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Clemson Researcher Investigates Impacts of Cages on Laying Hens

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The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 More is at stake than just the comfort of chickens, though the well-being of 284 million U.S. laying hens is no small matter. Nearly 95 percent of the 90 billion table eggs produced in the United States come from high-density cage systems.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. His seminal article, “Bird-Window Collisions,” based on dissertation research finished in 1979, was not published in a peer-reviewed journal until 1989.

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Vile Practices at Tulare County, CA Animal Shelter

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Arrested in June 2007, Michael J. Sargeant, doing business as Sargeant’s Wholesale Biologicals, buys carcasses from animal shelters and sells them to research facilities such as UC Davis’ School of Veterinary Medicine. I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley and am familiar with Tulare County. From the ALDF blog. Sargeant, William R.

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

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A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The first, Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago, was published by Christopher Helm in London in 2007 and then published in the United States in 2008 by Yale University Press. Richard ffrench died in 2010 at the age of 80.

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