http://AnimalTechnology.com Animal Action Information: Animal Technology News You Can Use Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:50:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=76 http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=76#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:50:18 +0000 Jessica http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=76 After experiencing several political upheavals and natural disasters, Liberia is now facing another kind of problem, this time a biological invader.   Small but highly destructive armyworms have made their way to several Liberian farms, and are munching away happily at the crops.   The peasant farmers of Liberia – most of that country’s population [...]]]> http://AnimalTechnology.com/?feed=rss2&p=76 0 http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=75 http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=75#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:30:17 +0000 Jessica http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=75 If everything goes right, the modern world will be able to see what a mammoth looked like in its real flesh and bones.   A fossil unearthed in the northern Yakutsk region in Russia in 2003 has attained fame as the best-preserved remains of the animal so far.  This has given enough grist to Russian [...]]]> http://AnimalTechnology.com/?feed=rss2&p=75 0 http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=82 http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=82#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:57 +0000 animallover http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=82 [This post appeared with a title, but no body. The title is promising. Author, please return and finish entering this. Otherwise, I'll delete this post in a few days. --- Admin]]]> http://AnimalTechnology.com/?feed=rss2&p=82 0 http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=74 http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=74#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:18:11 +0000 Jessica http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=74 Why do normally harmless desert locusts suddenly become aggressive and cause widespread destruction in farms?   The answer has now been obtained, and the discovery has excited the animal control world. Desert locusts spend a large part of their lives in quiet activity, but there are times when these locusts form huge swarms and invade [...]]]> http://AnimalTechnology.com/?feed=rss2&p=74 0 http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=72 http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=72#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:28:43 +0000 Jessica http://AnimalTechnology.com/?p=72 Elanco, a branch of Eli Lilly and Company, has acquired from Monsanto the rights to sell Posilac, a product containing recombinant bovine somatotropin.  Among other uses, somatotropin is useful for promoting growth in cattle.   The recombinant DNA technology involved in the production of this form of bovine somatotropin makes Posilac an artificial hormone.   With the [...]]]> http://AnimalTechnology.com/?feed=rss2&p=72 0