10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2014
So without further ado, here’s what’s been going on the past few weeks in bird news. Researchers studying the Fork-tailed Drongo (like the one above spotted by Redgannet) found that these birds essentially “cry wolf” to steal the food of others.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
These aging chimps deserve to retire permanently and NOT be subjected to more medical research. Tags: chimpanzees primates National Institutes of Health medical research new mexico. Here's hoping this poignant story will stir more public outrage and pressure on the NIH.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2015
As reported by the New York Times , the good professor has made a career out of studying interactions between predators and prey, and has lately homed in on birds’ warning signals, sharing a National Science Foundation grant with scientists from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 17, 2010
11, 2010 To the Editor: I’ve been involved in beef safety research since college, and I don’t recognize the industry you’ve depicted in recent articles. Beef farmers and ranchers alone have invested more than $28 million since 1993 in beef safety research, and the industry as a whole invests an estimated $350 million a year on safety.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 2, 2008
billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 10, 2009
Peter Singer Geoff Russell Barry Brook Melbourne, Australia, June 6, 2009 The writers are, respectively, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University, an independent researcher in Adelaide, Australia, and professor of climate change at the University of Adelaide. Reducing the size of the national cattle herd is the only feasible solution.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
And summary and discussion of recent research on how birds have changed the frequency and pitch of their songs in response to human noise and the possible consequences of those changes (again, we know that we don’t know). I do wish there was more about research on female bird song. And, that’s it.
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