For Friday, March 20, 2009

Animal rights, circus lawyers differ on elephants

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090318/ap_on_go_ot/ringling_s_elephants;_ylt=AgREH.u1Lw.StWV6GGkI.vwPLBIF

No you haven't been drinking - that really is a pink elephant

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7951331.stm

Loxodonta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxodonta

Female Mammals Follow Their Noses To The Right Mates

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317153045.htm

Endangered Iberian lynx cubs born in Spain

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090320/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_lynx_cubs;_ylt=Amuej4SoSurfPosecFxL1sWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTJkYzh2YzRyBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwMzIwL2V1X3NwYWluX2x5bnhfY3VicwRwb3MDMTYEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDZW5kYW5nZXJlZGli

Lynx pardinus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Lynx

Finches choose sex of offspring

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7953467.stm

Erythrura gouldiae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouldian_Finch

US birds in 'widespread decline'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7955085.stm

Nearly all native birds in Hawaii are in peril, report says

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1046479

Change Of Lighting Could Drastically Reduce Bird Death By Collision With Communication Towers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319102421.htm

Major Losses For Caribbean Reef Fish

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319132911.htm

'Deadly' spider found in Okla. store may have been misidentified

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1046450

Phoneutria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_wandering_spider

Fossil Fragments Reveal 500-million-year-old Monster Predator

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319142403.htm

Hurdia victoria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdia_victoria

Liquid Saltwater Is Likely Present On Mars, New Analysis Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319232438.htm

Famed fossil hunter to admit dinosaur crimes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29779224/

UK team builds robot fish to detect pollution

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52j1ry-us-robotfish/

Influenza And Bacterial Pneumonia Make For Harmful Super-infection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317111904.htm

Lab-grown Nerves Promote Nerve Regeneration

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319160122.htm

Zapping Parkinson's through shocks to spinal cord shows promise

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/03/20/parkinson-spinal-cord.html

Exposure To Insecticide May Play Role In Obesity Epidemic Among Some Women

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319111328.htm

Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene

Teeth Of Columbus' Crew Flesh Out Tale Of New World Discovery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319132954.htm