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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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Mice/rats in your house or business? ” Most people don’t understand what they’re doing when they use rat poison. Support and follow Raptors Are The Solution ( RATS ), a Berkely, CA group whose goal is to get all poisonous rodenticides off the shelves. Call the pest control company. Alert: they’re lying. What to do?

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Can we get a campaign going to shut down SeaQuest

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I am posting this here because they had an exhibit of skinny pigs billed as “African naked mole rats.” I am attaching a news article below, but SeaQuest has locations across the country and documented issues at all of them. I visited an “aquarium” for a work matter and was appalled by what I saw. The skinny pigs had no enclosures.

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For the Birds: Midway Atoll Mouse Eradication and NEPA

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Midway, which was once a military facility, has long had mice and it once had rats, though they were eradicated in 1996. On March 21, 2018, FWS released a 198-page document entitled “ Midway Seabird Protection Project — Draft Environmental Assessment.” There is also a website with additional information.

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Military Used Pigs in Brain Injury Research

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For an 11-month period that ended in December, researchers subjected pigs and rats to about 200 blasts, according to Pentagon documents and interviews. Tags: rats animal experimentation military pigs. The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S.

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Come@Me: Invasive Species Can Be Awesome

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Especially when there are some ‘invasive’ species, like the parrots, that seem to bring little documented harm and a great deal of joy to observers. We all hate Mute Swans too, the more so because their aggressive nature makes their graceful aesthetic and Valentine-card public image seem hypocritical.

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Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction–A Review

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In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S. All the while, he is observing, documenting, practically living with the cahows when they return to Bermuda.

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Review: The Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson

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But perhaps such morals would be the hardest to discover and document. Peterson’s descriptions of research are stronger than his anecdotes (I particularly enjoyed the laughing rats and the research into whether Western Scrub Jays have a concept of ‘planning for the future’ involved in their caching behavior.)

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