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Is Medical Research on Animals REALLY the Only Way?

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I responded to a post on animalblog that cited a recent article in the journal "Proceedings" of the National Academy of Sciences. Tags: animal experimentation medical research monkeys. It’s just a question of WILL.

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Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds

10,000 Birds

In this study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group of juvenile zebra finches was allowed to interact with an adult. That’s because, unlike this current work, past studies didn’t control for the time exposed to song and the presence of other birds.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

10,000 Birds

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats.

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