Critter News

OCTOBER 8, 2009

It's in response to the arrest of Yale animal technician Raymond Clark for the murder of Annie Le, but makes some important points about animal research. There's a reason for the security that keeps Beagle burn videos from surfacing like egg farm videos. This is a great short column by Martha Rosenberg. For how many years?

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Animal Research Research Egg Farm Animal 100

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JULY 23, 2014

People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. We don’t have monkeys, or wildebeest, or salmon here. In many ways, that is exactly what happened.

New Zealand 161

New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

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MARCH 20, 2023

A very recent one (2023) involving Elliot’s Laughingthrush follows the same trend: “Asian Koel removes nestlings of Elliot’s Laughingthrush from their nest: farming or retaliatory mafia behavior? Maybe the species has shrunk in the past few decades. End of advertisement.

Birds 147

Birds Mammals St. Louis Monkeys 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

For good reasons the paths are not open if there are no flowers, and this limits visitors to a busy mountain road, although there is a small orchid and butterfly farm on the road up. Also in the Crocker Ranges, this site is probably a miss for non-birders if the massive Rafflesia flowers are not, well, flowering.

Birds 183

Birds Bats Elephants Family 183