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AVMA releases expanded humane slaughter guidelines

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The latest edition of the AVMA Guidelines for the Humane Slaughter of Animals builds on the original 2016 version, with sections on fur-bearing species and marine animals.

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Embracing the Artificial Intelligence Mind-Set Without Losing the Human Touch

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-10-10. Teaser: The increased efficiencies resulting from CRM systems and the capabilities provided by Big Data do not replace the human touch of sales. The increased efficiencies resulting from CRM systems and the capabilities provided by Big Data do not replace the human touch of sales. Author: Mike Restivo.

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Juniper, plagues, and waxwings – Arrowood Farm-Brewery: Waxwing Juniper Farmhouse Ale

10,000 Birds

Being generally more charming and attractive to us humans, birds aren’t generally included among these unwelcome hordes. In Europe, favorite foods of the waxwing include berries of the rowan and the hawthorn, which do see limited use in human cuisine and drink in products like teas, conserves, and country wines.

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Backyard Beneficiaries

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A brief personal digression: I moved back into the house I grew up in back in 2014, my parents vacated at the end of 2016. Life here is experiencing a boon in the face of encroaching human activity, at least in my immediate vicinity. One of my main projects has been our yard here at home.

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GARBO TALKS!

10,000 Birds

Such syntactical rules have long been assumed to be unique to humans, but their results demonstrate that syntax is not unique to humans. Toshitaka Suzuki, David Wheatcroft, and Michael Griesser (2016) Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls, Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10986.

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.