Critter News

DECEMBER 5, 2009

We can't even get out of Afghanistan and we're going to Mars. Tags: animal research Stupid primates NASA. PETA organized protests to stop these stupid radiation experiments on spider monkeys. The purpose is to determine how astronauts would fare on the way to Mars. Give me an effing break.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

I wish we could stop killing animals for reasons related to killing humans. The tests "saved many lives" in Iraq and Afghanistan due to improvements in post-traumatic techniques, junior defence minister Quentin Davies said. Tags: UK animal research military pigs. From the BBC News.

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. car companies used live animals, including pigs, for crash tests until the early 1990s. They stopped after protests from animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Tags: rats animal experimentation military pigs. Did you know this?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2015

This pigeon is the national bird of Maharashtra and remains so after the officials rejected the proposal by conservationists that the rare and endemic Forest Owlet , found only in this state and nowhere else in the world, should replace the pigeon that inhabits the entire India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 5, 2009

First let's deconstruct: The recession has caused a decrease in demand for animal products. What if Meatless Mondays and all of the messages about decreasing consumption of animal products have made a difference and consumers have spoken? Translation? We don't really know.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 10, 2010

FSD specifically focuses its efforts on donating these animals to disabled military veterans. “We Service Members Get a Second Chance with Service Dogs originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on July 10, 2010. Tags: news people helping animals. FSD was founded as a 501c3 non-profit organization in 1987.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Beside India, Lynx Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of South Asia covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Mammals of South Asia (Paperback) Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka Pages 173 Dimensions 14 × 22.8 I clearly needed a mammal book. Highly recommended.

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Asia Mammals Sri Lanka Bhutan 187

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2024

I promise that this is the third and last in a series of posts covering a recent trip to Afghanistan. It contains a lot of non-bird photos of this area and ends with some description of my reason for traveling to Afghanistan and how you might support the people there. Finally, a bit further inside, a Long-legged Buzzard.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2023

Apparently, he used his various army postings in Afghanistan, Burma and on the Andaman Islands to study local birds whenever his busy schedule governing or fighting the locals allowed it. The species name ramsayi is presumably derived from Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay (the length of this name being comparable to the tail length of the bird).

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