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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

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Herbert travels broadly to attend birding festivals and fairs as an exhibitor and as a guest speaker on the topics of ecotourism development, community-based Skills training focusing on Women in tourism. Black-chested snake Eagle with a snake at Matheniko Wildlife Reserve Eastern Uganda.

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USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center

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In December, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a warning letter to the primate center for violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which regulates treatment of many commercial animals from pet kittens to laboratory guinea pigs. And the center added training and banned one researcher from animal contact in response.

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Osprey in Missoula

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The Hellgate Canyon nesting platform has a nestcam trained on it. So does another located at Dunrovin Ranch (in the background of which you can occasionally see poet Mackenzie Cole and others of my MFA buddies working on horse training.) Most notable of all, though, is the nest at the baseball field. Adaptation has its privileges!

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Physicians Committee Accuses University of Washington of Cruelty to Ferrets

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A national physicians group has filed a federal complaint against the University of Washington, saying its use of ferrets to train medical residents in emergency procedures on babies and children violates a federal animal-welfare law. Full story in the Seattle Times.

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice. You should have said whales.

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The Thing About Colombia

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Not just birds, but also plants (Colombia boast the most orchid species, too), insects, primates, reptiles. But at Rio Blanco, a resident has trained them to come in to his voice and eat earthworms. There are a lot of opportunities for endemism both between and within the mountain ranges. The list goes on and on and on.

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Fur Free Fashion Show Winners Announced

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Winners First Place: Tammy Apostol, an independent designer in Miami, FL, for her “Green Organic Cotton Gown,” a strapless mermaid silhouette gown with a back train. BFUSA’s Primate Sanctuary in Texas is home to more than 500 primates rescued from laboratories, roadside zoos, and private possession.

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