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Tensions Mount over University of Florida Animal Research

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Wonder if that could get activists into trouble under AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.) Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research. This is a long article from the Gainesville Sun.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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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. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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These vast and rugged lands of savanna, hills, gorges and rivers still protect some of Ethiopia’s largest extant herds of typical African savanna game, including African Elephant, African Buffalo, Giraffe, Lion, Leopard, African Wild Dog and numerous species of grazers. Yellow-billed Stork. Mursi woman. A Mursi woman in full regalia.

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University of Washington Allows Primate to Starve to Death

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This is why I avoid Games Night at some acquaintances.' A monkey allowed to starve to death was just one of the complaints noted in a U.S. This incident can be traced to a failure to weigh the animal at regular intervals. Tags: animal research University of Washington USDA. From the student newspaper The Daily.

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