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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Whittaker had not yet gotten the message that birds don’t smell, her intellectual background was in primate research, but a colleague set her straight, telling her, “Birds don’t have a sense of smell, so I don’t understand why you’d study that anyway?” ” (p.

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What if the Public Truly Probed Animal Research Funding?

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There's a reason for the security that keeps Beagle burn videos from surfacing like egg farm videos. No wonder the research community wraps a "saves lives" cloak around its work whether falsified journal articles or Larson's "speech" studies. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates.

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Questionable Practices at the Calgary Zoo

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Look at all these incidents that have occurred there (listed in the Montreal Gazette article in the above link).I In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs. Zoo patrons were shocked to see Barika, a western lowland gorilla, holding a knife and apparently pointing it at another primate in the enclosure.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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If the male’s color fades after the first egg, the female reacts by laying a smaller second egg – seemingly deciding that it is better to cut her losses as the male apparently is the avian equivalent of a deadbeat father. At Sepilok, it can be hard to avoid taking photos of some non-birds, such as primates.