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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation. Tags: animal experimentation puerto rico animal research primates medical research.

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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

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We also try to re-nest uninjured baby birds so we don’t interfere with a bird’s breeding cycle. Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree. It needs to be properly medicated and triaged. Find a box.

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Birding the Kruger Park (4): Letaba area

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Apologies – I have not taken my anti-cynicism medication for a while now, and it starts to show). Let’s hope it can find some relatively unfragmented habitat for breeding – studies show that the failure rate of nests is much higher in fragmented habitats. Or at least an “angry-looking bird” ( source ).

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Disaster Preparedness Plan May Save Your Pet’s Life

4 The Love Of Animals

. - Folder with list of types of vaccination records & medical history to get from vet. Make sure to include a pre-signed medical treatment authorization in your kit. Make sure you ask if they have any limitations on the number, size, species or breeds they allow. Some dog breeds (e.g. are not allowed.

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Must-Have Apps for the Avid Pet Lover

4 The Love Of Animals

You can search by breed, age, gender, and size, so you can easily narrow down to animals that are more likely to fit with your home and family. If you experience bugs, there are several similar apps for Android and iPhone, and most have access to the same database. Cost: free).

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? In other words, the perception of pain is affected. And of course, the reality that all of this involves using sentient nonhumans when that's unnecessary isn't even considered.