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Entries from October 26th, 2010

Ants Save Trees From African Elephants.

October 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Biology

It has been discovered that African Elephants are destroying trees in the savannas.  Surprisingly tests have found that the trees are being protected by a species much smaller than elephants.  Swarms of ants group together to keep the elephants from eating the trees.  Ants crawl up into the elephants trunks to keep them away from [...]

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Bees

October 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Biology, Chemistry

In spring to summer have you seen bees near by flowers? Probably they were trying to attack you. So you might not have free time to watch flowers. But today this article talked about how bees are getting old. A bee is very well trained as a forget after three to four days flight time. Amdam says whereas mature [...]

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Where does beef come from?

October 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Biology, Chemistry

A lot of people eat beef. This beefs is naturally produced without hormones or antibiotics, through traditional systems. Through this research that naturally raised steers can be produced  in confinement and with a pasture finishing system.  But Faulkner said both may be able to use a traditional confinement system. Because there organic beef standard are so [...]

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Mouse Brains

October 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Biology, Chemistry

Many people do not like mice because they say they are creepy or something bad about of it. But when I saw news on the television, scientists use mice when they need to experiment between comparing with human. Because scientists say mouse have most similar body organ with us. So actually mice are useful to [...]

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