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Vast Majority of Medical Schools Do NOT Use Animals To Teach Surgery

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Only one of the interesting points in this opinion piece on animal research by Lee Schneider on the Huffington Post. According to PCRM, the schools are Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga campus.

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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan, China in 2017

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For example, a researcher and presumed ornithologist set out with two hypotheses related to the Ashy Drongo (and another drongo species) and wrote a paper about it. While I would not want to encourage anyone to put birds in cages, it is interesting to read about the experience of somebody breeding Black-headed Sibias in captivity.

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Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould

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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). A little late, but very well done.

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The Traveling Birder

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Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. Lifers included Cape May, Tennessee, Blackburnian, Chestnut-sided, Blackpoll, Kentucky, Canada, and Blue-winged warblers. Geography is destiny. They include: Southern Florida , with stops at places such as J.