News articles tagged with 'hunter'
Seized notebooks give unique insight into scale of illicit pangolin trade
— 28 Oct 2010 15:24 | EnvironmentStunning figures in traffickers' logbooks indicate massive illegal capture and trade in endangered pangolins or scaly anteaters, finds a new TRAFFIC study…
Man-made global warming started with ancient hunters
— 1 Jul 2010 09:14 | Geology and palaeontologyEven before the dawn of agriculture, people may have caused the planet to warm up, a new study suggests…
'Technology' plays large role in wealth inheritance
— 31 Oct 2009 14:20 | TechnologyA new study reveals the important role inherited wealth plays in sustaining economic inequality in small scale societies. A team of 26 anthropologists, statisticians, and economists…
Early human hunters had fewer meat-sharing rituals
— 14 Aug 2009 12:16 | Geology and palaeontologyA University of Arizona anthropologist has discovered that humans living at a Palaeolithic cave site in central Israel between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago were as successful at big-game…
New tracking approach will help protect polar bears
— 19 Jun 2009 07:16 | EnvironmentA new approach to tracking polar bears, developed by Queen's University researchers, will shed more light on the potentially endangered Arctic animal and help boost the economy of Canada's…
Study finds that hunters are depleting lion and cougar populations
— 18 Jun 2009 13:13 | BiologySport hunters are depleting lion and cougar populations as managers respond to demands to control predators that threaten livestock and humans, according to a study published in the…
Wild chimpanzees exchange meat for sex
— 8 Apr 2009 12:13 | BiologyWild female chimpanzees copulate more frequently with males who share meat with them over long periods of time, according to a study led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute…
Key 'impact hunters' catalyse hunting among male chimpanzees
— 3 Feb 2008 08:53 | BiologyWhile hunting among chimpanzees is a group effort, key males, known as 'impact hunters' are highly influential within the group. They are more likely to initiate a hunt, and hunts rarely…
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