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Southwest Primate Center "Celebrates" 10 Years

Critter News

This place is celebrating its 10th year with ground-breaking research into what makes us all fat. And let's not forget the required sanctimonious quote from an animal researcher “Our primates are essential partners in medical progress, as are mice, rats, guinea pigs and opossums. Tags: primates medical research.

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Casa Tangara dowii, Costa Rica: to claim our feathery gold

10,000 Birds

In 1978 two researchers from Harvard University were impressed by these quetzal-filled cloud forests, published photographs in the United States, and the Chacóns began to host increasing numbers of American birders. Sometime later, it was already dark and I was in a bathroom when Serge knocked at the door: Look out, opossum at the feeder!