(THE CONVERSATION) — Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature regulation, camouflage and warning signals.

Elephant trunks have wrinkles since they are fetuses. When they're grown up, they have more wrinkles on their dominant side.

Tilo Burghardt and colleagues at Bristol have been working towards pattern recognition systems that can identify individual animals automatically. A small breakthrough came in ... venomous lizards ...

This is a baby giraffe. And it's born with lovely patterns on its skin. The patterns stay the same all through the giraffe's life. They're like giant spots. What other animals have spots?

The skin biopsy is an invaluable diagnostic tool ... General anesthesia may be necessary when removing larger masses, handling animals that cannot be controlled with physical restraint (such ...

There is more to treating animals in an appropriate way than keeping them healthy. Are we right to use animals as objects of entertainment? From the welfare point of view it is wrong to keep an ...

There are camouflage-pattern fur coats ... made much progress on animal welfare. He bristled, then tersely answered, “Not much.” A worker, not visible behind skin, at a Bangkok tannery ...

Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda. Scandinavians may have used boats made of animal skin for hunting and trading about 5,000 years ago, according to a study that sheds more light ...

It is a good idea for the teacher to review the program first. Highlight important and unusual activities of the Manu animals so that this can be pointed out during student viewing of the film.

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