10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Each year, millions are injured or killed when they slam into the sides of glass-sheathed buildings that reflect the sky. In the meantime, research into ways to make buildings safer for birds is ongoing. In the meantime, research into ways to make buildings safer for birds is ongoing. News bird collisions glass skyscraper'

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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. The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

I wish we could stop killing animals for reasons related to killing humans. From the BBC News. Some 119 pigs were used in the research at the Government's military research laboratory Porton Down, near Salisbury, between 2006 and 2009. Tags: UK animal research military pigs.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

California recently passed a law protecting animal researchers from animal activists. Ralph Freeman has killed cats and kittens in his laboratory at UC Berkeley with no benefit for humans for over twenty years. Tags: academic research ALF. In the short term at least, it's not working. This law changes NOTHING.

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Critter News

MARCH 10, 2009

Here's my response on medical research in general. I recently had a discussion about medical research using animals. This story on HIV research is one example. Many people feel very uncomfortable with animal testing, even scientists I think, which is why they often get so emotional and defensive about their research.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

South Africa is their steward and have been declared Special Nature Reserves under the South African Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act in 2003, which restricts activities on the islands to research and conservation management. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

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Critter News

JULY 11, 2009

From Veterinary News. An AVMA resolution was quietly killed this afternoon that would have revised its policy on use of random-source dogs and cats for research, testing and education. Tags: breeders animal research veterinarians animal shelters medical research avma.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

From National Geographic News : Cassin’s auklets are tiny diving seabirds that look like puffballs. Researchers are wondering if the die-off might spread to other birds or even fish. This is not something I needed to tell you but there is some new research. Since then the deaths haven’t stopped.

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Critter News

JUNE 14, 2010

After meeting with park managers on Wednesday, researchers were allowed to resume their field work. Tags: animal research montana. The cause of death later was determined to be respiratory arrest because the tranquilizer dart punctured the goat’s ribcage. However, a second male goat died after it was darted on Thursday.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2016

Considering that the average home experiences one to a few collisions each year, and given the sheer number of residences, the extrapolated effect on bird fatalities may be vast, perhaps dwarfing the number of birds killed by skyscrapers and large office buildings. This presents a conundrum for bird lovers, the authors admit.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Here is a sneak peek: Mark Thompson, the former host of Guinness World Records Primetime and Fox’s Emmy Awards red-carpet coverage, will co-host Shark Attack Experiment LIVE with Anna Gilligan, former Fox News Channel personality, from Rocky Bay, South Africa, commonly referred to as “Shark Park.” Time of day. Panic and fear.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

The good news is that Kirtland’s Warbler numbers are up, 1,828 singing males counted in the 2011 census. history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations. The others are the University of Michigan and University of Louisiana/New Iberia.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Tags: university research medical research.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. A fire might kill weak birds or, depending on the time of year, claim nestlings. Forest Service research biologist Vicki Saab studies, birds evolved alongside fire and flee in the face of conflagrations. So what do these facts mean for our wildlife?

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Investigative journalism by the Salt Lake Tribune, following-up on allegations levelled by PETA against the University of Utah's Comparative Medicine Center and the Cardiovascular Research & Training Institute laboratories revealed the two laboratories had used 190 dogs and cats in 2009, all obtained from shelters.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

On April 20th 2010, the world received news that eleven men working on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig died in an explosion on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. May 29, 2010 BP finally announces that Operation “Top Kill”, the effort to force drilling mud into the wellhead and seal it, has failed.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2010

An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. Tags: austria animal research pigs. The two-week experiment involving 29 pigs began Tuesday in the Western Austrian Alps.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Using the Birds of Peru field guide to identify a species of antshrike This course has three admirable objectives: To train the next generation of Neotropical bird researchers, both international and Peruvian, in efficient and standardised mist-netting, bird ringing/banding, and bird ageing skills.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2010

It is illegal in Wisconsin to kill an animal by means of decompression. 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. Tags: animal research sheep PETA university of madison-wisconsin.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

Originally organized by structure and ecology, they have been reclassified according to relationships discovered by DNA research. I imagine part of the allure of studying mushrooms is the tension between identifying the ones that will kill you (or at the very least give you a tummy ache) and the ones that will make your pizza or salad zing.

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2010

Only one of the interesting points in this opinion piece on animal research by Lee Schneider on the Huffington Post. Harvard and Yale don't see the need to use (or kill) animals, so why do those three schools still do it? They don't want to use the new methods because they're comfortable with the old methods.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “farm animals are regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) only when used in biomedical research, testing, teaching and exhibition. Farm animals used for food and fiber or for food and fiber research are not regulated under the AWA.”.Unlike Most animals in the U.S.

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Critter News

APRIL 22, 2010

It looks like the garbage didn't kill it, but still.just plain gross and unacceptable. Scientists with the Cascadia Research Collective said the examination did not immediately determine why the 37-foot near-adult male died, but it was found to be in better nutritional condition than other gray whales that died recently.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It looks like they are getting killed by ships as they try to eat krill. Researchers say the animals appear to be following abundant swarms of krill - the tiny, shrimp-like creatures that make up whales' favorite food group - right into the path of ship traffic. Really sad.

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Whales Whaling San Francisco Marine Life 100

Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

I came across this strange article about German research on which slaughter method creates more pain for the animal: the Western method of stunning or the Islamic method of a cut to the neck. According to the researchers, the Islamic method wins. You can read all about the results in the article. What an utterly grotesque project.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. Tags: animal experimentation animal research.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. Many of these stories will be known to avid readers of environmental news items and social media. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 250

Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Susan e-mailed after receiving RPA's news release on the organization's recent mailing to the governors of all 50 states about our land-grant universities' (LGUs') meat-industry problem. The interview is scheduled for 10-15 minutes of Monday's one-hour show. There's an Archive icon for possible later listening.

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Puerto Rico Responsible Policies Meat Industry Humane Treatment 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

These Blasts From The Past No Owls at Croton Point I Hate Connecticut… Birding Kazakhstan: Morning of Day 1 in Astana Ottawa By Way of Ohio The Snow Bunting That Almost Killed Me, or, Hyperbole in Bird Blog Post Titles is Fun! Germany had lost one of its most promising ornithological researchers, and one of its most active birders.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

“A reading of recent research shows that Australian birds are more likely than most to eat sweet foods, live in complex societies, lead long lives, attack other birds, and be intelligent and loud.” If I was so inclined, I might think that they deserve to be killed by Pied Currawongs for their sinful behavior. m apart. .”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

And, when the eagle fights and ultimately kills the fox, we get a bloody glimpse into another side of eagle hunting—its savagery and its original purpose. Aisholpan does say that she wants to be the first eagle hunter in Mongolia, but you must keep in mind that this is a young girl living in a culture whose main source of news is the radio.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

” This illustration from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (July 1875), drawn by Smith Bennett, is included in both The Passenger Pigeon and A Message From Martha. In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport. “Winter Sports in Northern Louisiana: Shooting Wild Pigeons.”

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The species was in the news because some scientists had finally managed (or bothered – it’s much the same thing) to locate the population high in the mountains of the Solomon Islands, and catch and photograph one. Today one can’t help feel Owen’s idea has been turned on its head.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. Tennessee found that out in January.

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