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Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures

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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.

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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

10,000 Birds

It needs to be properly medicated and triaged. Did you know a bird’s body has the ability to seal a small puncture wound within minutes? Most likely the bird will need to be medicated for a few days “just in case.”. *Nestling or fledgeling bird with one or both parents confirmed dead. *A A hummingbird found on the ground.

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From Today's New York Times

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But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming. 7, 2008 The writer is director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment , Harvard Medical School. Eric Chivian Boston, Jan.

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Lost Among the Birds: A Review of a Big Year Book

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And, though he states he doesn’t know if it is his anti-depression medication or the birds that give him the ability to see a future for himself and for his relationship with Gerri, it is refreshing to read a birding memoir that doesn’t simplistically give all the credit to birding. Neil Hayward.

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