News articles tagged with 'dog' (Page 7)
NC State first university in nation to offer canine bone marrow transplants
— 4 Sep 2008 20:40 | BiologyDogs suffering from lymphoma will be able to receive the same type of medical treatment as their human counterparts, as North Carolina State University becomes the first university…
Vaccine offers hope for endangered ferrets in plague outbreak
— 18 Jul 2008 14:26 | BiologyEndangered black-footed ferrets, like children, aren't exactly lining up to be stuck with a vaccine, but in an effort to help control an extensive outbreak of plague in South Dakota,…
Sniffing dogs help monitor and protect threatened animals in Brazil
— 12 May 2008 16:28 | EnvironmentIt's a tough job, but somebody, or at least some dogs, have to do it. In the Cerrado region of Brazil, four dogs trained to detect animal faeces by scent are helping researchers monitor…
Texas A and M testing oral contraceptives for animals
— 20 Feb 2008 12:27 | BiologyIf you're a land owner and animals such as coyotes or wild pigs are driving you hog wild, help may soon be on the way to control their numbers in a humane way - in the form of a birth…
Computer programs can classify dog barks better than humans
— 17 Jan 2008 04:44 | BiologyThe aim of Molnar and colleagues' experiments was to test a computer algorithm's ability to identify and differentiate the acoustic features of dog barks, and classify them according…
Scat sniffing dogs detecting rare California carnivores
— 12 Dec 2007 00:23 | BiologyScientists at the U.S. Forest Service Redwood Sciences Lab and University of Vermont found scat sniffing dogs might be the best way to confirm the presence of rare carnivores in forested…