Critter News

APRIL 24, 2012

The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected. Beef cattle are raised in nearly every California county. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy hasn’t been found in U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

This week, a new study was published about Sparrows in Nebraska, that in some ways resembles the study by Bumpus and may well be a better example of Natural Selection in birds. The new study is about Cliff Swallows ( Petrochelidon pyrrhonota ) in southwestern Nebraska. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

photo by Cyndi Routledge He called the Platte wetlands restoration project “a crown jewel for Nebraska.” Ask the proposing states to follow Nebraska’s example, to let them, and their big, desperately imperiled white cousins, alone. In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

That animal product is human breast milk. Human breast milk is a near perfect food for human newborns and infants. 105-6) Dr. Spock is not alone in his endorsement of breast-feeding human infants. There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas. The answer is "Yes."

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