Large Dane very high with the feisty little

Chihuahua, all the dogs is brothers under the skin. Now, the researchers discovered a reason for which the animals carrying this skin change so much in the face. The dogs have the greatest variation in the face of body of any ground animal, thus of researchers carried out by Elaine A. Ostrander of the human institute of search for research national of genome decided to examine the reasons why.

They found a section of the genes which orders small size in the dogs and brought back their results in the question of Friday of the Science of newspaper.

By learning how the growth is can ordered to improve arrangement of cancer and other diseases caused by the growth gone of through, Ostrander called in an interview of telephone.

New Species Declared: Clouded Leopard On Borneo And Sumatra

Clouded leopards are the biggest predators on Borneo. Some grow to be as large as a small panther, and have the longest canine teeth relative to body size of any cat. Sumatran tigers are the largest predators on Sumatra.

Between 5,000 and 11,000 clouded leopards are estimated to live on Borneo. The total number in Sumatra could be in the range of 3,000 to 7,000 individuals. However, further studies are needed to obtain better population data. Habitat destruction is the cat's main threat.

The last great forest home of the Bornean Clouded Leopard is the Heart of Borneo, a wild, mountainous region of rainforest the size of Kansas. WWF recently released a report showing that scientists had identified at least 52 new species of animals and plants over the past year on Borneo.

Last month in Bali (Indonesia), the ministers of the three Bornean governments - Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia - signed an historic Declaration to conserve and sustainably manage the Heart of Borneo.

New Species Declared: Clouded Leopard On Borneo And Sumatra

Genetic analysis conducted at the U.S. National Cancer Institute shows that the difference between the two clouded leopard

species is comparable to the differences between other large cat species like lions, tigers, and jaguars. Scientists believe the new species of clouded leopard diverged from the mainland population some 1.4 million years ago.

"Genetic research results clearly indicate that the clouded leopards of Borneo and Sumatra should be considered a separate species," said Dr Stephen O'Brien, Head of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, U.S. National Cancer Institute. "DNA tests highlighted around 40 differences between the two species."

The results of the genetic study are supported by separate research on geographical variation in the clouded leopard, based mainly on fur patterns and coloration of skins held in museums and collections.


Scientists have discovered that the clouded leopard found on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra is an entirely new species of cat. The secretive rainforest animal was originally thought to be the same species as the one found in mainland Southeast Asia.

The new clouded leopard species is generally darker than the mainland species, has small cloud markings, many distinct spots within the cloud markings, grayer fur, and a double dorsal stripe. Clouded leopards from the mainland have large clouds on their skin with fewer, often faint, spots within the cloud markings, and they are lighter in color, with a tendency toward tawny-colored fur and a partial double dorsal stripe.

Animal black market exotic

Hayward said the stolen wind of animals upwards in the trade of pet, the zoos of roadside, or the private collections. Others are employed by multiplying programs.

The money is the reason. Rarest or endangered the species, more is high the price which the animal can seek on the black market.
We look at this type of criminality very similar to the flight of fine arts and antiquities, Hayward known as.

Animal flights of the zoos on rise

In the darkness of the night, the robbers armed with wire-cutters and the camps seize species in the process of disappearance of the zoos and the collections deprived in the whole world.

Last month approximately 50 exotic birds were stolen of a collection deprived in the United Kingdom. In December per pair of estimated parrots of African gray were seized by the zoo of Adelaide of Australia.

And a rare lizard of chuckwalla was taken last year of the zoo of town of Oklahoma in the United States.

John Hayward, a former leader of police force which runs the national flight of Great Britain Record-a the data base of the flights animal-known as stolen of exotic and species in the process of disappearance are on rise.

Of 60 zoos of England, it added, 5 were aimed at last year by a criminal troop which took approximately 200 animals, more of which were the exotic birds, the small primacies, and the rare reptiles.

The bees of the assassin infest the area of Katrina-Ravaged

The residents of the flood-damaged parish of the St. Bernard, still that recovers of the Katrina hurricane, have a new preoccupation: bees of the assassin. The agriculturists began to fix traps around a radius of the half-mile of storm-ruined homemade Monday that the authorities have confirmed were infested with the aggressive bees of Africanized. The hybrids first lead the absent contractors used to tear the house down. Then they eliminated called beekeepers inside to take them. The bees of the assassin infest the area of Katrina-Ravaged associate Press 9 Ene of 2006 - the residents of the flood-damaged parish of the St. Bernard, still that recovers of the Katrina hurricane, have a new preoccupation: bees of the assassin.

The agriculturists began to fix traps around a radius of the half-mile of storm-ruined homemade Monday that the authorities have confirmed were infested with the aggressive bees of Africanized. The hybrids first lead the absent contractors used to tear the house down. Then they eliminated called beekeepers inside to take them. Finally the workers of the mosquito killed the bees. The department of the agriculture of the state confirmed in last commission Bob Odom of December which they were hybrid with the aggressive tension African, of agriculture and forestry said. The traps are to determine if more bees of Africanized are being on the lookout in the area. ?Until now, this is an isolated finding in the area of New Orleans,? Odom this. The bees were probably descending of stowaways that they arrived in New Orleans in a ship, said the small bar Dunkley, the coordinator of the department of the quarter of children and the programs of apiary. Nine clusters have been intercepted in the ports of the state from 1988, some in shipment packages, some in boats to tow, and some in the ships they themselves, Dunkley this. The bees of Africanized are the turn out of an experiment to increase the production of the honey in Brazil. A cluster of the small, aggressive bees saved the laboratory in 1957 and directed to the north. When they were reconciled with native tensions, the descendant turned out to be as aggressive as the African parents. Sometimes they call the ?bees to you of the assassin? because their intense attacks can be fatal.