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. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
So, here we go… Fighting in Iraq has been affecting starlings. But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. Researchers are wondering if the die-off might spread to other birds or even fish.
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 12, 2010
Some 119 pigs were used in the research at the Government's military research laboratory Porton Down, near Salisbury, between 2006 and 2009. The tests "saved many lives" in Iraq and Afghanistan due to improvements in post-traumatic techniques, junior defence minister Quentin Davies said.
Critter News
MARCH 6, 2009
Puerto Rico is eager to rid itself of the estimated 2,000 patas and rhesus monkeys that have taken a toll on wildlife and agriculture in the Lajas Valley since escaping from nearby research centers 30 years ago. "We I am no fan of zoos, especially in an unstable country like Iraq. We will give them all the monkeys they want," said Sgt.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.” and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. The Select Bibliography, 13 pages of books and articles consulted and researched, is excellent but limited in that it does not include online references.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2018
government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand). The skins were invaluable tools for ornithological, ecological, environmental research. The hope was that they would be recovered with the tags attached. Frustrated with the U.S.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
His work in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey remains inspirational to researchers throughout the region. Richard Porter already authored the Birds of the Middle East and has been active in the conservation of birds throughout the Middle East region since the 1960s.
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