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European Money Goes to Alternative Testing Research

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We're not even talking drugs or medical treatment here, we're talking stupid cosmetics. A substantial fund of EUR50 million (US$74 million) is being offered to European research teams to develop alternatives to animal testing for cosmetics and related industries. It's disheartening. From the University World News.

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Sri Lanka Attempts to Establish Animal Research Guidelines

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Last Monday (January 18, 2010), this country reached a milestone with regard to animal research when a booklet on the ‘Guidelines for Ethics Review of Research Proposals Involving Animals in Sri Lanka’, was launched at a simple ceremony held at the Colombo Medical Faculty presided over by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Prof.

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Snowy Owl Ethics

10,000 Birds

He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. Most arguments for conserving a species focus on things that we can measure in dollar amounts, such as ecotourism, medical benefits, etc.

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A Problem with Gulls

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Gulls in Larnaca, taken 22/02/2010 by ©Stavros Christodoulides Recognizing that gull identification is confusing doesn’t help your average birdwatcher however. This clearly showed Mayr’s grandeur: very shortly before he passed away at the age of 100, he saw one of his most important research hypotheses proven wrong.

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Unlikely Healer Walks on Three Paws

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He was named the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Cat of the Year for 2010, and he has authored two critically acclaimed books. The National Institutes of Health acknowledges and researches the healing powers that animals exert on humans.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. We start with Lendrum being arrested in 2010 at the Birmingham (U.K.) 2019), and now this book.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). 04 Aug 2016. 26 Mar 2016.

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