Critter News

JUNE 12, 2010

But universities and scientists are not always there working for pure learning or the improvement of humanity. Many medical schools and teaching hospitals set up "technology transfer" offices to help in this activity and capitalize on faculty discoveries. There may be a business component there as well.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 10, 2012

There are also tales of dogs who weren’t specially trained, but who turned out to have skills that helped their humans in unexpected ways! Be sure to check out Lisa Rogak’s other great book, The Dogs of War, which takes a look into the lives of military dogs.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 8, 2011

Rather, he was a handy cat, one who could escape from all cages; one who could rouse his humans from a deep sleep as he played with anything and everything they dared to leave on the kitchen counter; one who could even, despite all odds, teach dog-only hearts to open up and love the newest member of their family. I’m Here too!”

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2011

It might surprise you to learn that according to the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association approximately 10% to %15 of dogs are prone to developing food allergies or food intolerance before they reach the age of 4. Food allergies and food intolerances affect our pets much the same way they strike humans.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

Dr Smith was later in charge of medical services in the Crimea but had a feud with Florence Nightingale and was severely criticized for mismanagement, yet despite this he was knighted in 1859. This was the first book on the birds of KwaZulu-Natal. They discovered Gurney’s Sugarbird during their time in South Africa.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How did you come up with the idea for the book? The book is darkly funny. photo by John Huba.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

of Army Medical Department 1815-1851. Apparently, some bird photographers think that any human artifacts shown on a bird photo immediately spoil the whole photo. In providing this information, they quote extensively from an ornithology book that was published 3 years before I was born (and I am not a young man).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

Europe and Canada outlawed using hormones on dairy cows because of such human and animal health concerns. Miller on a published article in Nature Biotechnology and on a book chapter several years before the published article in Nature Biotechnology. Increasing rBST milk would just move food production in the wrong direction.

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Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

It's a book about societal collapses resulting from poor decisions about the environment, resource-use, etc. And those scientists are humans with the same motivations and agendas as any other human. Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics medical research science. Science does not solve everything.

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2009

I've decided to quit my book club, which I dearly love, because of a member who works in medical research and supports animal experimentation. I think the time has come for me to leave the book club. These are core issues to me that are an integral part to who I am as a human being. but not with this.

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