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Artificial intelligence in veterinary medicine: What are the ethical and legal implications?

AVMA News

by Dr. Dr. Eli Cohen, a clinical professor of diagnostic imaging at the North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine. AVMA Axon recently debuted the webinar "Do No Harm: Ethical and Legal Implications of A.I."

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Research Animals Rescued from North Carolina Lab

Critter News

An enormous victory was achieved for animals this week when nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats were rescued from a North Carolina animal testing facility that closed its doors after an undercover investigation revealed apparent abuse of the animals by workers at the facility.

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Snowy Owl Mania!

10,000 Birds

Not all interactions between humans and Snowy Owls are bad. John Haas has a post about what happens when a Snowy Owl can’t make it on its own and is helped by some kind humans. We here at 10,000 Birds shared some photos and video that shows that Snowy Owls can be stressed by more than just humans.

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Tails From the Gulf Stream

10,000 Birds

The Gulf Stream lies between 20-40 miles off the North Carolina coast, and to the unpracticed eye it looks scarcely different that the expanse of blue water it courses through. These three aspects combine to produce one of the most productive spots in the North Atlantic, a place where birds and fish and marine mammals congregate.

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A Guide to Parking Lot Birds of the Southeast

10,000 Birds

Every part of the world has it’s suite of parking lot staples, those urbanish species that seem to prefer to linger about humanity subsisting in no small amount to the magnanimity, or more likely the laziness, of humankind. Here in the non-Floridian Southeast we have sparrows and starlings and pigeons.

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Junco Mashup

10,000 Birds

The bird was immediately apparent to be as such largely because a similar bird has been visiting a feeder, and well-photographed, in Henderson County in western North Carolina for the last three winters. And once you feel comfortable tackling winter sparrow intergrades, well, then I can introduce you to the really weird stuff.

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Answer to the Poop Week Quiz

10,000 Birds

Cloacal Kiss is the name of a “metal, grindcore, experimental&# musical group from North Carolina. Human congenital disorder. — Answer, this is Sirenomelia, or Mermaid Syndrome, where a human is born with legs fused together. Sometimes a baby has a cloaca or vent instead of genitalia.