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Welsh Report Shows Increased Animal Research at Cardiff University

Critter News

Here's an article about an increase in animal experiments at Cardiff University in Wales. 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.

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

10,000 Birds

These are extremely detailed, covering distribution, behavior, and plumage by age and gender (when relevant) and comparisons with other species in and external to the group. Mentorship is an essential part of the birding experience, and it needs to be encouraged. Just go to the boldfaced page number. Authors George L.

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Gardner Williams (1895-1972) on Wronging Animals

Animal Ethics

That is, they contribute to increasing, in the long run, the quantity of satisfaction which an individual experiences. The interests in nourishment and in gustatory pleasure lead man to kill and eat cattle, fish, and fowl. This cuts down on the long-range satisfactions of the cattle, the fish, and the fowl.

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Birding Shanghai in August 2023

10,000 Birds

As you can tell from this post starting with leaf warblers, the ornithological equivalent of watching paint dry (ok, a bit unfair and not really a good comparison anyway, but hey, write your own blog if you do not like mine). Even in my compound, they seem to have quite a stable presence now.

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