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40 Ways to Help Lab Animals

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Thanks to Patty at Animal Rights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. There are many excellent books on issues related to animal research. Know Your Adversary Part of being an effective activist on animal research issues is knowing the arguments in support of animal research.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

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In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare."

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

Dun’s innovations included advertising in gardening magazines, growing mailing lists, and seasonal catalogs. Readers are referred to the text itself for citations of historical periodicals such Bird-Lore, the magazine that preceded Audubon magazine. This is too bad. The writers have created a good book.

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Should the Military Force Protect the Environment?

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Or, as resources grow scarcer, one nation's overexploitation of a forest or river could lead to dire consequences for other countries. In some parts of Africa, rangers receive military training and equipment to defend animals (and themselves) from poachers in pursuit of elephants, rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered species.

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Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction–A Review

10,000 Birds

Articles on the Bermuda petrel have appeared in scientific journals and popular birding magazines, and Wingate has been the subject of articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and has received the Linnaean Society’s of New York prestigious Eisenmann medal. This very personal story might seem out of place in a bird book.

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What are the Costs of Changing Bird Names?

10,000 Birds

An op-ed in the Washington Post by Gabriel Foley and Jordan Rutter is a fine summary of the arguments, and there is a good background article at Birdwatching magazine. The field guides and online resources are all in agreement and I am aware of no other broadly used common names for that bird. The species was named after John P.

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How do bird species compete with each other?

10,000 Birds

We see interrelationships between plants, animals, and other features of a biological system that can be very complex and in various ways make sense. Here it is in graphic form: Original Caption from Science Magazine: Duckworth et al. (4) Ecology is amazing.

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