Critter News
JUNE 15, 2009
ALF activists spray painted a bomb threat at Wageningen University in the Netherlands because they do animal research. For more than a year this university has been warned about their meaningless experiments on various animals and especially pigs (obesity research). Never heard of that approach.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Dutch researchers carried out 592,665 experiments on animals last year, a 2.5% More than half the experiments were carried out for academic research and one third of those were for medical research. More than half the experiments were carried out for academic research and one third of those were for medical research.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2023
The species is classified as Near Threatened – in particular, numbers in the Netherlands have decreased substantially, and the chicks are negatively affected by intensified agriculture (HBW). Some researchers did an experiment that among humans is only done rarely and only via mistakes made in maternity hospitals.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
From there, we learn of the effects of season creep on Great Tits and winter moth caterpillars in the Netherlands, the increasing gap between male and female migration dates in Africa-wintering Barn Swallows and the lengthening migration of Barred Warblers as their breeding grounds shift north.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 30, 2007
25 well-known scientists, philosophers and politicians from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United States informed in a comprehensible manner and on a high level about the current status on animal ethics studies, answered open questions and introduced their approaches. More information on the book can be found here.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Otto Plantema resides in the Netherlands, is a scientist by trade (he has a Ph.D. Noah Stryker wrote about his experiences doing research with penguins in Among Penguins: A Bird Man in Antarctica (Oregon State Univ. Netherlands: Oliver Plantema, 2020. in organic chemistry), and an adventurer, photographer, and naturalist.
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