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Herpetology Vs. Ornithology

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Ornithology By Corey • March 2, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share If you like science and comic strips you definitely want to read xkcd. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! If you are sensitive to mildly bad language don’t click the link.

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California's Ag Industry Worried that State Committee will Focus on "Emotion"

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There is definitely a new tide in California, post Proposition 2. My concern is that decisions, laws, regulations, what have you may be based on emotion rather than on sound science, solid data and good facts,” said Jim Bogart, president and general counsel for the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California, Salinas.

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Read an Analysis of Slate's Animal Research Series

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I think that people who are pro-animal research would come away with something to ponder, definitely the sense that this is not a pretty or sanitized practice. Tags: animal experimentation animal research medical research. Animal Person points out this comment made by Daniel Engber, the author. Bring on the PETA hotties!

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

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The veracity of this statement hinges on Scott's definition of "inhumane," and that definition must be very, very restricted, and clearly unrelated to the realities of our modern factory farm system. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. What's all this about emotion, anyway?

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Serbia self-drive birding tour planning

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He enjoys combining his passion for birds with computer science background to model nocturnal bird migration. eBird is a definite must to keep your list up to date, with many useful tools such as target ebird.org/targets. 10000birds.com/tag/serbia ). Search for species (or subspecies) endemic to the area visited.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

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Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. If birds don’t want to be handled, then they definitely didn’t want to be weighed. As a group we tagged and weighed more than 500 terns, terns that can be recaptured in the future to teach us humans more about the dynamics of the colony.

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Dogs as Smart as 2-yr-old Kids

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When I saw the Live Science article about dogs being as smart as 2-year-old kids I knew that if there were any talk of ranking, my beloved greyhounds would be at the less-desirable end of the list (not from personal experience, but from reputation), and I also knew that there would be a whiff of speciesism. Do you think this helps dogs?