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A distinct form or race of a species. (source: WCMC)

Tropical butterfly colonies disappearing  -  22 Oct 2007
MiamiHerald.com,A third subspecies, the rockland Meske's skipper once found on Pine Island Key, exists nowhere else, period. The losses, charted in a recently completed

Fashioning conservation  -  22 Oct 2007
Scientist,But their cousins - the South China tigers, a smaller subspecies with shorter, more widely spaced stripes that was the focus of a government eradication

Five Lions Fried to Death in India  -  22 Oct 2007
Environmental Graffiti,While India is well known for its tigers, what is not so well known is that it is also home to a rare subspecies of the lion found only in India.

More goose hunts scheduled  -  22 Oct 2007
Palladium-Item,In the last 15 to 20 years, a subspecies has evolved that doesn't migrate, so they stay in the park and reproduce, he said. Two-thirds of Indiana's parks,

Negatives of wild tiger pictures unveiled  -  22 Oct 2007
China Internet Information Center|,Zhou said that they contained photographic images of a South China tiger, an endangered tiger subspecies believed to have been extinct in the wild for more

Annual Sandhill crane count set for November  -  22 Oct 2007
Biloxi Sun Herald,The Mississippi Sandhill crane is an endangered subspecies and one of the rarest bird populations on the continent, he said. With intensive management

Study: Tradable permits might aid wildlife  -  Oct 15, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...full article Columbian White-tailed Deer -- The Columbian white-tailed deer is one of 30 subspecies of the white-tailed deer in North America,

Rare Chinese tiger spotted for first time in decades  -  Oct 12, 2007
AFPBEIJING (AFP) — A rare South China tiger has been spotted in the wild for the first time in decades, surprising researchers who feared the subspecies was

Star of one-man show bringing story home  -  Oct 19, 2007
Suburban Journals,He's also done a number of horror sequels: "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood," "Subspecies II," "Subspecies III" and Wes Craven's "The Hills Have

Rare China tiger seen in the wild  -  Oct 12, 2007
BBC News,The population of the South China tiger, the smallest tiger subspecies, was believed to number 4000 in the early 1950s. But numbers were greatly reduced

Warming alters walrus behavior  -  Oct 13, 2007
Los Angeles Times,A South China tiger has been caught on camera by a hunter-turned-farmer, the first confirmed sighting in 30 years of a subspecies experts had feared was

Rare South China Tiger Spotted in Wild  -  Oct 12, 2007
The Associated PressThe endangered subspecies known as the South China tiger was spotted by a farmer on Oct. 3, the China Daily said. Experts confirmed that it was a young wild

Wild tiger spotted over 30 years after 'extinction'  -  Oct 12, 2007
China Daily,XI'AN -- Chinese researchers announced on Friday that the wild South China Tiger, an endangered tiger subspecies believed to have been extinct in the wild

Rare tiger sighting prompts ban  -  Oct 17, 2007
International Animal Rescue,The subspecies was believed to have died out, until one was photographed earlier this month by a farmer. Experts have confirmed the animal is a South China

Anatomy of the Ron Paul Nation  -  Oct 18, 2007
Ludwig von Mises Institute,I have never had much enthusiasm for following politics; I found that a blanket condemnation of the whole subspecies Officeseeker stood me in good stead and

Endangered China tiger caught on camera after 30 years  -  Oct 12, 2007
Reuters UK,In the early 1950s an estimated 4000 of the tiger subspecies, one of the world's smallest and the only one native to central and southern China,

Hunting banned in South China tiger habitat  -  Oct 15, 2007
Shanghai Daily,Chinese researchers announced on October 12 that the wild South China tiger, a subspecies believed to have been extinct in the wild for more than 30 years,

Thirdmoon Post New E-card Online  -  Oct 17, 2007
Metal Underground,...the DigiPak and the accompanying text of the album, while being accompanied with excerpts from the songs "Character Of Scars" and "Crawl Of Subspecies".

Italian authorities hunt for killers of 3 endangered bears  -  Oct 3, 2007
International Herald Tribune,The bears belong to an endangered subspecies, and Italy's forestry service said it had dispatched a team to investigate. "These criminals must be arrested

Mitton: Song dialects in white-crowned sparrows  -  Oct 4, 2007
Daily Camera,Five subspecies of white-crowned sparrows are recognized, and they differ in song, the habitats they occupy, and the distances they migrate.

Cackling Geese in North Yarmouth  -  Oct 10, 2007
MaineToday.com,There’s so much variability in this species, between the subspecies, between the subspecies of Canada Goose, possible intergrades between the two,

Melbourne in worldwide fight to save the tiger  -  Sep 30, 2007
The Age,...three cubs — now almost a year old — are a family crucial to an international captive breeding program and efforts to save the subspecies in the wild.

South China Tiger seen in wild more than two decades after it was  -  Oct 13, 2007
kjrh.com,The official Xinhua (shin-wah) News Agency says the endangered subspecies is one of the world's smallest tigers. It's the only subspecies native to China's

Wild South China Tiger spotted 30 years after extinction  -  Oct 12, 2007
NewKerala.com,Xi'an (China), Oct 12: Chinese researchers announced Friday that the wild South China Tiger, an endangered tiger subspecies believed to have been extinct

Christmas Island: kingdom of the crab  -  Oct 20, 2007
Telegraph.co.uk,Soaring overhead was a pair of delicately-featured golden bosun birds, a subspecies of the tropic bird found nowhere else in the world.

Rare South China Tiger Spotted  -  Oct 13, 2007
AHNThe South China tiger is one of the world's smallest and only tiger subspecies native to China's central and southern areas. During the early 1950s,

Study: Moose move toward humans for safety  -  Oct 10, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...full story Grizzly Bear -- The Grizzly Bear, sometimes called the Silvertip Bear, has traditionally been treated as a subspecies, Ursus arctos horribilis,

Comments on this Story  -  Oct 7, 2007
Arizona Daily Star,...to watch Habitat Stress in action where it will either stimulate the rapid evolution of adapted subspecies or the species will go rapidly extinct.

Fish Story  -  Oct 18, 2007
SmithsonianCutthroats comprise at least 13 separate subspecies, each one fine-tuned by centuries of evolution for a particular nook or cranny of rugged mountain and

Photo of 'extinct' tiger sparks controversy  -  Oct 18, 2007
China Internet Information Center|,It is the only tiger subspecies native to China 's central and southern areas. In the early 1950s, its population was 4000 across the country.

On the edge: Florida panther stands close to disappearing  -  Oct 20, 2007
Naples Daily News,Critics frequently point to a 2000 National Cancer Institute study that suggested that the 32 puma subspecies should be reduced to six because of genetic

British Columbia protects forests to save caribou  -  Oct 17, 2007
Globe and Mail,BC has virtually the world's entire population of mountain caribou, a subspecies of the more widespread woodland caribou. Mountain caribou are found in the

John Ulmer of Goshen completes rare elk ‘grand slam’  -  Oct 19, 2007
KPCnews.com,He hoped to shoot a bull tule to complete his Grand Slam, which consists of bagging all three subspecies of North American elk. But the region was suffering

Hunting banned in NW China to protect "extinct" tiger  -  Oct 16, 2007
Xinhua,It is the only tiger subspecies native to China's central and southern areas. In the early 1950s, its population was 4000 across the country.

'Bubble Blogger' Takes on Housing Market  -  Oct 15, 2007
ABC NewsThat is a subspecies. … People shouldn't be taking my word for anything. They should do the math themselves." Type "housing market" into Google and

Warming is called a threat to forests  -  Oct 18, 2007
Arizona Daily Star,The Mount Graham red squirrel, a federally listed endangered subspecies that lives in a narrow zone in Arizona's Pinalenos near Safford, is perhaps the best

Florida Largemouth Bass - "Battle With The Best"  -  Sep 24, 2007
American Chronicle,These differences, as well as other physical characteristics, were used to classify Florida Largemouth Bass as a distinct subspecies in 1949.

The revamping of a monster  -  Oct 15, 2007
Seattle Times,Vampires in this world are a human subspecies that arose as the natural result of a genetic mutation, one which has made them stronger, more intelligent and

USGS at The Wildlife Society: From Safe Road Passage for Wildlife ...  -  Sep 27, 2007
Spatial News (press release),The researchers assumed that subspecies should reflect some indication of evolutionary history. Thus, the current morphologically-based subspecies of

Study: Neanderthals had “language geneâ€?  -  Oct 18, 2007
World Science,The researchers analyzed DNA from fossils found in a cave in northern Spain of Neanderthals, an extinct subspecies of stocky humans who lived in Europe and

The reign of sparrows  -  Oct 5, 2007
BurlingtonFreePress.com,Of the five recognized subspecies, the easternmost form that migrates through New England is, surprisingly, the least well known. These subspecies differ

Rare falcons shot in Cyprus  -  Oct 11, 2007
Science Daily (press release)California gnatcatcher and the abundant Baja (Mexico) gnatcatcher has shown no differences that would place the two birds in different subspecies.

The Sci-Files  -  Oct 17, 2007
Excalibur Online,Four thousand of the small animals, the only subspecies of tiger native to south and central China, existed in the wild until China’s economic expansion

Turkey season takes off  -  Oct 4, 2007
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune,In 1935, the state traded some sage grouse to New Mexico for 15 Merriam's turkeys, a subspecies of the Southwest and one of the five turkey subspecies in

Communist Cat Lovers and Urban Redevelopment  -  Oct 17, 2007
CNSNews.com,By Terence P. Jeffrey There is something singularly ironic about the Chinese government's exquisite concern for a singular subspecies of cat.

Sumatran tiger cubs in LA Zoo  -  Oct 17, 2007
IndiaPost.com,Sumatran tigers are the smallest of all the world’s tigers, and have more narrow stripes than the other subspecies of tigers.

Rare species worth saving  -  Oct 16, 2007
Marlborough Express,The dolphin is divided into two subspecies which occupy South Island waters and the north west coast of the North Island respectively.

Hopes high with these Zoo Atlanta arrivals  -  Oct 8, 2007
Atlanta Journal Constitution,...enough Rothschild giraffes in North America for zoos to breed successfully, so the American Zoo Association has approved mating the giraffe subspecies.

Uganda: Death Haunts Our Star Tourism Attraction  -  Oct 8, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Gorillas, the largest of the great Apes are divided into three subspecies that include the western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and the

Scientists study how knots form  -  Oct 4, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...(August 21, 2007) -- There has been a serious population decline in the Red Knot subspecies of bird, Calidris canutus rufa. Numbers at their wintering

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