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The Gas Station Bird

10,000 Birds

Here’s a quote about bird lungs from Britannica: “Himalayan geese have been observed not only to fly over human climbers struggling to reach the top of Mount Everest, but to honk as they do so.” In Mississippi you can own an ocelot, but not a wolverine. Now imagine you have the lungs of a bird. Are we fed up yet?

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Student Researcher Says "Hooray for Animal Research"

Critter News

This kid is a biochem major at the University of Southern Mississippi. He's helping to investigate possible drug cures for obesity. Freeman says that the most difficult thing he has encountered so far in his research comes not from the lab, but from people’s attitudes about animal testing. Does it benefit the animals?