10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Whittaker’s adventures in olfactory research take unexpected turns into genetics, chemistry, and the halls of academia. ” (p. Written with humor, curiosity, and a lot of warmth, The Secret Perfume of Birds is an unexpectedly good read. There’s also roller derby stuff.
Critter News
MARCH 14, 2010
President Obama promised to eliminate wasteful government spending; funding for animal research is one area that is overdue for reform. Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. Tags: animal research Obama. Please do not advertise to sell your pets.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2016
Every time a gene is replicated, or really, a chromosome (during cell division), a bit of the end of a gene may be lost, owing to the way this process happens. This is part of the process of aging. Research done quite a while back suggests that this is adaptive. City Great Tit ( Parus major ) telomeres shortened.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
I had never heard of the use of ferrets in medical research though. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine claims these are unnecessary procedures, even though the ferrets are apparently anesthesized during the process. I live in Seattle and I am always skeptical of how the UW treats its lab animals. News to me.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2014
As I was just starting to examine it, a famous paleontologist who happened to be passing by came over to look, and immediately determine that it was a fossil primate tooth, a very rare find indeed. The process of jumping out of the lake if you are that big has to have a better return, I was think.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
For example, if we hear distant thunder, we know that it was caused by a storm, or by lightning, or by the more precisely defined physical processes of ionized air (depending on how much we know about meteorology). A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2011
For instance, in primate phylogeny, postcranial traits (bony traits of the body, not the head) are usually useless because we can’t link teeth to bodies in most cases, and the teeth drive the taxonomy (though there are some recent exceptions ). And this is where the latest research related to Archaeopteryx comes in.
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