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• Dogs
  Gene Therapy
  Veterinary Medicine
  Staying Healthy
  Personalized Medicine
  Wounds and Healing
   

  Therapy dog

  Therapy Dog refers to a dog trained to provide affection and comfort to people in hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes, mental institutions, schools, and stressful situations such as disaster ... > more
• Mammals
  Mating and Breeding
  New Species
  Wild Animals
  Animals
  Zoology
   
  

  Platypus

  The Platypus is a 30–60 cm long, semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia and Tasmania, and one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of ... > more
• Organic
  Soil Types
  Botany
  Agriculture and Food
  Endangered Plants
  Sustainability
   

  Organic lawn management

  Organic lawn management is the practice of establishing and caring for a garden lawn without the use of chemical inputs such as pesticides or artificial fertilisers. The garden lawn is a place where ... > more
• Nervous System
  Neuroscience
  Perception
  Psychology Research
  Healthy Aging
  Developmental Biology
   

  Olfaction

  Olfaction, the sense of odor (smell), is the detection of chemicals dissolved in air (or in water, by animals that live under water). In vertebrates smells are sensed by the olfactory epithelium ... > more
• Frogs and Reptiles
  Zoology
  Animals
  Early Mammals
  New Species
  Endangered Animals
   
  

  Reptile

  Reptiles (also called 'herps') are tetrapods and amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane. Reptiles were defined as the set of animals that includes crocodiles, ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  Extinction
  Geography
  Nature
  Environmental Policy
  Marine Biology
   

  Cretaceous

  The Cretaceous period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic period, about 146 million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch ... > more
• Insects (including Butterflies)
  Pests and Parasites
  Animals
  Agriculture and Food
  Wild Animals
  Nature
   
  

  Hematophagy

  Hematophagy (sometimes spelled haematophagy) is the habit of certain animals of feeding on ... > more
• Evolutionary Biology
  Mating and Breeding
  Nature
  Animals
  Agriculture and Food
  Endangered Animals
   
  

  Hybrid

  In biology, hybrid has two meanings. The first meaning is the result of interbreeding between two animals or plants of different taxa. Hybrids between different species within the same genus are ... > more
• Dogs
  Animals
  Veterinary Medicine
  Microarrays
  Zoology
  Wild Animals
   

  Microchip implant (animal)

  A microchip is an identifying integrated circuit placed under the skin of a dog, cat, or other animal. The chips are about the size of a large grain of rice and are based on a passive RFID ... > more
• Spiders and Ticks
  Molecular Biology
  Human Biology
  Cell Biology
  Genetics
  Skin Care
   
  

  Keratin

  Keratins are a family of fibrous structural proteins; tough and insoluble, they form the hard but nonmineralized structures found in reptiles, birds and ... > more

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