Red Fire Ants Found at Hong Kong Disney Site
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Red fire ants, whose fiery sting can sometimes be fatal to humans, have been found near the entrance to a Disneyland theme park in Hong Kong, a company official said Friday.
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What would Walt Disney say? Mickey and Minnie Mouse, left, have gotten a makeover that put him in a bright red Mao suit and her in a cherry-blossom red dress â all in an effort to appeal to Chinese tourists at Hong Kong Disneyland, The Associated Press reported. Mickey and Minnie strutted along a red carpet on Monday to display their new outfits, designed by Vivienne Tam, while nine other models showed off red and black dresses featuring Mickey Mouse patterns. âIâve liked Mickey Mouse since I was very little,â said Ms. Tam, who was reared in Hong Kong and works in New York. Amid disappointing attendance at Hong Kong Disneyland, which opened in 2005, Ms. Tam was brought in to help attract more tourists from the mainland, which has become the parkâs biggest market. Bill Ernest, the parkâs managing director, said, âOur mission is to be very connected with the local culture â with mainland China, Hong Kong.â.
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Trap-jaw ants have the fastest predatory limb movements ever recorded in the animal kingdom, scientists say.
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NEW YORK  - A new study suggests that many children in the southeastern United States are stung by fire ants, as evidenced by signs of an immune system reaction to the fire ant venom. Although this can put them at risk for a potentially severe allergic reaction the next time they are stung, the prevalence of severe reactions in this group is very low.
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NEW YORK - A new fossil discovery from China sh
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Dozens of orangutans forced to box each other in a Thai amusement park returned home Wednesday to start a new life in a jungle reserve on their native island of Borneo, officials said.
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If you have purchased an artificial Christmas tree this season you&#39;re being asked to check it for wood eating insects. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says two brands, the Dakota Alpine Christmas Tree
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ANTS use angled signposts, using tiny scent markers, to find their way home or follow the path into the wilderness, according to a study published today.
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This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Chris Austin&rsquo;s fieldwork takes him to some of the most inaccessible places on Earth in the pursuit of knowledge about the diversity of the world&rsquo;s amphibians and reptiles. He serves as assistant curator of Herpetology and assistant professor of Biological Science at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Science. This story relates some of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of field work in remote New Guinea.
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FORT WORTH, Texas - The tsunami victims in Asia will be getting some help from an elephant who was born in Thailand but now resides at the Fort Worth Zoo.  An original work of art by Rasha, a 7,000-pound elephant, will be auctioned off on e-Bay beginning at noon Wednesday.
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Multiple nests of one of the UK's rarest insects are found on the Scottish islands.
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Taiwan wants to eradicate red imported fire ants within three years but the pest, which has spread fear across the island, will be tough to get rid of, an agriculture official said Wednesday.
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MEXICO CITY - A miner in the state of Chiapas found a tiny tree frog that has been preserved in amber for 25 million years, a researcher said.
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Scientists believe they have found two new undocumented mammals -- a pygmy possum and a giant rat -- in the jungles of a remote mountain range in Indonesia's Papua province, a conservation group said.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Buddhist monks, who are bound by faith to nonviolence, are grappling with how to rid a temple of a severe ant infestation without killing the insects.
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The skeleton was found in the same sediment deposits on Flores that have also been found to contain stone tools and the bones of dwarf elephants, giant rodents, and Komodo dragons.
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There is a disagreement concerning the future of two elephants at the Detroit Zoo: a sanctuary or the Columbus Zoo. The American Zoo and Aquarium Association in Washington has