Scientists map genome of pig
YAHOO!
WASHINGTON (AFP) - An international team of scientists announced Monday that it had produced a first draft of the genome of a domesticated pig , an achievement that researchers say will lead to insights in agriculture, medicine, conservatio...
Investing by burgers and beer
CNN Money
Thanks to the more than 150 million domesticated cats and dogs in the United States, another staple for Travis is the pet care industry. No matter how deep a recession, "most people aren't going to make their pets suffer," he says. A recent...
New Fairfield woman domesticates feral cats
Danbury News-Times
NEW FAIRFIELD -- Feral cats are wild by nature and don't trust human beings, but a New Fairfield woman has proved they can be domesticated. Ann Hagman already had two pet cats she'd rescued from a shelter when she noticed a bony, little bla...
Snail, By Peter Williams
The Independent
Snails inspired Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York and Borromini's sensational spiral lantern tower in Rome. Possibly the first animal domesticated by man, the protein of farmed snails is at least 50 per cent cheaper than be...
Where's the beef? In land of cowboys, pig thrives
Miami Herald
From the earliest settlements in Virginia, it's one of the oldest domesticated creatures to make its way down American gullets. But somewhere along the line, pork was cast as an also-ran, below burgers and chicken in the culinary taxonomy.
Manny Pacquiao should be extremely nervous...about Jimmy Kimmel Show
Examiner
To hear Arum tell it, Pacquiao's hotel was not fine for wild goats or domesticated donkeys. I hear Arum is expanding his column and will shortly be writing for Hotels.com. I hope Pacman's Kimmel outing is a big hit and that it shows his ple...
Scientists Decode DNA Of Domestic Pig
NPR News
Schook says having the sequence of a domesticated pig will help scientists learn how domesticated pigs diverged from their wild cousins. "We can begin to look at regions of the genome that contribute to behavior and disease resistance by lo...
How Physiotherapy Helps Animals
Associated Content
In animals, physiotherapy is often useful in combating aging, injury and disease in just about every species of both domesticated and wild animals. When utilized in conjunction with normal veterinary practices, physiotherapy can result in a...
Animals make the perfect humans
CNN
One of the reasons we made a social contract with domesticated animals years ago was to "borrow" their power, speed, senses. In return, we feed them, care for them. We have broken this contract. They have not. No animal will ever speak thos...
Feral Detroit
Forbes
We usually apply the word "feral," which means "reverting to a wild state," to domesticated animals that are abandoned and must survive on their own. But in rapidly shrinking Detroit, where tens of thousands of structures have sat empty for...