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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

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The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.

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Humane Society Calls for Refuge for 9 Chimps

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This is the same place that was nailed by a Humane Society undercover investigation. Jeff Rowell, NIRC director, in an e-mail Wednesday} "said the nine remaining animals are being housed as a family group at the center with access to indoor-outdoor caging. Videos showed mistreatment of the lab animals. percent of our DNA.

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Kenny Glenn Abuses a Cat on Youtube

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By the way, the cat Dusty is with a vet pending the results of the investigation. He should NEVER be returned to that family. Tags: cat animal abuse animal cruelty kenny glenn us. He knew what he was doing and he is a sick piece of work. In fact, he's an excellent subject for a medical experiment.

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Weekend Adopt-a-thon for Joplin Tornado Pets

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Adoption fees are being waived for this event, and adoptable animals will be spayed/neutered, micro-chipped, vaccinated, and provided an ID tag free of charge. Approximately 300 others include those being boarded by families temporarily displaced and animals not yet ready for adoption, such as newborns and injured animals.

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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever , a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru.

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On "Food Inc."

Animal Person

it's that you don't know what's in your food or where it came from until you read the label, and then investigate beyond the label. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Film Language. Then they yank the heads, slit the throats, and de-feather and gut the chickens. If there's a lesson in Food Inc.,

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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Years of follow-up research conducted by one of Earthwatch’s principal investigators on the Tambopata Macaw project, Dr. Don Brightsmith, shows, however, that within the study area of the clay lick the birds tend to choose the soil with the highest sodium content over soils that are best for neutralizing toxins.

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