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I and the Bird #147: IATB SAT

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As the owner of what has been called ( by me ) western New York’s leading test prep organization , I have to meticulously analyze every aspect of these crucial college entrance exams. Consequently, I give you the IATB SAT … The SAT undoubtedly deserves the title of America’s most terrifying test.

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Europeans Continue to Search for Alternatives to Animal Research.Why Not Americans?

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At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. The aims of the EPAA are based on the '3Rs' of replacement, reduction and refinement.

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The Search for the Rarest Owl of India

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Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing and vertical caving. Rhesus Macaque © Marina Vukovic-Bhardwaj.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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But best of all — the thing that shows, surely, that he was born under a lucky star, is this: he’s now (as of 2005, when he migrated, permanently, to Ohio) — a Buckeye. As a test of endurance, as a physical ordeal, it’s both miraculous and monstrous.” As Kaufman says: “Four nights and three days in the air.

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Ruppy the glowing puppy

4 The Love Of Animals

Lee was also part of a team that created the first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005. Add in the cost of proper care for dogs (and other lab animals), as well as the public pereption about animal testing, and it’s unlikely that many more puppies like Ruppy will be created.

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Happy 12th Birthday Violet Rays!

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We spent the end of 2004 and beginning of 2005 getting fired by vet after vet. She needed to know that I was committed to her life and the way I would demonstrate that was to keep her by my side and regulate her myself, using the same glucometer and test strips people use. She's our 62-pound miracle.

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A Question of Migration

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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. I was involved in the study of human movement and navigation on land, and there was a lot of research coming out about bird navigation. 2 PIERSMA, T.,