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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

Critter News

Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. That's because of a little-known state law that requires government-run pounds to turn animals over to researchers if asked. From the AP.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

About a quarter of the world’s Brown Bears live in Europe (including the Russian part of it), some 55,000, divided into nine separate and evermore fragmented populations – some of them dangerously tiny, a dozen or two dozen animals only. inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. After all, bears are solitary and elusive animals.

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