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There's quite a long way to go till we will have robotic wives and husbands around the house; so, for the moment, it seems that our dogs in the near future might just be … made of metal (or plastic). If not around the house, at least in the conflict areas. The four-legged dog robots are now the size of a Chihuah... |
27 September 2007
06:36 GMT |
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Dogs In Danger is a nonprofit organization which recently created a website in order to allow the dog lovers to adopt an animal with ease and save their lives faster than before. The page comes with a handy search function that contains the dog's breed, the zip code of the cities as well as a search radius which... |
27 September 2007
06:15 GMT |
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1. Despite their name, prairie dogs are related to the ...squirrels! But unlike the squirrels, they have very short tails and spend most of their life underground. Their name suggests a resemblance between their calls and a dog's bark... There are 5 species of prairie dogs included in the genus Cynomys: Gunnison... |
13 September 2007
15:06 GMT |
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It looks like there's a new market for handset producers to cover. Children are long equipped with the latest mobile technology, but it looks like pets have been neglected at this chapter. It sounds a bit unfair, especially for those who treat their pets just like humans, so PetsMobility has brought the PetCell ... |
12 September 2007
06:54 GMT |
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The post-war child booming Japanese generation is gone and now, to the increasing age of the Japanese population, another worrying factor is added: pet dogs replace children, in a country where natality is already plummeting. While shopping, the 46-year-old Japanese eye surgeon Toshiko Horikoshi can be seen pushing a... |
6 September 2007
06:40 GMT |
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In Scotland they have Nessie, in northern US Big Foot is to be found, in Himalaya you could meet Yeti, while the Latin Americans have the Chupacabra (the Spanish for "Goatsucker"), a type of mythical vampire creature that sucks the blood of the goats and the chickens and a scare-child. This is what Phylis Canion, a h... |
3 September 2007
15:06 GMT |
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You may have read about animals and humans with two heads or more than four legs. But all these occurrences were determined by developmental impairments, and if those individuals survived, they usually were either sterile or had normal offspring. But what about when such an oddity is genetic? And can be transmitted f... |
13 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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There are pooches whose food is much more expensive than yours and they also get more love and caring. So why not using the most expensive technologies for fixing them?This is a first: a pet dog has been successfully fitted with an artificial paw. Storm, a Belgian Shepherd, had his paw partially amputated after being... |
21 July 2007
04:59 GMT |
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The old tools and techniques are increasingly replaced by modern technology. Many will be known only through data gathered by anthropologists. 50 years ago, Japanese people in the islands of Tanegashima employed canoes made of trunks of giant pines for fishing. The crafting of the canoes was made during special cerem... |
19 July 2007
14:21 GMT |
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She may not go to the gym, but she has much more muscles than a long-trained body builder. In the end, whippets should be only lean muscle….well, not that much, anyway. Wendy's look differs a lot from the usual long, lean and sleek look of her counterparts. This female dog was born with a genetic impairment whic... |
16 July 2007
14:26 GMT |
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A connection between vampires, werewolves and full moon has not been established yet. Still, British police has found one between full moon and small dirty businesses (like petty thefts) or violent crimes. A new study has found that dogs and cats too are more exposed to injuries and illnesses during full moon than du... |
16 July 2007
04:22 GMT |
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China's economy is just speeding and now the country is the world's largest exporter of fur garments; but for these 12 years of rapid progress, a great price is paid by the fur-bearing animals. There are no laws regulating the confinement and slaughter of the raccoon dogs, foxes, minks, rabbits, and even do... |
13 July 2007
14:36 GMT |
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There is no doubt that Chihuahua dogs, originating in the north of Mexico, are the world's smallest dog breed. The question is: which Chihuahua can be crowned as the world's smallest dog?Dancer, a rust-colored Chihuahua, measured 5 inches (12.5 cm) in height at his first birthday. That makes him smaller th... |
9 July 2007
14:26 GMT |
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A new breed of dogs could someday be sent to Mars to explore the surface, although they are now just barely learning to walk, climb rocks and jump. These robotic dogs are funny-looking robots, but could become more versatile than current rovers.Robotic probes are used in space exploration for some time now, like the... |
9 July 2007
04:17 GMT |
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A little dog can be fluffy, cute and adorable. But this is not the case with the creatures exposed at the World's Ugliest Dog competition in LA.And the winner was crowned Elwood, a 2-year-old Chinese Crested and Chihuahua mix, which received the title of the world's ugliest dog on Friday, to the delight of ... |
25 June 2007
14:26 GMT |
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Many dog breeds are no longer what they used to be: Poodle's origin is linked to a breed of dogs for slough hunt, while the Dalmatian race has its origin in an ancient breed of beagle. A classification of the hunting dogs proves to be difficult.The Hungarian Vizsla is seen as a sighthound, perhaps due to one of ... |
14 June 2007
11:02 GMT |
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Cockroaches are really persistent, and so hardy that researchers found they were the only organisms that can survive in an area after atomic experiments. Now, Japanese researchers were amazed with a new finding on these disgusting insects: they have a memory enabling them to form Pavlovian reflexes. They taught cockr... |
14 June 2007
09:06 GMT |
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Within the species, individuals can fight one against the other for different reasons, from food or shelter to social hierarchy or mating rights inside a group. In the case of a conflict between different species, the fight is determined by the antagonism between those species, like competition in the case of hyenas ... |
26 May 2007
06:53 GMT |
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The dog is the first domesticated animal, from the time when people were just hunters-gatherers and long before the emergence of agriculture, about 18,000 years ago. It is regarded as the most devoted animal to man. The largest dogs belong to the Swiss breed Saint Bernard. The largest individual was Duke, which belon... |
19 May 2007
07:15 GMT |
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In most mammals' case, the nose is the primary organ for smelling. As the animal sniffs, the air flows through the nose and over structures called turbinates in the nasal cavity. The turbulence caused by this disruption slows the air and directs it toward the olfactory epithelium. At the surface of the olfactor... |
23 April 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Here's what might happen when your dog tries to show you how affectionate he is about you. You're hanging out in the living room and Jimmy comes to you, humps your leg or hand, and starts doing the copulating "loco"-motion like there's no tomorrow. I know you took the poor horny being to the dog thera... |
21 April 2007
06:00 GMT |
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What's the similarity between a whale, a worm and a Xoloitzcuintle?They have no hair...The body of this black dog breed is almost completely devoid of hair. Only the tip of the tail displays a white tuft of hair. This dog looks like a Pharaoh Hound, with a sleek body, almond-shaped eyes, large bat-like ears, and... |
10 April 2007
10:20 GMT |
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3,235 dead. 24,187 wounded in action, of which 10,772 were unable to return to duty within 72 hours. 6,835 non-hostile injuries and 18,704 diseases (both requiring medical air transport).As of 24 March, 2007, this is the number of casualties in the ranks of the U.S. Armed forces in Iraq since the beginning of the wa... |
30 March 2007
10:16 GMT |
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