10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

I also did not understand the centrality of the Delaware Bay to shorebird migration, how timing and geographic design and water quality and tidal streams, the rich salt marshes and protected beaches combine to make this specific area of New Jersey and Delaware “The Most Important Stopover of the Western Hemisphere.”

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 177

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. I walked into an enormous dining area filled with rehabbers, and they were all eating lasagna and talking about the kind of animal medical issues that would send most people running from the room. He said, “Figure it out. Read Carl Hiaasen.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 249

Critter News

MAY 24, 2009

These activities are protected by the First Amendment. I have to say, this is pretty lame. Blowing things up or burning down buildings is one thing, but writing things on the sidewalk?

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AETA Protest Protesting Protesters 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2015

He meant well, but his research told him to feed them Exact parrot formula – which is NOT a diet for ravens. We took her to the vet and put her on medication, and somehow she pulled through. We would close the flight around 10 PM to protect them from predators, then we’d get up at four in the morning to open the door again.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2007

To inflict death or pain on animals for scientific or medical research is wrong morally, and ought to be prohibited. This does not mean that animals may never be deliberately harmed or become subjects of research. They may be used in benign research such as teaching chimpanzees to understand and use sign language.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Shark fins are also dried and used in alternative medicine and ancient medical practices. Claims for shark fins include relieving joint pain and curing cancer, though no research is available to back any of these claims. For example, shark fin soup is a delicacy in most of Asia, especially China.

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Sharks Asia Endangered Species Hunters 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It was very touching to read a comment from Mayr to a more non-scientific article by Liebers & Helbig in a German birdwatching magazine about the Herring Gull not being a ring species, where Mayr applauded them and was happy not only over but beyond the moon about the research. The proposal from U.S.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken. There simply is no dispute in the medical community that human breast milk is the best food a human infant can be fed. Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much.

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40