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Ghoulish Primate Experiment in South Africa

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Jordaan allegedly submitted a research application to the University of the Free State, but its animal ethics committee rejected it. Kotze said Jordaan had apparently doing "stem cell research" to help people walk again after a friend of his had been paralysed in an accident. He was told to rewrite and resubmit it.

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Crossbill Guides: Interview with Dirk Hilbers

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Besides that, I teach environmental ethics courses for biology students at the university and currently I am working also on an exciting project of producing a simulation game called ecosim (primarily an education tool for students) in which the player has to fulfil conservation tasks in an interactive ecosystem (e.g.

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People Who Want to Ban Circus Animals are Bozos?

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Henican writes: The truth of the matter, of course, is that most city kids will never have the chance to visit the wilds of Africa and Asia, assuming there are any wilds left in the decades to come. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. We’ll all turn out to cheer for them, while the animals run free on Seventh Avenue.

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What makes a good bird guide?

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I will equally recommend a guide who finds the target bird and the one who does everything within birding ethics to find it and fails. I remember one guide in the south of Africa. In my eyes, what counts is how someone plays the game.

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Birding Lodges – Part 1 – Paradise in Portugal

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The reasonable rates really do not adequately reflect both the level of comfort and the personalized service ethic. Anderson River Park Never Disappoints Barbados The Other Antigua About the Author James A life-long birder and native of South Africa, James Currie has many years experience in the birding and wildlife tourism arenas.

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Asia’s Deadliest Bird: The Brown Prinia

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The prinias are a group of around 25 Old World warbler species found in Africa and Asia. Let this post be a fair warning to all birders visiting Java: it may be perfectly safe (if ethically questionable) to sneak up on a bird as close as possible to take a picture, closer and closer until it flies off.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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It would love to read more about the ethical considerations that go into using playback for research purposes and how federal rules against playback affect research design. For example, the authors explain ‘playback,’ a technique utilized in many of the studies they summarize and apparently in their own studies.