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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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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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EPA Wants to Rely Less on Animal Testing

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Environmental Protection Agency is reducing its reliance on animal testing to assess human risk of chemical toxicity and will instead focus more heavily on the tools made possible by advances in molecular biology, genomics and computational modeling. For a long time there will be a need for animal testing," he said.

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On the threshold of flight

10,000 Birds

It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once. Originally the land was occupied by plantish things, but they formed detritus, so some animals crawled from the aquatic habitat in which they had diversified to eat the detritus. Soon after carnivores that could hunt on land evolved, things like ancestral centipedes.

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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" However, various lines of scientific & behavioral research show that reptiles not only feel pain & experience stress the same way mammals & birds do, but that they are also likely capable of a range of emotions including anxiety, distress, excitement, fear, frustration, pain, stress, and suffering.

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BBS Giveaway – Pet Fire Safety Awareness

4 The Love Of Animals

To spread awareness about this important topic, we here at BestBullySticks have partnered with the great folks at 4 The Love of Animals to host a giveaway! With a little bit of research and practice, you can have your plan down pat in an afternoon. Evacuation Strategies. Planning for emergencies doesn’t have to be difficult.

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National Justice for Animals Week

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From the better late then never category, the ALDF is having a National Justice for Animals Week to raise awareness about animal abuse. Adam was rescued by an 11-year-old boy who also later identified the girls who committed the crime, allowing them to be charged with felony animal cruelty.

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Four wings good two wings better?

10,000 Birds

This is an idea that has been around for more than a century, to which recent research has given considerable support. How can you get an animal that has half-wings, wings that don’t provide for flight, but that might also be not as good as forelimbs for normal forelimb functions?

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