10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Manker’s thesis is that ornithology is an excellent gateway to students becoming science majors in college and, more broadly and longer-term, conservation-minded citizens. That article left an impression and I have wondered what became of Manker’s effort to create a high school ornithology curriculum. And many become birders.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I really believe the more people learn about what research animals go through, the more common decency becomes a factor. But how many animal research supporters (non-scientists) actually step into a room and observe an experiment? How many of them actually see these animals in the labs? It upsets them.

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Critter News

MAY 8, 2010

She testified in favor of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Now, she's been suspended from working with animals. From Current.com She was recently suspended from working with animals, a “rare move prompted by what officials called a ‘clear pattern’ of problems with animal welfare.”

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2010

Only one of the interesting points in this opinion piece on animal research by Lee Schneider on the Huffington Post. Only three accredited medical schools in the whole country use animals to teach surgery. Surgical simulators and supervised operating room experience work just fine.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

recently met the National Animal Supplement Council’s nationally recognized standards after a rigorous facility audit, earning the NASC Quality Seal. It’s clear that Rocky & Bella is dedicated to the health and wellness of companion animals.” About the National Animal Supplement Council. Bryn Mawr, Penn.—Pet

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2010

It will house rodents for use in experiments. Setting up experiments to try and develop new insights that would be even before the drug development phase. Tags: west virginia university animal research Obama tax dollars us. Why would this West Virginia University project be the recipient of federal stimulus money?

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Amy is a Public Health student and an animal lover. She enjoys spending time with her two dogs, and suggests studying animal care for those who wish to turn their love into a career. Are you considering a career path that will let you interact with and help animals? Zoologists study behaviors, interactions and habits of animals.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2009

Animal Person , someone who is clearly smarter than me, has a great analysis about the recent "Pepper" series in Slate about animal research. At least he didn't try to make me feel happy or warm and fuzzy about animal research. Animal Person points out this comment made by Daniel Engber, the author.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Some differences in animal behavior are quite striking. This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” at Disney’s Animal Kingdom ( source ).

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Here's a site for kids to program them to become "the next generation of laboratory animal science professionals." the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Foundation. Experimenting on animals is fun and it helps everyone.even animals! It's sponsored by (surprise!)

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley. With those caveats in mind, I took up Dale Peterson’s The Moral Lives of Animals with hope and not a little trepidation.

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Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Daniel Engber, senior editor at Slate , has posted the first of a five-part series about animals used for research. Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science ," thankfully wasn't called Pepper, the stolen dog that changed American science," so that was an encouraging sign. Pepper was a beloved family pet. Stay tuned.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

You may believe I am making this up (well-justified based on past experience), but there is indeed a study titled “Socioeconomic and Cultural Importance of The Yellow-Fronted Canary (Serinus Mozambicus) in Northern Benin” examining the background of canary traders. They exercised this activity in part-time (96.5%).

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Critter News

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures. -- Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

I'm behind on my email and only just read this action alert from the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Less than one year ago, Puerto Rico enacted a landmark animal protection law, based in part on a set of model laws drafted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. From the ALDF action alert page.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Well, a dog named Chaser and her beloved owner “Pop-pop” are challenging what science thinks about dogs and language with a vocabulary of 1000 words! Yasha paved the way for what would later happen with Chaser, as Yasha often would take part in many classroom behavioral experiments. Sometimes, they might even know too much!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. There is always more to learn, more to explore, and it appears that in some areas we are just starting to know what we don’t know (female bird song!).

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2009

They don't have collars made from animals. But they also haven't made a moral choice to not use animals. However, there's a context here, and that context is that the message is coming from an organization that focuses on the science angle of our use of sentient nonhumans (i.e., animals in research, in schools or as food).

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Animal Person

JULY 15, 2009

Moving people along is more art than science, and for some people it's far more emotion-based than logic-based. In my experience, knowing your audience and tailoring your approach (but not the substance of your message), is what converts people to veganism. when they're ready.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

This was the local name meaning “ugly” used for these primates by the people of the Gonder area in northern Ethiopia when the German naturalist Rüppell “discovered” this species for science in the 1830’s. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. A harem male grooms one of his females. Photo by Adam Riley. Photo by Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

Sounds a bit like some weird Nazi eugenics experiment to me, but I guess it is just science. Biologists – or as Ze Frank would say, the Science Hippies – call this ecological segregation (e.g.,

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Keith has not only been my favorite Philosophy professor that I have studied under during the course of my college experience, but my favorite professor in general. When I came across Philosophy, I immediately saw that it was the tree from which the branch of science had grown.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

A range of animals come to satisfy their need for salt or the soothing effects of the clay along the river banks of the region. The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Volunteers are one of the most important aspects to the project.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2012

Knowledge is more likely to be shared via shared experience than the exchange of data, though both happen. Experiments had been done which involved strapping magnets to the heads of homing pigeons to see if you could confuse them. I was also eventually to learn that Efe do not have an uncanny built in sense of direction.

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Critter News

JULY 7, 2009

This particular animal research controversy is occurring in New South Wales (Australia). Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. From the online Sydney Morning Herald.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

While some people never overcome this vestigial aversion to sour and bitter sensations, this innate prejudice can be overturned with experience, becoming acquired tastes we learn to enjoy just as much as the more dependable, uncomplicated pleasures of sweetness, salt, and fat.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Having puppies isn’t a fun science experiment. About the Author: Jane is an animal lover, and doesn’t turn away any animal that needs help. By neutering your dog, you completely eliminate the risk of testicular infection and dramatically reduce the risk of anal gland problems. Reduced Costs and Stress.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2010

If a person is in a discipline in which he or she is attempting to understand a culture or wants to experience a culture, vegetarianism is nearly impossible. So, how you would respond a person like me who cares for animal welfare, consciously stays away from the worse meat he can, and eats it mostly for cultural reasons.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2023

Here is the result of the first few websites that a Google search brought up: A-Z animals : Not included in the top 10 The Mysterious World : Included and taking the No. Group patterns of behavior were interpreted as reflections of normal responses to novel situations in the birds’ realm of experience with conspecifics.”

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I know how intense some birders can be), I can tell you from experience that there are some exquisite, stunning odonates flying around there. Damselflies and dragonflies are predators, sometimes called the most successful predators in the animal world. William Haber is from the United States, receiving his Ph.D. forest clearings!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

You may have already read The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us by Richard O. Videos, like the illustrations and diagrams included in the book, help make literature about science, especially theoretical science, more accessible to us non-scientists.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 9, 2009

When I saw the Live Science article about dogs being as smart as 2-year-old kids I knew that if there were any talk of ranking, my beloved greyhounds would be at the less-desirable end of the list (not from personal experience, but from reputation), and I also knew that there would be a whiff of speciesism.

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