Browsing by Subject "hybrids"

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    • Effort to revive Galapagos tortoises once thought extinct 

      Piedra, Santiago (BusinessWorld, June 21, 2013, on page S3/9)
      Scientists will try to revive two species of giant Galapagos tortoises thought to have been extinct by breeding genetic relatives in captivity, experts leading the effort said. The Galapagos Islands, located 1,000 kilometers ...

    • Filipino savants develop new abalone hybrids 

      Icamina, Paul M. (Malaya, November 11, 2011, on page A9-A10)
      New hybrid technology for abalone farming has been developed by scientists at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) Aquaculture Department. The new technology has produced two "presumptive" abalone ...

    • Netcage culture of hybrid tilapia in Bingawan cited 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/ Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) (Daily Informer, August 9, 1999, on page B1-B4)
      Tilapia culture in freshwater ponds, pens and net cages is now widely practiced in the Philippines. Demand for tilapia fry has been increasing that breeding techniques have come up with tilapia hybrids. A tilapia culture ...

    • Of zorses, wholphins and ligers 

      Carroll, Sean B. (Manila Bulletin, September 25, 2010, on page 10)
      Trainers at Hawaii Sea Life Park were stunned when a 182-kilogram gray bottlenose dolphin gave birth in 1985 to a dark-skinned calf that partly resembled a 909-kilogram false killer whale she shared a tank with. The calf ...

    • Welcome the "Red Tilapia" 

      Yap, Julio P. Jr. (Panay News, April 18, 2016, on page 12)
      We usually describe tilapia as the greyish-black fish that we often see in the market. Tilapia is commonly fried, broiled, or cooked in any other recipe which is popular in each region. But little we may know that there ...