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Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf population drops after release endangered list

When an animal is taken off the endangered species list because its population has risen to a healthy level, it’s considered a win for the environment. It shows that conservation methods are working and that the system actually work. What happens do those animals once the protection is lifted?

The Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf is present in several states, including Montana, Wyoming and Ohio. The populations had grown so much that the animals were taken off the endangered species list in 2012. This meant that the individual states could now decree that they animals could be hunted.

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iPhone apps for expecting mothers

Pregnancy is a special time in a woman's life. It's also a stressful time when mothers-to-be worry about everything from what the baby will look like to what college the baby will attend later. You don't have to lose your mind while trying to keep track of your pregnancy and labor milestones. Download these apps to help you keep your sanity and your memories while you're expecting.

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A Nanzen-ji Temple story

The young man writes that he’s staying in a temple on his customs form. An officer questions his entry, “How unusual,” and delays the boy’s entry into Japan as he consults his superior. Within a few minutes the matter is deemed inconsequential and the journey continues on through the airport, onto a bus and two hours later he arrives at the entrance to his temple lodging at Nanzen-ji in Kyoto.

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Giant super crabs coming to oceans near you

Giant crabs menacing the populations of ocean view towns are the things of B-movies and bad television, but pollution from burning fossil fuels is leading to “super-sized” predatory crabs. While these large crabs won’t be carting off any damsels in distress, they could have an impact on sea ecosystems and your dinner plate.

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Debating the merits of fake crab

Fake crab meat has a bad name, and you can kind of see why. Any time you're selling one kind of food which has been colored, flavored and re-textured to seem like another, you're on shaky ground. (I'm thinking of those cracker snack packs, with the salty orange substance in the little tub, and the red plastic stick for spreading it. The package euphemistically describes it as "Cheez.")

But hey, have you seen the price of crab lately?

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What's the deal with quinoa?

After reading about how 2013 is the "International Year of Quinoa," and how quinoa's popularity has turned it into a cash crop in Bolivia (which is problematic for the Bolivians who choose to grow it), I was motivated to give this grain a try.

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Tsukiji Fish Story

It’s 3 a.m. and every nerve in my body wants to stay in bed but quickly the intellect clears enough to remind me that the world’s largest fish market is springing to life just a few blocks away and I’ve been invited to witness the structured chaos within its gates.

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Kabuki in Tokyo

As my taxi rounded the corner in Tokyo’s Ginza district, the crowd shifted. Suddenly there were more kimonos present than seen all day. The answer why lay close. It was midday and nearly time for the matinee performance at Japan’s National Kabuki Theater.

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Spiders ensnare and hunt bats: The stuff nightmares are made of

As if spiders weren't scary enough, I have just found out that some of them are large enough to ensnare and feed on bats. Folks, this is the stuff nightmares are made of – at least my nightmares. A scientific paper in PLOS ONE reports that more than 50 incidences of bat predation by spiders have been recorded on every continent except Antarctica. Sometimes the bats got tangled up in the webs and died of reasons like starvation and exhaustion.

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Tribe hunts shark species to local extinction

Indigenous tribes of the Gilbertese Islands in the Republic of Kiribati hunted two separate shark species into local extinction during the 19th Century.

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