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Public Release: 16-Jul-2008
Great Ape Trust to provide home for entertainment orangutans
A group of orangutans who appeared in Hollywood films, television commercials and magazine advertisements is being relocated to Great Ape Trust of Iowa -- a significant move that begins to close the curtain in the United States on the decades-long use of orangutans in the entertainment industry.
Contact: Al Setka
asetka@greatapetrust.org
515-720-7430
Great Ape Trust of Iowa
Public Release: 2-Jul-2008
Man vs. machine poker rematch
Polaris, the University of Alberta poker playing computer program, is heading to Las Vegas for a rematch against humans.
Contact: Michael Bowling
bowling@cs.ualberta.ca
780-492-1766
University of Alberta
Public Release: 1-Jul-2008
Book's plea: Save the bonobos
A biologist at Washington University in St. Louis is the mastermind behind a project that has led to an informative book, aimed at children but appealing to all, on an endangered species of ape. Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D., professor of biology, is the driving force behind "I'm Lucy, A Day in the Life of a Young Bonobo," written by Mathea Levine, Goodenough's daughter, and featuring the photographs of Marian Brickner. Jane Goodall writes the afterword.
Contact: Tony Fitzpatrick
tony_fitzpatrick@wustl.edu
314-935-5272
Washington University in St. Louis
Public Release: 23-Jun-2008
From the egg, baby crocodiles call to each other and to mom
For the first time, researchers have shown that the pre-hatching calls of baby Nile crocodiles actually mean something to their siblings and to their mothers. The calls -- which are perfectly audible to humans and sound like "umph! umph! umph!" -- tell the others in the nest that it's time to hatch, according to the report in the June 23 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Those cries also tell the mother croc to start digging up the nest.
Contact: Cathleen Genova
cgenova@cell.com
617-397-2802
Cell Press
Public Release: 13-Jun-2008
Journal of Experimental Biology
Lizards pull a wheelie
Lizards that run on two legs haven't evolved to pull the stunt; they're simply pulling a wheelie. Christofer Clemente from the University of Cambridge and colleagues from the University of Western Australia have found that lizards shift their center of mass back as they accelerate forward so that they're forelimbs lift off the ground leaving them running on two legs.
Contact: Kathryn Phillips
kathryn@biologists.com
44-122-342-5525
The Company of Biologists
Public Release: 11-Jun-2008
Will kids eat vegetables if they grow them?
Each night at dinner tables across Australia, frustrated parents say to their children: "Eat your vegetables!"
Contact: Lauren Eyles
Lauren.Eyles@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au
61-249-214-841
Research Australia
Public Release: 9-Jun-2008
Copeia
New catfish species named for museum mail supervisor
He's not well known like President Bush and musician Neil Young, but Philadelphian Frank Gallagher now has something in common with them: He has a new species named after him.
Contact: Carolyn Belardo
belardo@ansp.org
215-299-1043
The Academy of Natural Sciences
Public Release: 22-May-2008
TU Delft robot Flame walks like a human
Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his Ph.D. on Friday, May 30, is important as it provides insight into how people walk. This can in turn help people with walking difficulties through improved diagnoses, training and rehabilitation equipment.
Contact: Roy Meijer
r.e.t.meijer@tudelft.nl
31-152-781-751
Delft University of Technology
Public Release: 5-May-2008
There's a hole in my -- and in the data as well!
Like the popular children's song "There's a Hole in My Bucket," in which Liza and Henry try to patch a leaking pail, researchers with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC-San Diego are plugging a hole in the data management process by creating a universally accepted cyberinfrastructure to study our most valuable natural resource -- water.
Contact: Jan Zverina
jzverina@sdsc.edu
858-534-5111
University of California - San Diego
Public Release: 1-May-2008
Instant messaging -- a new language?
Dr. Pamela Takayoshi and Dr. Christina Haas, Kent State associate professors of English, along with four Kent State undergraduate researchers examined the language of instant messaging. They found that instant messaging is a unique language form differing from Standard Written English.
Contact: Melissa Edler
medler@kent.edu
330-672-8589
Kent State University
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