Critter News

MAY 31, 2010

A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. The activists say Malaysia has no regulations on animal research, which could lead to test subjects being abused.

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Malaysia Monkeys Animal Research Rats 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

And, in a very lovely section in the middle of the book, she describes the life cycle of the cahow, informing evocative passages about their nocturnal courtship and flight with recent research findings about how seabirds are able to function—eat, sleep, navigate home. Beacon Press, 2012. —————-.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 164

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. The authors note that while the baby bluebirds are intentionally portrayed as caricatures, the subject birds are carefully researched.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 227

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The South Georgia Pipit is near threatened, its nests predated by rats, and is one of the main reasons that the South Georgia Heritage Trust aims to eradicate rats from the whole area. from Princeton University Press (directly from their website or from online book stores) and in Europe from the South Georgia Heritage Trust website.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

Here’s some data from the famous research project of Manu, Peru, giving biomass in kilograms per hectare. Oxford University Press. In your back yard, if you have a feeder and exclude insects, birds may represent 100% of the animal biomass until either you our your cat walks outside. Amphibian’s and Reptiles: 3.4 Myers, P.,

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 172