Cats News
May 9, 2024
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Apr. 29, 2024 How did North America's saber-toothed cats hunt without breaking their unwieldy saber-like canines, which are vulnerable to sideways bending stresses? A paleontologist provides mechanical evidence that during adolescence, when young cats were ...
Apr. 17, 2024 Researchers who captured footage of dog attacks on endangered mountain tapirs in Colombia are calling for action to protect threatened ...
Apr. 1, 2024 A broader past could mean a brighter future for Canada lynx in the U.S., according to recent research. The study indicates that lynx might do well in the future in parts of Utah, central Idaho and the Yellowstone National Park region, even ...
Feb. 15, 2024 Biologists present compelling evidence that exotic cats possess the remarkable ability to discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human ...
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Jan. 11, 2024 Researchers have developed an alternative labeling method called 'bio-tagging', which is a microneedle array system that can safely deliver ink in the form of unique number or letter sequences for ...
Dec. 22, 2023 Study findings raise the stakes for public health efforts to improve attitudes about vaccination rates across the ...
Nov. 27, 2023 Scientists describe how they identified a molecule that may trigger over-consumption of comfort foods after a threatening ...
Nov. 16, 2023 Many mammals, from domestic cats and dogs to giant pandas, use scent to communicate with each other. A new study shows how domestic cats send signals to each other using odors derived from families ...
Nov. 6, 2023 Artificial light pollution at night threatens mountain lion habitat, making it a factor to consider for wildlife crossings and land use, finds a new ...
Nov. 7, 2023 A new study of 601 older adults found that those with higher serointensity -- or a higher concentration of antibiodies -- to the cat-borne parasite ...
Nov. 2, 2023 By comparing genomes of several cat species, the project has helped researchers understand why cat genomes tend to have fewer complex genetic variations (such as rearrangements of DNA segments) than ...
Nov. 1, 2023 Cat owners want Kitty to be happy, but providing an abundance of food and snacks can have unintended consequences. Feline obesity is on the rise, impacting the health, longevity, and wellbeing of ...
Oct. 30, 2023 Cat hair could be the purr-fect way to catch criminals, according to ...
Oct. 18, 2023 The symbiotic communities of invertebrates in dead coral gravel on the shallow, warm-temperate coast of the Kii Peninsula in western Japan. New ...
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Oct. 5, 2023 Researchers have identified a 'guard mechanism' for a protein which attacks microbes in infected cells, opening the possibility of new treatments for Toxoplasma, Chlamydia, Tuberculosis and ...
Oct. 5, 2023 Mammals living in South Africa's Greater Kruger National Park, home to one of the world's largest remaining lion populations, are far more afraid of hearing human voices than lion ...
Oct. 4, 2023 A new analysis estimates a variety of potential benefits for environmental sustainability -- for instance, reduced freshwater consumption and greenhouse gas emissions -- that could result from ...
Oct. 4, 2023 A recent investigation delivers novel insights into how cats produce their purring sounds. A special 'pad' embedded in the vocal folds might explain how cats can produce these low-frequency ...
Sep. 20, 2023 Living on a golf course dramatically changes alligator feeding ...
Sep. 11, 2023 New results reveal that many of Africa's remaining lions live within small, fragmented populations at risk of disappearing. The researchers developed a new framework which integrates ecological ...
Aug. 21, 2023 When a sabertooth tiger called out, what noise did it make -- a mighty roar or a throaty purr? A new study examined the data behind the arguments for each vocalization and found that the answer was ...
Aug. 18, 2023 Radiocarbon dating on bones in the La Brea Tar Pits lead archaeologists to warn that history may be repeating ...
Aug. 8, 2023 Current efforts to protect and restore native biodiversity is being threatened by difficulties in identifying wild and domestic cats, and categorization is likely to remain fraught for the ...
July 31, 2023 Researchers looked at the effects of declawing on larger cat species and found that declawing disproportionately impacts their muscular capabilities as compared to their smaller ...
July 24, 2023 Enzymes play a key role in cellular metabolic processes. To enable the quantitative assessment of these processes, researchers need to know the so-called 'turnover number' (for short: kcat) ...
July 20, 2023 Sabertooth cats make up a diverse group of long-toothed predators that roamed Africa around 6-7 million years ago, around the time that hominins -- the group that includes modern humans -- began to ...
July 18, 2023 Researchers applied genetic and isotopic analyses to jaguar scat to investigate the habitat needs of the big cats in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Preserve of Belize in Central America. The study ...
July 12, 2023 Ice Age saber-tooth cats and dire wolves experienced a high incidence of bone disease in their joints, according to new ...
July 12, 2023 A new mathematical model of UK cat populations suggests that neutering of cats that belong to people not only affects the population dynamics of owned cats, but also affects feral, stray, and shelter ...
June 29, 2023 Scientists have found the secret to felines' finesse at sniffing out food, friends and foes. A complex collection of tightly coiled bony airway structures gets the credit, according to the first ...
June 6, 2023 Researchers have demonstrated that a single dose of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) gene therapy can induce long-term contraception in the domestic cat, potentially providing a safe and effective ...
Apr. 20, 2023 In autumn 2022 and winter 2023, a total of 20 cheetahs from Namibia and South Africa were introduced to Kuno National Park in India to establish a free-ranging population -- for the first time since ...
Apr. 20, 2023 A new study found that signs of common infections in a sample of middle-aged and older adults were associated with poorer performance on a test of global cognitive ...
Mar. 30, 2023 In an analysis of over 65,000 infants from Japan, children exposed to pet cats or indoor dogs during fetal development or early infancy tended to have fewer food allergies compared to other ...
Thursday, October 5, 2023
- New Discovery May 'unlock' The Future of Infectious Disease and Cancer Treatment
- Fear of Humans Pervades the South African Savanna
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
- Adoption of Vegan Dog and Cat Diets Could Have Environmental Benefits
- Cats Purr Differently Than Previously Thought
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- Ice Age Saber-Tooth Cats and Dire Wolves Suffered from Diseased Joints
- Neutering Practices for Owned UK Cats Significantly Influence Feral, Stray Populations
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- Cheetahs Need More Space: Reintroduction in India Must Consider Their Spatial Ecology
- Common Infections Linked to Poorer Cognitive Performance in Middle-Aged and Older Adults
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- Canine Distemper Now Threatens Big Cats in Nepal
- New Study Identifies Key Success Factors for Large Carnivore Rewilding Efforts
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- Parasite May Create Risk-Taking Wolves in Yellowstone
- Feline Genetics Help Pinpoint First-Ever Domestication of Cats
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- A Small Crustacean Acts as the Sea's Bees
- Flies, Roaches Not Likely to Spread COVID-19, Study Shows
- Burro-Ing Into the Past
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- Toxoplasmosis: Propagation of Parasite in Host Cell Stopped
- Scientists Discover New Tools to Fight Potentially Deadly Protozoa That Has Pregnant Women Avoiding Cat Litter Boxes
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- Older Japanese Dog Owners May Face Lower Risk of Disability Than Non-Dog Owners, Study Finds
- Smelly Ocelot Habitats May Scare Off Seed-Dispersing Rodents