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FEBRUARY 13, 2024
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AAALAC International appoints Dr. Gary Borkowski as CEO
AVMA News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Borkowski will serve as the new CEO of AAALAC International, a nonprofit that promotes the humane treatment of animals in science through voluntary accreditation and assessment programs. Starting in October, Dr. Gary L.
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Evidence of earlier humans in Madagascar is unconvincing but interesting
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
There is a virtual flock of new and interesting bird science news all of the sudden, including the rediscovery of an extinct Bahama Nuthatch. It was always thought that humans first inhabited the island of Madagascar about four or five thousand years ago or so. Science did not let us solidify that claim.
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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! From National Geographic News : Cassin’s auklets are tiny diving seabirds that look like puffballs. You see, it is all connected. But I didn’t get to that either.
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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment. If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen.
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Quoth the Ravens: We’re Ready for Our Close-up
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2014
Common Ravens tend to avoid nesting around lots of humans. Why else would they build their nest, which already contains two eggs, on the fire escape of the college’s science center? Which is what makes the Ravencam so special, according to Professor Nicholas Rodenhouse, who teaches environmental science and biological sciences.
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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).
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Why Humans Are the Only Ones with Rights
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2011
Someone posted a question about why humans have human rights and whether they should considering that others do not. In the matter of science, and there are varying levels of this viewpoint, the human is the most advanced of creatures. I responded. It's not profound, but an opinion. We are made in God's image.
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Christian Science Monitor Calls for Endangered Species Hour
Critter News
MARCH 28, 2010
I like this opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor which calls for an "Endangered Species Hour." The Christian Science Monitor rightly points out that citizens and consumers need to get involved in endangered species protection, because at the CITES level, it's all about money and international politics.
The Elusive Goal of Bird-Safe Skyscrapers
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
The latest edition of Science News delves into the work of scientists studying this problem. Proposed solutions include creating glass with images that reflect ultraviolet light (which many birds can see but humans can’t), or that features dots or stripes barely visible to the human eye.
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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2023
Christian Cooper comes on screen about two-and-a-half minutes into The Central Park Effect , appreciating a Prothonotary Warbler at ‘the Point’ while telephoning a friend with the news (this is pre-text group), a nice hint of the collegial networks that underlie Central Park birding. Nah, sadly, probably not.
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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2024
Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. Which sounds like a species name taken from a science fiction novel for children. The bees pursue the bird until it settles down somewhere, try to sting it, and get eaten ( source ). Why move toward the food when you can have the food move to you? Reluctantly back to birds.
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Some thoughts on scientific collecting
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2015
The species was in the news because some scientists had finally managed (or bothered – it’s much the same thing) to locate the population high in the mountains of the Solomon Islands, and catch and photograph one. If you want to know why most scientists support collecting this piece in Science explains it better than I can.
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Firebirds and the Future
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
Sometimes it’s hard to know what to think about science reporting on this vast Internet of ours. When you receive a link to an article in the Daily Mail , for instance, your thoughts do not immediately leap to “my god, a ground-breaking, perhaps even mind-blowing advance in the study of avian tool use!”
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Looking for Books about Animal Experimentation
Critter News
MARCH 21, 2012
It's a horrible topic and I post news articles about the abuses from time to time. But I want to be able to argue about it intelligently, citing science, not just morals. Apparently, there is a lot of argument out there than animal experimentation is even good for humans. Many times tests fail. Or vice versa. Or vice versa.
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Murder Most Wildfowl: A Review of “A Dance of Cranes” by Steve Burrows
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2019
This is good news, and especially so for birders. It’s a matter of personal preference: neither does every reader like, say, science fiction, or the writing of Henry James, or romance novels. In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For
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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan, China in 2017
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2023
I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.
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15 Australian Birds (Episode 4)
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2022
Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!”
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2013
In other bird science news, we should be concerned about waterfowl in China. The new H7N9 bird flu is probably widespread in birds, because it seems to be poking itself into human populations one person at a time over a very large geographical area.
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183 Every sperm is sacred
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2015
If you’re feeling particularly science-y, the full paper is here.). This differs from humans and other mammals, in which the addition of extra sperm essentially destroys the egg. That’s the finding of researchers from the University of Sheffield in the UK, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (If
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145 Just like in people, yawning is contagious in birds
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2015
Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. New research suggests that the phenomenon of contagious yawning can also be seen in birds. Apologies in advance for the ridiculous amount of yawns that reading this post will engender.
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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2022
I saw them at Ayers Rock which while I was there had the worst floods in memory (my parents in Germany thought I must be traveling under a bad star, as they heard about these floods in the German news and knew I was there at that time). was responsible for maintaining the universe, judging the dead, and for writing and science ( source ).
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147 And the Beats Go On…
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2011
After all, if you, our regular readers, don’t know who is where what hope has a random new visitor of figuring it all out? Our Beat Writers and their schedule can be found right here but don’t go clicking through just yet – there is exciting news to share! He also blogs at Scienceblogs.com.
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146 West Virginia University to Build Animal Research Lab
Critter News
MARCH 6, 2010
From West Virginia Metro News. The laboratory will be used to study human diseases and treatments. Setting up experiments to try and develop new insights that would be even before the drug development phase. Why would this West Virginia University project be the recipient of federal stimulus money? Because it will create JOBS!
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NASA Funds Radiation Experiments on Monkeys
Critter News
NOVEMBER 7, 2009
was one of 12 awarded radiobiology research grants through NASA's Human Research Program, the space agency announced October 27. In Bergman's study, according to Discovery News, 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys would be subjected to radiation and periodically tested to gauge how exposure affects performance in a variety of learned tasks.
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Healthy Birds, Healthy Rainforest: Lessons from the Amazon
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
But not everyone sees things through such an avian-positive lens, and hence science often has to make the case for birds’ intrinsic worth. The scientists hope to expand the scope of their study to examine how humans affect global ecosystems. The latest such argument focuses on birds’ value to the well-being of rainforests.
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The Effects of Wildfires on Wildlife
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2018
According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. References: 1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This is about 35 miles West of my home. over the last 30 years.
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A Lump and a Split and the List is Shredded?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 24, 2016
A press release about the study likened the contrast to “the differences between humans with and without freckles.”) Genetic differences in throat color illustration by Liz Clayton Fuller/Bartels Science). On the opposite end of the spectrum is new research considering Yellow-rumped Warblers.
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Always Question a Scientist
Critter News
JULY 25, 2009
This statement is mainly motivated by a recent conversation with someone who has a science degree (I think it's biology), but who actually works for a clinical testing company. One of the issues raised by a member was that we need to listen to "science" more and that science will save us. Science does not solve everything.
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100 Bird Butts and Other Matters
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2014
There is a bit of science news. At some point perhaps I’ll write up for you how the evolution of humans, specifically the ape-human split, and Galapagos bird evolution are the same thing in this regard. But there were a gazillion of them. Birds Bird evolution character displacement conservation biology mumeration'
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Flock to Marion
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals.
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Will Animal Research Ever End?
Critter News
JUNE 5, 2009
Some scientists say it could end in a generation if we pursue the creation of "virtual humans" and living cell banks as research replacements. Tags: animal experimentation animal research medical research science. I just don't understand why.
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Use it or lose it?
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2014
The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Conservation conservation science hunting logging' she’s Texan.
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
Here's a site for kids to program them to become "the next generation of laboratory animal science professionals." the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Foundation. Also, it's a great way to get girls interested in science! It's sponsored by (surprise!) And where did I find this lovely site?
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100 Growing Number of Scientists Question Animal Research
Critter News
APRIL 4, 2009
The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures.
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RSPCA Collects 68,000 Signatures Supporting an End to Animal Research
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
The RSPCA collected these signatures leading up to the the 7th World Congress on Alternatives & Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Rome. 68,315 people signed an online RSPCA petition stating "We, the undersigned, call on the British Government to work towards ending the use of animals in experiments, replacing them with humane alternatives.".
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Positive Responses from Animal Testers?
Critter News
DECEMBER 7, 2010
"Today we are at a new biological milestone, where we could, with sufficient international and political support, produce the means and the technology to test and assess the human and environmental risk of tens of thousands of chemicals per year without using animals," the report says.
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100 Atheists or Believers?
Critter News
OCTOBER 17, 2008
Atheist podcasts I listen to still seem to value humans over animals, just for different reasons. They use science as the basis for superiority which justifies experimentation and other abuses. Humans and animals are not the same, but it's not a matter of soul, but of superior intellect.
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100 Another Mass Extinction on the Way?
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
In an article published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, UC Berkeley researchers argue that substantial die-offs of amphibians and other plant and animal species add up to a new mass extinction facing the planet.
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Pam Anderson Urges End to India's Animal Testing
Critter News
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. Anderson, famous for slow-motion beach running scenes in the hit 1990s lifeguard TV show, wrote to R.C.
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100 "Change of Heart": New Book about Animal Activism
Critter News
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. Change Of Heart provides science-based answers to many questions that are hotly debated among animal activists. In the author's words.
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"Earthlings" Available as Audio Book
Critter News
MARCH 31, 2009
Earthlings is a feature-length documentary about how dependent human beings are on animals, primarily in five key areas: pets, food, clothing, entertainment and science. For those who can't handle the visuals, now it's available as an audio book.
Animal Testing Debate Continues in New South Wales
Critter News
JULY 7, 2009
Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science.
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100 The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
” This illustration from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (July 1875), drawn by Smith Bennett, is included in both The Passenger Pigeon and A Message From Martha. We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. It’s an effective introduction.
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