Critter News

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Bill Richardson on Thursday the chimps will not be transferred to a San Antonio, Texas, facility until the National Academy of Sciences reviews policies on using chimpanzees in biomedical research. The chimps have been free from testing at the Alamogordo Primate Facility at Holloman Air Force Base since 2001.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

She lives part-time in Uruguay and is co-director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen, Germany, which seeks to bridge the “two cultures” of science and literature. The novel works, mostly, and who better than Gaines to make it so? We were lucky, Alejandra and I,” says Gabe, unironically. “We,

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Some of the first solid research pointing to a magnetic sense of some sort in birds was being produced at that time, and there were even people testing humans for a similar ability. Perhaps that will be the subject of a future post in this space. __ 1 Fransson, et al, 2001. Bird migration: Magnetic cues trigger extensive refuelling.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that irradiating half the meat and poultry consumed in the United States would mean 900,000 fewer cases of food-borne illness and 350 fewer deaths each year. Larry Katzenstein Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.,

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