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UK Records Increase in Animal Testing

Critter News

The growth in animal experiments reflects an expansion in biomedical research in Britain and is driven by advances in genetics and the development of new drugs that must be tested rigorously in monkeys before they are allowed to be given to humans.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

One such individual was Sir George Grey, who liberated many animals on his estate (mercifully on an island), including wildebeest, monkeys, zebras, wallabies, deer, cassowaries, emu and kookaburras. We don’t have monkeys, or wildebeest, or salmon here. It wasn’t long before some of these species started becoming problems.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

A single large spider monkey, which might be out of view, equals a large number of lightly built and small birds which may be scattered across the landscape. There are 200 animals in each sample, and I presume that this is a random subset of the larger sample of over 400 or so in each category. This is not a surprise.

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