Critter News
JULY 5, 2010
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. Best Friends Animal Society headquartered in Kanab, Utah, and Pets Alive Animal Sanctuary, based in Middletown, N.Y.,
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 12, 2012
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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10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2019
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.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2015
Experienced birders can identify birds using GISS; all birders can identify birds if they adopt the BBI approach. Instead, we get references and quotes from Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink , the popular science book that takes bits and pieces from various research projects to make the case that we make choices without consciously thinking.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
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. Which would be weird. I find that a little surprising since it is our national bird.
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