Breeding Farming Raised Research 
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2022
campus gardens – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre, located 3 km east of the town of Turrialba. There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Poor researchers Nicola Coumi and Rob Slotow failed to find anything particularly interesting about vigilance in Bronze Mannikin groups. I am sure it has some value, but would I really want to spend a few months or even years on “Ticks on Crested Francolins and on the vegetation on a farm in Limpopo Province, South Africa “ ?
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10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. But for a while one constant in his life was his grandfather’s farm, a far-off stretch of land in Comanche County, Texas. He came for the hawks.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
A lovely looking and distinctive sounding bird (so they say, I sadly have not seen one…yet), the Kirtland’s Warbler can only be found during its breeding season in Jack Pine forests 5 to 20 years old in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Previously, even researchers had problems getting access to nesting Kirtland’s Warblers.
Animal Ethics
JULY 15, 2009
We can thank factory farming for yet another antibiotic-resistant supergerm: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). Smith studied two large Midwestern hog farms and found ST398, the virulent strain of MRSA, in 45 percent of farmers and 49 percent of hogs. All evidence points to factory farms. We've seen this with E.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Marc Hauser, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, recently opened his own such research lab and has 1,000 dogs lined up as subjects. In some cases, their research suggests that our pets are manipulating us rather than welling up with human-like feeling. Other facilities are operating in the U.S. and Europe.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Some of the lazier Common Moorhens apparently try to pass the arduous work of raising their chicks on to other species -a paper describes how Little Bitterns are utilized as surrogate parents. However, the authors call this a “new breeding tactic”, which seems to mix up the discovery of the tactic with the use of the tactic.
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