Sheep put brave face on stress
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LONDON, England -- Sheep have shown researchers why stressed-out people are comforted by the sight of a friendly face. Scientists at the Babraham Institute in the eastern English city of Cambridge discovered
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By Bryce Petersen Jr. Standard-Examiner  MANTUA, Box Elder County  -- Rocky Mountain goats are thriving on top of Willard Peak and Ben Lomond.
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Shepherds on an island off Africa whistle to communicate across great distances. Their brains, a new study says, interpret the sounds just as if they were spoken words.
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A new insurance field shows signs of growing along with familial  feelings for animals.
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A few lucky people in need of a break from their stress got a chance at some of unconventional therapy.
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They have a fondness for napping and an uncanny nose for the next meal, but scientists have discovered that despite their apparently cushy lifestyle cats are as stressed as we are.
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With a clash of mallets and the stomping of jumbo feet that shook the earth, the game was under way. Tense commands were shouted by pith helmeted players tied firmly to their two-ton mounts. The beasts collided and the ball disappeared in a forest of elephantine legs, raising some dust and much laughter. We had just witnessed a classic scrum in the whacky sport of elephant polo.
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Sept. 22, 2004 - Belching and farting sheep and cattle, blamed by doomsters for driving the planet towards climate catastrophe, may have met their match.
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A fascinating new study in the January/February 2007 issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology looks at the benefits of huddling vs. solitude, comparing strategies used by striped skunks to get through long, cold winters in northern climates.
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Animal rights extremists are putting a horrified family through a cruel and macabre ordeal, it emerged yesterday.
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The BBC's Sue Nelson investigates claims that wild animals, who escaped the impact of the quake, may have a sixth sense.
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The web video "Battle at Kruger," in which a baby buffalo is rescued by its herd from a lion attack, is less surprising to animal behaviorists than to its millions of Web fans
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A few lucky people in need of a break from their stress got a chance at some of unconventional therapy. A Spanish hotel chain planning renovations at one of its Madrid locations offered 30 "highly stressed out people" &#151; selected by a team of psychologists &#151; the chance to take up sledge hammers and battering rams and smash through its rooms Tuesday.
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Â· 31 animals found dead in field  Â· Charities describe scene of unprecedented cruelty
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UK farmers anxiously await the results of tests which will show whether two different livestock viruses have spread.
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London - British scientists have found a seemingly unlikely way to soothe anxious sheep, a report said on Wednesday - by showing them photographs of other sheep.
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Men have been responding with enthusiasm to this winterâs influx of fur.