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Artificial intelligence in veterinary medicine: What are the ethical and legal implications?

AVMA News

AVMA Axon recently debuted the webinar "Do No Harm: Ethical and Legal Implications of A.I." by Dr. Dr. Eli Cohen, a clinical professor of diagnostic imaging at the North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine.

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Research Animals Rescued from North Carolina Lab

Critter News

An enormous victory was achieved for animals this week when nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats were rescued from a North Carolina animal testing facility that closed its doors after an undercover investigation revealed apparent abuse of the animals by workers at the facility. Their investigations produce results. From the PR Newswire.

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Birding for the Curious: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

He is a current member of the North Carolina Bird Records Committee and an eBird coordinator for North Carolina. Finding owls is the occasion to discuss the ethics of playback. Nate Swick is a contributor to 10,000 Birds, American Birding Association (ABA) blog editor and event leader, and environmental educator.

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Do Snowy Owls really belong in genus Bubo?

10,000 Birds

Over the past two weeks, an incursion of Snowy Owls ( Bubo scandiacus ) has spread rapidly across the Great Lakes region and down the Atlantic Coast, as far south as North Carolina. The haunting image above is from another year, by Kate Ter Haar.). We may learn more tomorrow, and that would be exciting.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It would love to read more about the ethical considerations that go into using playback for research purposes and how federal rules against playback affect research design. The authors themselves, Barbara Ballentine and Jeremy Hyman, are professors at Western Carolina University, a state university in Cullowhee, North Carolina.

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Empty Cages

Animal Ethics

Here is a website that contains much useful information about animal ethics. I'm not sure what relation it bears to Tom Regan, the philosopher from North Carolina State University. It appears to be organized around Regan's book Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights.