Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
But the seal industry doesn't care. Dr. Philippe Pibarot has been studying seal heart valves to see if they might be a better transplant option for humans than those from cows or pigs, believing they may be more durable than the other animal tissue. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 14, 2010
In this week’s podcast ending February 13, 2010: **Britain’s Ministry of Defense defends its use of pigs as subjects in explosives testing; **an elephant expert argues for the closing of the elephant exhibit at the Toronto Zoo; **the State of Hawaii seeks to toughen penalties for dog fighting; **Animal rights groups protest the Canadian seal hunt in (..)
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Animal Person
MAY 17, 2009
Is what he did like hunting? Like clubbing a seal to death? If they were pigs, would anyone care? Is fighting and killing dogs the same thing? Is Vick a special kind of creep for what he did? Like skinning a mink? Like "producing" foie gras? Like eating foie gras? Is it the dogs that are at issue?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
I think every naturalist in the United States knows the outlines of this urban tale: The pristine marshes of New Jersey are poisoned by pollution, toxic waste, pig farms, and probably every single way in which human beings can destroy the environment. The Nature of the Meadowlands is a celebration of an environmental success story.
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