10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2012
Statue “Phillis Wheatley” by Meredith Bergmann, in Boston. If cats displace ferrets, then that probably means that birds are getting hit harder than rodents, and among birds, adult birds are getting hit harder than eggs or hatchlings. Which brings us to the present post, in which we ask “How many birds are there?”
Critter News
DECEMBER 27, 2010
Therefore, this Boston Globe article saddens me on both levels. Morse, corporate vice president for research model services at Charles River Laboratories, a Wilmington company that started by breeding lab rats in 1947 and has become a major supplier of rodents for research.
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 21, 2007
Just as lacewings and dragonflies keep mosquito populations in check, birds of prey eat rodents that can carry Lyme-bearing ticks, hantavirus, plague bacteria and other ills. Boston, Oct. Preservation of nature is not just an abstract aesthetic issue; our future depends on survival of things that fit. Epstein, M.D.
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