10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. And most recently, a team of researchers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Austria have demonstrated that New Caledonian Crows understand UCAs. But that’s another story. Here’s the idea.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. That's because of a little-known state law that requires government-run pounds to turn animals over to researchers if asked. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2016
Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. Like many others, this village was totally abandoned and only recently repopulated, with a current population of only 18 people. At the same time, a Peregrine Falcon flies across the valley.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2018
After that we visited a small remote site of an abandoned resort that is going back to the jungle quickly, and a water front location for shorebirds and gulls. When I was doing some very quick, last minute research on the area, a photo of the beautiful Pied-imperial Pigeon popped up on one of the eBird.org pages.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2017
Paving of the road across the Reva Pond started and was abandoned several months later: only the sidewalk was paved. You can probably understand the disappointment of a herpetologist friend of mine when he discovered that his very research transect was now paved. Yet, the site is quite ruined. I’d rather not discuss my disappointment.
Critter News
JANUARY 11, 2009
They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless. Remember animal research doesn't just create reports, it creates CAREERS as well.) Tags: animal research. I'll let them describe their positions in their own words.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
ad_icon The practice, however, is fiercely criticized by researchers and marine mammal conservationists, including the educational anthropologist widely credited with having invented it, retired Florida International University researcher Betsy Smith.
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