but couldn't be tracked down since then. A search is on for the man-eating tigress. "We have built special machans and cages to trap it, we are trying to get the situation under control," said Rajesh Gopal, Member - National Tiger Conservation Authority, who is at the site to take stock of the situation. The inability of the Forest Department to nab the tigress has incensed the villagers making the wildlife in this area vulnerable to man-animal conflict. The adult tigress in question had proved to be a menace for all villagers from Dhikuli area adjoining the park. The four women who died were also from the same village and had entered the forest to collect fodder. "We need some time to identify the tigress, we don't want to make any mistakes," said Shrikant Chandola, the Chief Wildlife Warden of Uttarakhand... Click To View The Full Article - Includes Video |
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Baboons Discover New Citrus Cultivar
Source:allAfrica
A troop of baboons has inadvertently discovered a new citrus cultivar for a farmer in the Western Cape. Alwyn van der Merwe, production director of ALG Estates near Citrusdal 200km north of Cape Town, said on Wednesday the new fruit has proved to be not only to be sweeter than normal oranges, but will also lengthen the season by at least three weeks. "Year after year the farm has have been struck by a troop of baboons which descended from the mountains," van der Merwe said.
"The troop always selected one tree amongst thousands of trees in one of our orchards and devoured all the fruit before our season really got going. At closer inspection we discovered that the brix (sweetness grade) of this particular minneola, a soft citrus variety, was much higher than the rest of the orchard and that it started bearing fruit at least three weeks earlier than expected," The farmers then set about grafting some shoots of this tree onto standard root stock and passed it on the Citrus Growers Association (CGA) at Uitenhage where the trees are now being multiplied in greenhouse tunnels.. Click Here To Read Article In Full |
Japanese team confident of cloning a mammoth
Source:TG Daily BY:Kate Taylor
A Japanese team is planning to try to bring mammoths back to life after establising a way to extract DNA from their frozen cells. The Kyoto University team is off to Siberia this summer in search of frozen mammoth tissue. If the expedition is unsuccessful, though, the team believes that suitable cells may be obtained from a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory. "Preparations to realize this goal have been made," team leader Akira Iritani, leader of the team and a professor emeritus of Kyoto University, told AP.
Previous attempts to clone the mammoth have failed because nuclei in the cells were too badly damaged by ice crystals. But in 2008, Japanese scientists succeeded in cloning a mouse from cells which had been frozen for 16 years, raising hopes for the resurrection of the mammoth. If nuclei can be successfully extracted, they'll be inserted into egg cells from an African elephant from which the nuclei have already been removed. The aim is to create an embryo which can then be implanted into an elephant's womb. A baby mammoth, the first to walk the planet in 5,000 years, could be the result in as little as four years. "If a cloned embryo can be created, we need to discuss, before transplanting it into the womb, how to breed [the mammoth] and whether to display it to the public," says Iritani. "After the mammoth is born, we'll examine its ecology and genes to study why the species became extinct and other factors"... Click To View The Source Article |
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