Critter News
OCTOBER 21, 2010
An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. The school has not listed any non-human primates in this category from 2005 to 2009, according to the complaint.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2023
Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.
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4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 25, 2009
Lee was also part of a team that created the first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005. Dogs often are used in research for narcolepsy, certain cancers and blindness. The team of scientists are hopeful that the creation of fluorescent puppies will help aid further research in human diseases.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 16, 2007
To inflict death or pain on animals for scientific or medical research is wrong morally, and ought to be prohibited. This does not mean that animals may never be deliberately harmed or become subjects of research. They may be used in benign research such as teaching chimpanzees to understand and use sign language.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
But it wasn’t until he studied falconry’s appeal to centuries-old cultures–the Persians, English, Dutch, French, Chinese, Russians, and people of the Middle East–that Cade realized the sport of kings was slowly dying and would disappear along with the age-old mystique of a raptor returning to the human who trained her.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2011
Unfortunately for those of us who make a living helping students master brain busters like these, the College Board jettisoned Analogies from the SAT back in 2005. But just as snipe are always cryptic, Gyrfalcons are always cool, even when they’re not ice cold like the ones in Nunavut!
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. They wrote books and published research. The authors occasionally add mini-essays on species increases, declines, or distribution.
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