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Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money

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Recent published studies document that an old boys network in the federal grant award process keeps “aging cash cows” afloat while leaving younger, innovative investigators struggling.

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Birding in Honduras, Part II: Pico Bonito Lodge

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Cuery y Salado Preserve protects a coastal mangrove system full of wildlife from monkeys to trogons. Half the fun of this site is the process of getting there by an old, repurposed “banana train! Half the fun of this site is the process of getting there by an old, repurposed “banana train!”

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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At the same time, female relatives of the initiate allow themselves to be severely whipped with saplings, forming permanent scarring on their backs and in the process cementing lifelong allegiances between the parties. A long bearded D’Brazza’s Monkey was gorging on figs along the Mago River. A young Hamar woman. Mursi woman.

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Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds

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Every time a gene is replicated, or really, a chromosome (during cell division), a bit of the end of a gene may be lost, owing to the way this process happens. This is part of the process of aging. City Great Tit ( Parus major ) telomeres shortened. Telomeres are repetitive sequences of genetic material sitting at the ends of genes.

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Physicians Committee Accuses University of Washington of Cruelty to Ferrets

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The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine claims these are unnecessary procedures, even though the ferrets are apparently anesthesized during the process. The UW has been cited in the past for deficiencies in animal research, including allowing a monkey to starve in 2009. News to me. Full story in the Seattle Times.

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I Remember Elephants

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Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. Every now and then, I need to cut the world off and clear my mind.

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All my patches

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As time goes by, my home was back in Belgrade, but now my paddling days were mostly over. The Ada Huja riverbank. Which birds can be seen there?

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