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Beagles Rescued from Bankrupt Lab

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One hundred and twenty beagles who faced lifetimes being used in medical research experiments have been freed — just in time for the Fourth of July weekend. Tags: animal research dogs Best Friends animal laboratories. and Elmsford, N.Y.,

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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

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Rock & Rawhide , a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that aims to increase adoptions for dogs and cats in shelters by providing toys and other items that serve as a form of distraction therapy, reducing the stress and noise levels. Research has shown that if noise and stress are reduced, adoptions go up!

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Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America: A Review by a Sparrow Fan

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It will be interesting to see if the proposal is adopted and this guide becomes the first to employ the new official usage, or if it sparks other bird guide authors to revolt against the system. In some species accounts, notably Song Sparrow, this text reads as a carefully researched, finely detailed ornithological/historical essay.

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

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GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. Experienced birders can identify birds using GISS; all birders can identify birds if they adopt the BBI approach. There is GISS and there is Birding by Impression and they are not the same.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. Long before that time Mexican domesticated Turkeys had been adopted by Native Americans in the American Southwest as well. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. Which would be weird. Kiva 78(1):37–60.

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