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Dogtown: So Far So Good

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My hands-on experience is with small mammals/critters and cats. Tags: dogtown dogs Best Friends. I learned a lot from this episode. I don't know much about dogs other than what I read. However, this episode featuring Noche just emphasizes my view that dogs should not be euthanized for being food-aggressive alone.

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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. These chimps are healthy and well-fed. But chimpanzees can abstract. They have certainly committed no crimes.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

Jentsch talks about the cost ("it's hard to put a price tag on") of protecting those like him, so we definitely know that the tactics of those who seek to defend animals are working on one level (economic harm, though once removed at least in this situation). Then he and the interviewer describe some of the experiments.

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet.

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

I do think that in my lifetime greyhound racing will end, circuses will be animal-free, elephants and marine mammals won't be in zoos, and fur might even be banned. Tags: Activism Language. The whole development of society must be slow and continuous, the changes incremental. ( What do you think?