Critter News

AUGUST 10, 2009

Big pharma is also involved in promoting animal research for its own benefit. It claims that it must research on animals in order to save people, but then charges such high costs for drugs to these same people that many, even in the rich country of the US, must forego them and risk their lives.

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Critter News

MAY 5, 2011

This billboard poses the issue as an either/or.save the child or the rat. Certainly not showing what they do, how they are funded and how the licensing of their "altruistic" work nets them a tidy sum. It's not that simple. How many of these experiments are even necessary?

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

They were named for the Isle of Man but are no longer found there – the arrival of the brown rat ruined that home for them. (But But there is, apparently, and thanks to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, some good news on the rat front in that part of the world.).

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West Virginia Rats Albatross Georgia 204

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Smithsonian Institute researcher is accused of trying to poison street cats outside her apartment building on 15th Street in Northwest. Dauphine works at the National Zoo studying wild birds, where her research has focused on one of birds’ enemies: cats. ” The Ph.D. Here’s hoping that Dauphine has her name cleared.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Dutch researchers carried out 592,665 experiments on animals last year, a 2.5% The increase was largely due to new EU rules on chemical compounds, which have led to an increase in testing on rats, the inspectors said. More than half the experiments were carried out for academic research and one third of those were for medical research.

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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

APRIL 10, 2015

And I am a serious environmentalist, and my heart bleeds every time I take my old car batteries and leftover rat poison and dump them in the river. The conservation implications are clear,” writes researcher Dr. Susan Willson. “If “My cat is a ferocious birder … and I am also a serious bird lover.”. Does Birdsbesafe work?

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

There are researchers out there who say that they do. Researchers tickled babies and six different kinds of apes, quantified their giggles, and found that the patterns fit a classic evolutionary tree. I personally think that a credible laughter concept can, and already has been, extended to mammalian species as lowly as the rat.".

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Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Aren't there better things to research? Whether intentionally or not, the title of the article catches the frivolity of the research."Don't But see the qualifications in the article.The animal research has offered one explanation for the rising number of babies born with these conditions. Don't let your mouse watch TV."

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

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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Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2009

The law, since revised, aimed to protect animal research laboratories from illegal, sometimes violent protests. Huntingdon used mostly mice and rats , but also some dogs, monkeys, fish and guinea pigs , in its research in New Jersey.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Sadly, though, some 200,000 hamsters were used for research in the United States in 2000, third behind rats and mice. Now, one million hamsters are kept as pets, an increase of 41 percent since 2001. This includes the two sitting on the shelf in our house!)

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 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.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

Unfortunately, by the nature of the problem, the history of the young field is littered with examples of researchers allowing their subconscious biases — or worse, their conscious ones — to influence how they read the data. But perhaps such morals would be the hardest to discover and document.

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Morals Animal Humane Research 110

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 30, 2011

For these folks, I recommend a nontraditional pet like a rat or a guinea pig. Rats are extremely cuddly, they don’t bite and they only live two years. With purebred animals, it is especially important to do your research and make sure the pet fits your family’s lifestyle.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 19, 2012

And, speaking of poisons, talk to your vet before putting down any rat or ant poison, which can sicken your pet before it reaches its intended target. Take the time to research plants that are poisonous to your pet and make sure you remove them. One of the best ways to pet proof your home is by training your pet to be his own enforcer.

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Pets Psychology Cats Rats 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. Even if you have read about these research projects, Weidensaul’s accounts offer fresh angles and updated information. is through the personal and the specific.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Before you answer, here are some details to inform your decision: The first "knockout animals" were laboratory rats, whose anterior cingulate cortex have been damaged/blocked so that though they might still feel pain, they do not find it unpleasant. My objection is: Why do such research when you don't need to?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. A PhD student was presenting her research into the population in Westland, the relic population of Grey Duck.

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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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Olson who in 1986 published a paper describing his experience finding, reading, and researching Bloxam’s original notes. Rats did it in, as they did so many species. You can see a PDF of that paper here. (I I relied upon it heavily for this article.). We saw them running about the wood in great quantities.

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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. There are eleven types of plant habitats, including Bog, Mire, and four kinds of grasslands.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2016

For example, in rats (as in “lab rat”) if the mother of a nominally (genetically) male offspring does not repeatedly lick the anogenital region of the pup, the usual cascade of hormones and hormone induced changes, involving androgens, will not occur in that individual and the final outcome will not be a rat that will mount and mate with a female.

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Rats Sparrows Birds North Carolina 106

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Others are only known from a specimen or two sitting in the drawer of a research institution. Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. Of those nearly two hundred there are very few that people would recognize. Olson’s Petrel. Viti Levu Scrubfowl.

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

Homemakers employ deadly rat traps and poisons to rid their dwellings of vermin. In university labs nationwide, scientists inflict spinal-cord injuries on dogs and cats, inject rats with carcinogens, test dangerous drugs on monkeys, and do all kinds of evil things to guinea pigs in the name of scientific research.

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Michael Vick Guinea Pigs Animal Cruelty Animal Abuse 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

Here’s some data from the famous research project of Manu, Peru, giving biomass in kilograms per hectare. 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. The data here are from the site of Manaus: All animals: 200 Mammals: 8.4

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 175

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Because, it has been much more valuable as a cultural icon, a symbol of whimsey and extinction.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 102

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

They are large passerines and research has shown them to be an ancient basal offshoot from the passerine tree (at approximately the same time as rockjumpers, were even placed in the same family until quite recently). Then a few years ago the news broke that picathartes had been rediscovered at a community forest reserve in Ghana.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Given the complexity of the research, the result feels like a bit of a letdown – “northern populations start migration earlier than southern populations, especially in autumn” The species name of the Chestnut-eared Bunting is fucata , from the Latin “fucare”, to paint red.

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 207