Let's be clear: physically aggressive behavior arises in a sizable minority of dementia patients — a German study of nursing home patients published last year put the proportion at nearly 29 percent — but those most endangered are the people with dementia themselves and their caregivers.
While Europe's birds were flying higher, the most endangered mammal in North America nearly crashed into extinction.
Now, many officials say, the weather-hardened watermen, who have scoured the shallow bays along the coast for generations, are nearly as endangered as their catch.
Animals and plants identified in boldface are either among the nearly 1,400 endangered or threatened species or populations, or among the 260 candidates waiting to be listed under the Endangered Species Act.
Listing of species in the IUCN categories "Nearly Threatened", "Vulnerable", "Endangered", and "Critically Endangered" ([34], cf. IUCN website http://www.iucnredlist.org)., was coded as "present on the list", while the category "Least Concern" was coded as "not present".
It turns out that four years after someone receives the booster shot in about the seventh grade, the vaccine's protection nearly vanishes, endangering high schoolers such as those at Harvard-Westlake, said Dr. James Cherry, a UCLA expert on pediatric infectious diseases.
Pythons are what biologists call "apex predators" that eat nearly everything, including endangered species.
PAGE A15 Limiting Critical Habitats Pressed by developers' lawsuits, two federal agencies are asking courts to limit protections for nearly two dozen endangered species.
The few hutias that remain are nearly all highly endangered.
A San Gabriel man tried to avoid detection when he smuggled nearly four dozen endangered turtles, but he wasn't fast enough.
The bonobo population has dropped to nearly 10,000, placing these endangered creatures devastatingly close to total extinction.
