Hunting Wood Buffalo

How much did Plains Indian hunting effect buffalo or other wildlife populations?

When Lewis and Clark left their 1805 winter camp near the Mandan and Hidatsa villages in what is now North Dakota, the Indians told them that they would find few bison or other large wildlife for at least three days travel to the west. The reason? That was the extent of the hunting territories of the two tribes. The Indian leaders assured the explorers that, once outside the radius of Mandan/Hi...

Mutualistic hunting

The cooperative acquisition, defense and distribution of meat are common problems that must be solved by social hunters. These were also problems faced by any of our hominid ancestors that may have hunted large game in our evolutionary past. Much of the last 40 years of research in evolutionary ecology has tried to understand such cooperative behavior. The classic Prisoner's Dilemma game theory...

Hunting dimers

HBCBH and HAlCAlH are related electrondeficient molecules, predicted as local minima on their respective potential energy surfaces. Different views of their electronic structure—as allenes, carbenes, or carbones—prompted two research groups to a friendly competition exploring the predilection of these small molecules to dimerize. Many such dimers emerged from the calculations, some with large e...

Rabbit Hunting

Virus hunting.

Viral diagnosis and discovery are receiving increasing emphasis with the recognition of their importance in addressing the challenges of emerging infectious and chronic diseases, and the advent of antiviral drugs with which to reduce the morbidity and mortality of viral infections. Here we review the status of the field including the use of molecular, proteomic and immunological assays for vira...