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Physicians Committee Accuses University of Washington of Cruelty to Ferrets

Critter News

I had never heard of the use of ferrets in medical research though. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine claims these are unnecessary procedures, even though the ferrets are apparently anesthesized during the process. Dennis Mayock, a professor of pediatrics and medical director of the UW's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

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Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

10,000 Birds

which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. In short, the answer is that in the United States there are 20 billion birds at the end of the breeding and fledging season, which gets winnowed down to 10 billion by the following early spring.

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