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Is moderated livestock grazing an effective countermeasure for desertification?
In the wild, herds of buffalo, elk, etc. cluster together to protect themselves from predators.
As the densely populated group moves around, it clears out vegetation and leaves manure, which their ...
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Is moderated livestock grazing an effective countermeasure for desertification?
This paper claims
This commentary summarizes the evidence supporting holistic management (HM) and intensive rotational grazing (IRG) to demonstrate the extent to which Sherren and coauthors (2012) ...
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Can a 7-Hz tone kill chickens via resonance?
Probably not.
I don't know about chickens, but I do know the resonance frequencies of a human head. If chicken heads can be exploded, presumably humans are in some sort of risk.
Multiscale ...
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Is moderated livestock grazing an effective countermeasure for desertification?
I'm not an expert on this specific topic, but will put a few contradictory things to balance some of the other answers. A quick search found an article in the journal Rangelands with the title "...
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Did an octopus visit another tank to hunt?
The story is probably true.
There's a surprisingly large body of research on making octopus tanks more escape-proof, and some of these articles start out with particularly spectacular stories in which ...
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Do bison conceal their pregnancy?
The article is about wild bison in the UK - so the European bison (Bison bonasus). It is also known as Żubr in Polish, which comes up later.
I found this question was disputed in an article from 1958 -...
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Do fish feel pain?
What sounds like a straightforward question is in fact a highly controversial one. There are dozens of research papers on the topic, in addition to a large number of publications more directed towards ...
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Do other animals have non-reproductive sex?
At the risk of upsetting Larian LeQuella, I'd say that mankind is unique in actually knowing that sex = reproduction. Some humans will have sex with the direct intention of producing offspring. This ...
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