10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Actually, many birds are able to use smell; the 2006 edition of the classic textbook Ornithology states, “Although they have been underestimated in the past, the olfactory abilities of most birds are comparable to those of some mammals (Mason and Clark 2000). ” * Nevertheless, the myth continued.
Critter News
JULY 12, 2009
In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2012
The first thing I learned was that most animal-plant interaction did not involve mammals, or even birds. I remember taking an advanced seminar in plant-animal interaction, in preparation for my own study of human-plant interactions. Insects ruled. We spent most of the rest of the semester dealing with grasshoppers.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2013
In mammals, maggots eat only dead tissue and are occasionally used to debride wounds. We medicated her for maggots, picked at least 100,000 of the creepy critters from her abdomen, and finally treated the injury. She chirped a quiet but definite message, and everyone in the room understood she was not done with life yet.
Critter News
JUNE 16, 2010
I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. From what I recall, chimpanzees share at least 95 percent of human DNA, although the number that floats around the most is 98.6 The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 3, 2010
Heartworms are easily controlled by any one of a number of medications designed to kill the worms or repel mosquitoes. When a mosquito bites an infected bird and then bites a human or mammal, it can transmit the virus. It can affect humans, birds, horses, dogs, cats, and other mammals. EEE, or Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
One is Tylenol (the human pain medication) — a completely selective feral-cat poison. No, to me the saddest part of this whole situation is that the National Audubon Society has been missing in action for years on what is one of the most crucial conservation challenges facing our native birds, mammals, and herps.
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