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Cancer in Dogs: Age at Diagnosis Is Related to Breed, Weight, and Sex
A study involving more than 3,000 dogs with cancer suggests that screening should be routine starting at age 7—or even as early as age 4 for certain breeds. In fact, large-breed...
Dogs can literally sense our stress
Dogs share a long history with our species, which gives them an amazing ability to interpret the signals we send them. They also possess an incredible sense of smell, which allo...
American foulbrood: Toward a Vaccine to Protect Bees
An efficacy study shows that bees born to queens vaccinated against American foulbrood are more resistant than those from hives whose queens are not vaccinated. This vaccination...
Microplastic Pollution: Serious Consequences for Animal Health… and Human Health
The seventh continent has become infamous in recent years. It consists largely of five plastic gyres scattered around the world. The consequences for marine flora and fauna are...
The lifespan of bees in the United States is 50 percent shorter than it was in the 1970s
A new factor may explain the decline in honey production and the loss of honeybee bee colonies over the past five decades. Scientists have been investigating the causes of these...
Daylight saving time leads to excess mortality among wildlife
A study published a few days after the switch to standard time highlights the negative effects of such a time shift on road safety. Maintaining daylight saving time year-round w...
Myxomatosis: When Viruses Become More Deadly Over Time
The course of myxomatosis in rabbits has often been cited as an example to demonstrate that a virus becomes less virulent when it becomes endemic within a population. This is kn...
Influenza A: Transmission of the H1N1 influenza virus between pigs and farmers has been confirmed
A study by the University of Minnesota conducted a risk assessment of interspecies transmission of the influenza A virus from pigs to farmworkers. The findings regarding the spr...
Will insects really be the food of the future?
Tom Bry-Chevalier , University of Lorraine When discussing the food of the future, one topic regularly pops up in the media: the consumption of insects. “Food of the Future: Ins...
Do Digital Technology and Agroecology Go Hand in Hand? The Case of Livestock Farming
Stéphane Ingrand , INRAE Contrary to popular belief, farmers in France own, on average, more digital devices than the rest of the population . Specifically, 67% of them own a de...
Extreme heat waves threaten bee fertility and cause sudden bee deaths
Alison McAfee , University of British Columbia In June 2021, temperatures exceeded 42 °C for several days in Western Canada. The town of Lytton, British Columbia, even reached 4...
Octopuses are intelligent: it would be unethical to farm them
An aquaculture project to farm octopuses in the Canary Islands would produce 3,000 metric tons of octopuses per year , which means that nearly 275,000 individuals would be kille...