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Welsh Report Shows Increased Animal Research at Cardiff University

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In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia. Tags: universities animal experimentation UK animal research wales cardiff university.

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Unintended Consequences of Predator Control

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The intent was to protect birds by removing one of their predators: cats. It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds. What happened was something that hurt the birds worse.

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

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In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.). There was a poster in the lunch room with four cute animals (a dog, cat, rabbit and something else.)

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Adopt-a-Pet.com Guest Post

4 The Love Of Animals

In addition to dogs and cats, we now feature all kinds of pets for adoption, including rabbits, farm animals, ferrets, hamsters and other small animals, horses, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and even fish. For more information visit this page [link].

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