Critter News

APRIL 18, 2010

Pippin told me there's a good reason all the other 150-plus medical schools in the country don't use animals in surgical education: There are better ways to teach surgery. Surgical simulators and supervised operating room experience work just fine.

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Medical Tennessee Animal Research Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.

Montana 166

Montana Geese Blackbirds Canada 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. I don’t really know – from my own experience with school bullies or from Jack London’s novels? How did I know that?

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 115

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Other wildlife-dependent recreation on national wildlife refuges includes wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation. The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears. The Service’s report Banking on Nature shows that refuges pump $2.4

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 145

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope.

Michigan 240

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 240

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 259

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 225

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. For me, this book hit a lot of checkmarks, a lot of interests.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 121

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Reading thousand-word long posts in black type on a plain white screen with nothing interesting to look at isn't exactly a satisfying sensory experience. I understand the impulse to do " something " that alters the number of animals created to be used and killed and the suffering of the ones created. So I failed.

Vegan 100

Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

They pointed out the puncture wounds, likely infected with bacteria that could quickly kill. There’s an imperative to get this message across to cat people who, like me, can be educated to value wild lives as much as we value the lives of our four-legged family members. They simply helped me with my bird. It’s tribal and familial.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 218

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I say "if you know someone" because this isn't a book I'd recommend to vegans for their vegan education efforts. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. Killing an animal oneself is more often than not a way to forget the problem while pretending to remember. Not great, but good.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

Elizabeth’s experience and ingenuity, for example, can be seen in her lithograph of Langsdorff’s Aracari; there was only a single specimen in a German collection and its tail was mutilated, so she obscured the tail in her plate by placing it behind a large leaf (pp. 168-168).

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Australia Birds Europe Collecting 202