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Is Medical Research on Animals REALLY the Only Way?

Critter News

I responded to a post on animalblog that cited a recent article in the journal "Proceedings" of the National Academy of Sciences. Tags: animal experimentation medical research monkeys. It’s just a question of WILL.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

10,000 Birds

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Third, that is just an awful lot of excrement. ” You just can’t have both.

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