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Global warming puts penguins in danger

The four populations of penguins that breed on the Antarctic continent - Adelie, Emperor, Chinstrap and Gentoo - were under escalating pressure, Ria Novosti quoted the report published in a WWF Web site, www.panda.org. In the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, where warming has been the most dramatic,

Animals can re-learn smell of siblings after hibernation

The research on how animals recognize kin is vital to helping plan conservation programs for endangered species.

"Understanding kin recognition memory systems, or templates, is important to studying habitat selection, food choice, social bonds and mate preferences. It also is important to understand the degree of plasticity in these templates," explained Mateo.

"Knowledge of how long individuals maintain memories of familiar kin and non-kin is important for the design of captive-

  

"It was just so easy to say about a patient, well, he's depressed or schizophrenic, of course he's not sleeping well - and never to ask whether there could be a causal relationship the other way," the Telegraph quoted Robert Stickgold, a