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AVMA News
MARCH 21, 2023
The AVMA offered sessions at the 2023 WVC Annual Conference as part of a year-old partnership with Viticus Group, the organization that hosts WVC.
VMX 2023 draws a crowd for 40th anniversary
AVMA News
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Several new studies were unveiled at @the_NAVC Veterinary Meeting & Expo this January in Orlando, Florida, including research identifying 30 different bacterial groups in the fecal microbiome of domestic cats and a survey on dog owners’ awareness of osteoarthritis.
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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.
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Some Groups that Still Support Animal Research
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
Komen Foundation *British Heart Foundation *World Cancer Research Fund I can't tell you all what I do for a living because it's kind of sensitive, but let's just say that my unit has had dealings with Susan G. Tags: animal research medical research. Komen and they are a pretty arrogant, corporate bunch (just an FYI!).
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Research and Birding at Elkhorn Slough
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2017
I asked Virginia Guhin, Education Programs Coordinator of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (ES NERR). The impressive trail network makes the ecosystem accessible not only to birders and walkers, but also school groups of all ages and sizes. “What’s that?”
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Birding Yibin, Sichuan
10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2023
It seems some Chinese researchers had an interesting hypothesis – maybe cleaning up a nest (“nest sanitation” to the ornithologists) would also make it easier for the parasitized bird to eject an egg laid by a parasitizing cuckoo. In one group, they added a blue egg to their nests. stresses the importance of order.
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Black-necked Stilts at Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2016
For day 2 of the conference, we headed out to the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve to look at some in-progress projects. After leaving the group, I pulled into a boat launch with a great view of a marshy, mud flat area near the beach. Luckily for me, there was time afterwards for a little birding.
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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2023
It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK. Schulman, 2023.
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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).
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Weekend Protest Against the Oregon National Primate Research Center
Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Animal rights activists stretched a 60-foot banner across the Hawthorne Bridge {Saturday} morning targeting the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU. Stop Animal Exploitation Now, an Ohio-based animal rights group, recently ranked the lab at Oregon Health & Science University as the nation's sixth worst animal lab out of 44 others.
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Scientist Advocacy Group Oppose Some Animal Testing
Critter News
JANUARY 11, 2009
Here's a group I've never heard of. I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) These scientists are NOT an animal rights group. They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless.
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Another Fake Animal Welfare Group
Critter News
DECEMBER 9, 2009
I was browsing for some quotes when I came across this group - The National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA). Our members are pet owners, dog and cat clubs, obedience clubs and rescue groups as well as breeders, trainers, veterinarians, research scientists, farmers, fishermen, hunters and wildlife biologists.
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Out Birding to Help an Endemic Sparrow in Costa Rica
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2022
Fortunately, local researchers have been well aware of the dire need to learn about this species so it can be adequately protected. Past Birdathons organized by Paz and Ernesto have greatly helped research on migratory behavior of Cerulean and Golden-winged Warblers as well as field work with the Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow.
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Another Research Company Accused of Animal Mistreatment
Critter News
DECEMBER 2, 2010
Animal welfare watchdog group, Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), has released documents which, it claims, provide evidence that CRO MPI Research has been operating in violation of the US Animal Welfare Act. For the full story, go here to outsourcing-pharma.com.
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Air Canada Criticized for Transporting Research Monkeys
Critter News
JANUARY 24, 2011
The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Under pressure from animal rights groups and the public, many airlines have banned the practice.
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Sri Lanka Attempts to Establish Animal Research Guidelines
Critter News
JANUARY 25, 2010
Last Monday (January 18, 2010), this country reached a milestone with regard to animal research when a booklet on the ‘Guidelines for Ethics Review of Research Proposals Involving Animals in Sri Lanka’, was launched at a simple ceremony held at the Colombo Medical Faculty presided over by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Prof.
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Animal Researchers Promote Sob Stories
Critter News
OCTOBER 12, 2009
I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I would never advocate violence against a researcher. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. I had to stay in that group because she must be challenged.
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A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2021
There is also a research institute dedicated to wilderness: the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute is an interagency facility located at the University of Montana. It is the only federal research group dedicated to studies needed to manage the National Wilderness Preservation System.
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Leona Helmsley's Fortune Goes to Medical Research
Critter News
APRIL 23, 2009
Over $100 million went to medical research while about $1 million went to animal welfare causes. Originally, animal groups actually thought they’d get a huge piece of the estate because Leona Helmsley had supposedly wanted it that way. It’s more money for medical research. To human causes. I think that just sucks.
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Gulls of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: An Identification Guide
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2023
Yet, there is one group of birds where even I prefer photographs: gulls. The authors are among the foremost experts on this taxing group. Mars Muusse is a Dutch birder specializing in gulls and the founder of a famous gull identification website Gull Research Organization. Philippe J.
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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.
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Settlement Forces Animal Research Facilities to Disclose More
Critter News
JULY 6, 2009
Animal research facilities will be required to disclosee more information online about their experiments under a court settlement signed Wednesday by the Humane Society of the United States and the Agriculture Department. Tags: animal experimentation animal research humane society USDA medical research. From the LA Times.
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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research
Critter News
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. That's because of a little-known state law that requires government-run pounds to turn animals over to researchers if asked. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays.
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Are Kittiwakes Catholic?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2024
This led to the establishment of the Lowestoft Kittiwake Partnership (set up by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust, together with then RSPB, the council, business groups, community members and with the help of the local MP) which seeks to safeguard nesting birds while reducing conflict with businesses and the owners of buildings in the town.
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Exposing the Pharmaceutical Industry's Interest in Animal Research
Critter News
AUGUST 10, 2009
Big pharma is also involved in promoting animal research for its own benefit. It claims that it must research on animals in order to save people, but then charges such high costs for drugs to these same people that many, even in the rich country of the US, must forego them and risk their lives.
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British Center Working On Animal Replacement in Research?
Critter News
APRIL 4, 2009
The group is called NC3E (National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research). The Centre funds high-quality 3Rs research, organises workshops and symposia to disseminate and advance the 3Rs, and develops 3Rs information resources and guidelines. I just signed up for the e-newsletter.
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Birding Ruili, Yunnan
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2024
Recognizing its value for eco-tourism and biogeographical research, it is essential to conserve this magnificent bird. Some research topics seem a bit bizarre to me. This could hint at a solution for the struggling Chinese housing market – moving to a new apartment for each new child?
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Group Pursues Investigation of US Labs
Critter News
JUNE 4, 2009
researchers for allegedly filing fraudulent documents and performing nearly identical experimentation in violation of federal regulations, the organization said in a news release. The animal research industry is just as unregulated as Wall Street was before the current economic crisis," said Michael A. "The
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The Bird 10K Project
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2015
.” But here I’m using it because someone ELSE used it … the Bird 10K project is an effort to do the whole DNA thing they do on groups of species on the whole mess of 10K (or more) birds. … …The phylogeny of birds has been one of the most challenging vertebrate groups to decipher.
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238 Groups Seek Charges in Sheep Decompression Tests
Critter News
MARCH 19, 2010
The university stopped conducting the experiments last fall when it learned that it may have been violating state law, said Eric Sandgren, who oversees animal research at UW-Madison. The research is an effort to prevent "the bends," or injuries to divers as they ascend from deep water.
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European Union Screws Apes Used in Medical Research
Critter News
JUNE 4, 2009
Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers.
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Read an Analysis of Slate's Animal Research Series
Critter News
JUNE 9, 2009
Animal Person , someone who is clearly smarter than me, has a great analysis about the recent "Pepper" series in Slate about animal research. At least he didn't try to make me feel happy or warm and fuzzy about animal research. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.
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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Here are ten titles (it could have been more) selected for their uniqueness, excellence in writing and research, and giftability. Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions.
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Military Used Pigs in Brain Injury Research
Critter News
APRIL 7, 2009
Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury. They stopped after protests from animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Did you know this?
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Three Interesting Things
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2014
But researchers have now found evidence of a giant European bat that is plucking migrating birds out of the night sky. Several months ago, a group of bat researchers spent the night recording the sounds of a marshy Spanish forest. A group of researchers at the N.C. I’ve got a call in with the research team.
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How smart are parrots?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 21, 2014
Although parrots are generally assumed to have complex social groups, few studies have quantitatively examined these assumptions about parrot social structure. We critically assessed 4 assumptions about parrot socioecology using data from captive and wild groups of Monk Parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus). but not steep (,0.1).
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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Poor researchers Nicola Coumi and Rob Slotow failed to find anything particularly interesting about vigilance in Bronze Mannikin groups. Mind you – it is indeed a description, not a video, as the research was done in 1952. ” I wish I had this kind of optimism. They probably did not even have Twitter then.
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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
He also believes that we are living in an era of incredible scientific research, one in which new genetic technology and findings from diverse scientific disciplines have turned assumptions upside down, opened up new lines of thought, and provided answers, or at least probable answers, to many of our questions about why birds do the things they do.
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225 Shut up, Zebra Finch, you’re drunk
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2015
The findings of this research, as summarized by Discover Magazine : Zebra Finches are a good proxy for studying human speech. So researchers got a group of males good and liquored up (using juice with 6.5% So researchers got a group of males good and liquored up (using juice with 6.5%
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What the rings reveal
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
Then it’s a matter of doing a little research on the internet to find who rang the bird you saw, and then emailing the details of your sighting. Once again I did my internet research and managed to contact the person who had ringed the gull. With luck you will get a speedy reply, telling you the bird’s history.
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The Cry of the Curlew
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2024
Research by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has shown that predation by Foxes (of both eggs and chicks) is one of the most serious factors limiting the success of nesting Curlews. Her long beak indicates that she is a female An email to Tony Cross of the Mid Wales Ringing Group brought a speedy reply.
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Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton). And that is what recommends Steve N. Howell and Fabrice Schmitt: both of them are international bird tour leaders with WINGS.
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210 It Takes a Genetic Village: Saving the Florida Scrub-Jay
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 19, 2016
New research in Current Biology suggests that concentrating efforts on saving the remaining four large populations of the Florida Scrub-Jay isn’t all that’s needed. It turns out that smaller, scattered “satellite” groups of the bird are a source of needed genetic diversity when individuals leave the satellites and join the main populations.
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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing
Critter News
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
Environmental groups have called on Obama to get rid of the USDA's Dept. The USDA's extension service, APHIS' National Wildlife Research Center, and the Federal Government's General Accounting Office confirm that lethal controls used by WS do not unduly threaten the well-being of Statewide predator populations.
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