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Article: Diet study may help save giant panda.
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- Life Science Weekly
- Article date:
- May 19, 2003
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2003 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- For many years the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station's Grazingland Animal Nutrition Lab has analyzed fecal matter taken from livestock and wildlife, but never before has it attempted to study samples from giant pandas. And what they discover could help prevent the animal's extinction, as well as be applied to livestock and other wildlife.
"We may also find something out from this that we don't anticipate. That might be good for livestock," said Doug Tolleson, director of the Grazingland Animal Nutrition Laboratory at Texas A&M University, one of three participating project partners that include Mississippi State ...