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A Trip to an Animal Lab

Critter News

They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.). But when I got closer, I read, "Animal research opens minds." It was a jarring moment.

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When birds attack!

10,000 Birds

I particularly enjoyed the story involving the Satyr Tragophan , not because I enjoy painful stories of high medical bills so much as if you are going to come a cropper of a bird it may as well be a good looking one (as with birding with life in general really). A young bird contemplates a future of attacking humans in a funny field.