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Pam Anderson Urges End to India's Animal Testing

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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. But the animals suffering behind closed doors at AIIMS must endure this nightmare every day."

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"Change of Heart": New Book about Animal Activism

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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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Rename All Birds Named After White People

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John Porter McCown, who shot the first recorded specimen of this species known to Euro-American science, was a Confederate general, a high-ranking officer in the insurrection led by the southern plantocracy to preserve and expand Slavery and the mode of white supremacy which it supported.

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Emerald Ash Borers vs. Woodpeckers (and Nuthatches)

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And with no natural predators or resistant trees in their adopted territory, things have been looking pretty grim. If there is one silver lining to all of this gloomy news, it’s that the efforts of birders truly make a difference in helping to advance science. Enter the woodpecker.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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Some differences in animal behavior are quite striking. Unfortunately, in the science of language, this does not sound particularly raunchy but rather like a rational decision: “A rare species such as the Chinese Pond Heron might choose heterospecific mates rather than abandoning all chances of reproduction.”

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

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And so the Friends of Animals took them to court, demanding an injunction and a return to live-trapping. And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces. Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science. And so, the U.S.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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was responsible for maintaining the universe, judging the dead, and for writing and science ( source ). The Sacred Ibis was seen as the incarnation of the god Thoth, who (with gods apparently better at multitasking than humans) was (or maybe still is, who knows?) Possibly also for doing the dishes. ” Sounds a bit speculative to me.

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