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Bird Therapy

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Of course, we insist they do talk to medical professionals if their problems are especially serious.) Yes, birding can be a wonderful tool for maintaining mental health. Why is birding such an effective mental health tool? Many people are more comfortable speaking to a pastor than to a psychologist or psychiatrist. (Of

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Southwest Primate Center "Celebrates" 10 Years

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And let's not forget the required sanctimonious quote from an animal researcher “Our primates are essential partners in medical progress, as are mice, rats, guinea pigs and opossums. Without them we would be stripped of the very tools we need to open new paths of discovery and to challenge old dogma.” Oh brother.

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The Queen

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Yet I realize banding is a very valuable tool, and gives us information we could not otherwise gather. She was tired, thin, and had several medical issues. And to prove it, there’s The Queen. Just before Thanksgiving, 2010, a driver spotted a Red-tailed hawk sitting on a dead rabbit in the middle of the road.

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Weekend Adopt-a-thon for Joplin Tornado Pets

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Both agencies are lining up other activities for the adoption event as well, such as tours of the ASPCA Mobile Animal Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Unit, a specially-designed vehicle outfitted with state-of-the-art forensics tools as well as medical equipment tailored for animal patients.

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The Horrors of Shark Finning

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Shark finning is the practice of removing fins from live sharks with sharp tools, and then tossing the shark back into the ocean. Shark fins are also dried and used in alternative medicine and ancient medical practices. However, watching these shows on DIRECT.TV In fact, dried shark fin can go for as much as $300 a pound or more.

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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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Lange, late-19th/early-20th century botanical illustrators and mycologists (Krieger was “considered the finest painter of North American fungi,” according to Wikipedia) plus drawings by modern-day medical and botanical illustrators Joan Thomson , Lara Gastinger , and Angela Mele.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. Medical schools, in particular, made ample use of them for education and research in surgery and cardiology." And for what?