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40 Ways to Help Lab Animals

Critter News

This rapidly growing site is to be a global resource on alternative methods, the 3Rs (replacement, reduction, and refinement), animal ethics, and animal care, with hyperlinks to related Web sites and databases. Tags: animal experimentation animal research activism animal rights medical research. Check it out at www.jhsph.edu/~altweb.

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Water Worries—How We're Drugging Other Species

Animal Ethics

Traces of analgesics, antidepressants, antibiotics, antihistamines, anti-hypertension drugs, anti-seizure medications, and birth control hormones are turning up in the Nation's municipally-delivered drinking water and also in our rivers, lakes, and streams. Today, people have to worry about much more than fluoride in their water.

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On the Freezing of Birds

Animal Person

It took a full day to locate the origin of the meeping of the first one (aptly named The Meeper), but after that it was pretty easy to catch them (in a propped up strainer on a cushion of towels) and put them in a safe place until they were all collected and ready to reunite with their mom.