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around campus. Otters Wired to Succeed ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Four river otters has been released from theSeneca Park Zoo Seneca Park Zoo is a zoo located in Rochester, New York. The Zoo covers an area of 12 acres (49,000 m2) and houses 300 animals. The zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). in an attempt to reintroduce the animal to central andwestern New York Western, New York is also the name of a town in Oneida County, New York.Western New York refers to the westernmost region of New York State. after an absence of nearly 100 years. The zoo, along with the New York New York, state, United StatesNew York,Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of River Otter project and FingerLakes Community College Finger Lakes Community College is a college affiliated with the State University of New York. The college has three locations: Canandaigua (the main campus) Geneva, and Newark, in order to serve the needs of several counties in the Finger Lakes region of New York. , devised a plan to surgically implant the otterswith electronic transmitters. "If we are not able to track them, it tells us that they ,arebeing hunted: this is a true conservation effort," said Dr. JeffWyatt who will implant the device. The otters were last month released into the south end of HoneoyeLake, an area which contains 1,000 acres dedicated to natureconservancy: Students from the college use radiotelemetry equipment to track theotters' movements within a two-mile radius and report theirwhereabouts to the zoo and the River Otter project. Tracking of the otters will be limited to two years, the life ofthe transmitter batteries. Seneca Park Zoo has been involved with the River Otter projectsince its reception in 1995, The project includes the New YorkDepartment of Environmental Conservation and individuals working tobring otters to this pair of the state. Students Learn to X-ray the Dead ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Some Washtenaw Community College Washtenaw Community College is a community college located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1965,[1] the school has comprehensive training partnerships with local and national businesses and organizations, and transfer agreements with the University of radiologystudents have already learned how to X-ray the living. Soon,they'll learn how to X-ray the dead. Jerry Baker and to of his students are already preparing to joinscientists working at an ancient ruin next spring in Peru, wherethey'll X-ray mummies, trying to pin down genders, age and otherphysical characteristics "They'll experience a new aspect of radiography radiography:see X ray. ," hesaid, "This moves radiography to a new level in academia." Students also will get a chance to participate in digs for themummies, which are located in brick tombs in a ruin of the Chirabeyapeople, who predate the Inca Indians. "We'll mix with different cultures, get to travelinternationally and learn Sparest," student Tammy Mamo said. The students began getting specialized training last weekend atArkansas State University Arkansas State University,at Jonesboro; coeducational; chartered 1909; named State Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1925–33. In 1933 the school became Arkansas State College, and in 1967 it achieved university status and adopted its present name. , learning about bone pathology, excavationtechniques and cultural issues. "We got to practice on dummy mummies," Baker said. The X, rays will help identify what was buried with the mummies.For example, earlier finds have shown pots and amulets placed in thebody cavities of the mummies, Baker said. One pot was filled with cocoaleaves, chewed for its narcotic narcotic,any of a number of substances that have a depressant effect on the nervous system. The chief narcotic drugs are opium, its constituents morphine and codeine, and the morphine derivative heroin.See also drug addiction and drug abuse. effect. X-rays have shown the teeth ofsome of bodies have been worn down, possibly from chewing the cocoaleaves, he said.