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Purina donates $1M to AVMF’s charitable care grant program

AVMA News

Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets announced the launch of its Pro Plan Veterinary Support Mission on January 15 at the 2024 Veterinary Meeting & Expo (VMX) in Orlando, Florida.

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University of Florida Must Relinguish Primate Records

Critter News

An Alachua County Circuit Court judge has ordered the University of Florida to provide an animal rights activist with records on primates involved in research. This is good news, at least in my opinion. Full article in the Gainesville Sun. Camille Marino of Wildwood, who founded the group Negotiation is Over, received the records last week.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth Weekend of 2012)

10,000 Birds

Speaking of Birdchasers, Rob Fergus may not be a medical doctor, but his prescribed 20 Bird Minimum Daily Requirement seems to be a sure cure for what ails most of us. Then again, maybe like me you simply enjoy hearing about the avian observations of others even when you can’t make time for your own bird chases.

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Birding Flagstaff: A Green Detour

10,000 Birds

Being from southern Florida, the thought of birding through verdant alpine meadows and rich pine forest with snow-capped peaks as a backdrop really appealed to me. While exploring Flagstaff, I found a pair of these birds nesting near the Flagstaff Medical Center in a patch of forest.

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On the Land Grant University Meat Problem

Animal Person

I look forward to meeting RPA's Florida members who are able to attend! . Instead, our LGUs teach the false ancient beliefs that maintain meat -- including dairy, fish, eggs, and feed crops -- as an institution. . Our most insidious institution -- as my talk in Miami in 10 days (August 29th) will explain!

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump. I thought, “Finally!

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Lost Among the Birds: A Review of a Big Year Book

10,000 Birds

And, the birds and birding trips to Arizona, Florida, California, the waters of North Carolina, and Alaska—always back to Alaska—start accumulating. Supporting characters like Jay Lehman and Chris Hitt, big year birders present and past, start making more frequent appearances.

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