10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent focuses on this last question, but you might find yourself fascinated by the first two, which come early in the book but linger on in the imagination as author Danielle J. Whittaker’s research road is more serpentine than most academics. ” (p.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2012
Life Along the Delaware Bay: Cape May, Gateway to a Million Shorebirds , by Lawrence Niles, Joanna Burger, and Amanda Dey, is a book with a mission. The numbers, as detailed in this book, are alarming: the horseshoe crab harvest grew from less than 100,000 in 1992 to over 2.5 million in the late 1990’s.
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Critter News
OCTOBER 12, 2009
I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I would never advocate violence against a researcher. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. All of this BS by medical researchers must be challenged.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2021
Originally organized by structure and ecology, they have been reclassified according to relationships discovered by DNA research. The locator key section in the front of the book summarizes the shared characteristics of each mushroom type. The Fleshy Gilled Mushrooms (Agarics) section, 230 pages long, takes up over half the book.
Critter News
JUNE 12, 2010
Oftentimes, scientists seem to think that they just need to waive their PhDs and research projects in everyone's faces and we should all shut up and bow our heads to their great wisdom. Small biotech companies, many of them founded by university researchers to exploit their discoveries, proliferated rapidly.
Critter News
MARCH 21, 2012
And, in this day and age, do we really need to be stuck with this archaic and barbaric method of research? And how can one expect an animal with a human disease to react the way the human body does? It's essentially a crap shoot. Isn't there anything better?
Critter News
DECEMBER 21, 2008
So, I belong to this book group of 5 to 7 women. I do enjoy reading books and discussing them, but I have a quandary that I'm going to post about. She supports medical research on animals. One scene has the author entering the part of the hospital where the research animals are. She is a practicing Catholic.
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