10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2011
Unfortunately, by the nature of the problem, the history of the young field is littered with examples of researchers allowing their subconscious biases — or worse, their conscious ones — to influence how they read the data. But perhaps such morals would be the hardest to discover and document.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2015
That’s what a group of French scientists recently examined— how birds react to drones , those remote-control robots increasingly flocking to our skies. The scientists hope this research will help guide ethical drone use around birds. After all, getting a true bird’s-eye view of avians affords all kinds of new research opportunities.)
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Critter News
APRIL 24, 2009
Animal welfare is a cost of doing business, not a moral obligation. However, research based on finishing pig group opportunity costs calculated on mortality, culls and feed conversion to target reveals startling results, with the best to worst sites varying by $11 per pig, with the widest variance per site at $34 per pig.
Animal Person
JULY 3, 2009
" Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals ," By Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, is the most recent (for me) book that debunks myths about the differences between human and nonhuman animals. Also, Bekoff and Pierce present a descriptive view, not a normative view of morality. There are no judgments.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. Nonetheless, they adjusted their behavior to allow Babyl to remain with the group. More research is needed, but initial studies by the Pine Street Foundation and others on using dogs for diagnosis are promising.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 30, 2007
It was the first lecture series of its kind in german speaking world organized by the members of the Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tierethik (literally “Interdisciplinary Study Group on Animal Ethics”) – an initiative of students. The results of the lectures are written down in this book.
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