Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Another animal experiment I would not support as a US taxpayer. In Bergman's study, according to Discovery News, 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys would be subjected to radiation and periodically tested to gauge how exposure affects performance in a variety of learned tasks. Tags: animal experimentation NASA.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2010

You heard it right.sheep decompression tests. PETA and the Alliance for Animals are asking for charges to be filed against the University of Wisconsin at Madison. It is illegal in Wisconsin to kill an animal by means of decompression. Tags: animal research sheep PETA university of madison-wisconsin.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Described in the “Territoriality and aggression” chapter, this is a sublime example of behaviour from the “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman, an Emeritus Chair in Behavioural and Environmental Biology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. Here's another experiment using mice to determine whether stress and chemicals in plastic is leading to messed up male genitals and, therefore, infertility.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

If they are "only" animals, if they are beasts which abstract not, then my comparison is a piece of sentimental foolishness. The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. These chimps are healthy and well-fed. But chimpanzees can abstract.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2010

An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. The two-week experiment involving 29 pigs began Tuesday in the Western Austrian Alps. From USA Today.

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Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

The personality characteristics we were both deemed to have can all be found by observation as well as a 500+ question test. Riddle me this: Why would any human animal use as a default position that nonhuman animals do not have personalities as rich, distinct, obnoxious, obsequious and varied as human animals?

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Critter News

AUGUST 19, 2010

The contract expires next year and Richardson opposes a plan by the agency to transfer the chimps from the Alamogordo Primate Facility, where they are no longer used for medical testing. The animals can be used again for medical experiments if transferred to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Pet lovers will be seeing stars November 5 – 15 at the Celebrity Experience and Entertainment Memorabilia Auction , launched online to support Precious Paws , a non-profit animal rescue organization based in Encino, Calif. I can see what the support and donations do for the animals first hand. Star-Powered Auction for Animals!

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

I'm behind on my email and only just read this action alert from the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Less than one year ago, Puerto Rico enacted a landmark animal protection law, based in part on a set of model laws drafted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. From the ALDF action alert page.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I am deeply troubled and angry that the National Institute of Health wants to move almost 200 chimpanzees from this facility to a laboratory in Texas where they may be subjected to testing. These highly intelligent animals should be PERMANENTLY retired and a PERMANENT sanctuary created for them.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

What extraordinary birds penguins are: physically, they remind us of ourselves, so we think we understand their behaviors, but, as the authors say, “their private life is as complex and mysterious as that of any wild animal.” Although I did test them thoroughly later, I knew from that first sight, this pair was made for me.

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Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

Videos showed mistreatment of the lab animals. The Humane Society wants 9 chimps that are not being "used" as part of experiments to be released to a sanctuary. Jeff Rowell, NIRC director, in an e-mail Wednesday} "said the nine remaining animals are being housed as a family group at the center with access to indoor-outdoor caging.

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Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

I occasionally read Scienceblog when there is mention of animal research issues. Here's the first of an apparent series by a blogger on why we need to do animal testing.part 1 - drug discovery!!! I'm not going into why I do not support animal research. Testing drugs on animal is unpleasant. No one likes doing it.

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Animal Person

JULY 21, 2010

As you may know, Vetsulin has been discontinued and diabetic animals are being transitioned to Humulin N (or a similar human insulin appropriate for dogs and some cats) or Lantus/glargine (for cats). " And make sure everyone in your home and everyone who cares for your animal knows where they are and how to use them.

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

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. Tags: europe animal research medical research.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. Henry, as Kivell affectionately admits, may not be “the sharpest knife in the drawer,&# but compared to other animals, he’s a true scholar.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. We know that animals can essentially lose their predator avoidance behaviors. You will see often repeated that the Galapagos are unique in the lack of fear of humans exhibited by the animal inhabitants. Invasion of the birdie snatchers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2014

Adam and Tim are experienced Florida birders with varying degrees of experience when birding the Tropical Rainforests. Observation towers and canopy walkways were initially built to help study the plant and animal life in the forest canopy, which is impossible to study from the forest floor. Many of these birds were lifers for them.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 25, 2009

Ruppy and four other beagles are the first dogs to glow, though the experiment has taken place in other animals. 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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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the Animal Liberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans. That's one result.

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Animal Person

JULY 24, 2009

The PF Chang update, in case you haven't seen the response from the restaurant , is thus, once you incorporate the actual experiences of vegans who have gone through something similar with the restaurant: If you don't eat non-vegan sugar, there aren't many options. If you don't consider the sugar a major transgression, you have many choices.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Then there are the myriad entry points to thinking about how we use animals and the impact that has on the animals, the planet, our bodies and our consciences. Who needs to eat animals when you can have delicious, low fat, high fiber, nutritious meals that are light on carbon footprint and don't involve killing anybody?

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Enrolled pets receive lifetime coverage for diagnostic tests, surgeries, and medications if they get sick or are injured, with no incident, annual or lifetime limit. If you keep yourself focused and prepared, a trip to the dog park can be an incredibly enjoyable experience for both dog and owner. I love dog parks.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 30, 2011

Many shelters have the ability to test dogs with other dogs as well as cats. Even if you don’t own other animals it’s a good idea to take advantage of this process. In her years of experience with dog rescue she’s learned one very important key to successful adoption, knowing how to choose the right dog for your lifestyle.?

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 18, 2010

Experience is the best teacher, we’re told, but sometimes past experience can be misleading. We learn to trust the dog across the hundreds of increasingly-difficult test searches we do in training together, but it’s sometimes tempting to give in to doubt and try to take over. Past experience? Avoid Hasty Conclusions.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

A range of animals come to satisfy their need for salt or the soothing effects of the clay along the river banks of the region. The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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Critter News

JULY 7, 2009

This particular animal research controversy is occurring in New South Wales (Australia). Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. From the online Sydney Morning Herald.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

For long it was assumed that the saplings cannot survive being under water half a year, from spring to August, but recently another theory was tested. Hence, the experiment was created: a plot was fenced off to keep the animals away and now willow saplings did survive being submerged for half a year.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Australian Association for Humane Research says that Australia experiments on more animals per capita than the European Union, the UK and New Zealand. Tags: australia animal experimentation animal research. They are trying to get figures for the Northern Territory.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2015

But it’s going to be a long time before we have tested all the birds — and gained enough understanding about how genes and gene expression actually work — to have a thorough understanding of the world’s bird populations. ” What to do?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2012

Knowledge is more likely to be shared via shared experience than the exchange of data, though both happen. Experiments had been done which involved strapping magnets to the heads of homing pigeons to see if you could confuse them. I was also eventually to learn that Efe do not have an uncanny built in sense of direction.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. Now that 2008 has arrived, I'd like once again to encourage new and old readers alike to make this the year that they stop supporting animal cruelty in all of its forms. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. What can I do to stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty, and is it difficult to do so? b) Stop eating animal products. (c) h) Don’t attend circuses that contain nonhuman animal acts. (i)

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The hormones released by the testes and the ovaries can, over time, contribute to cell damage that causes cancer in other organs. Having puppies isn’t a fun science experiment. About the Author: Jane is an animal lover, and doesn’t turn away any animal that needs help. Reduced Costs and Stress.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2011

These bird songs have two aspects, and I oversimplify but not excessively so: A genetically inherited template, usually specific to the song-producing sex, and a learned song that consists of the template shaped by experience as a developing bird hears the adult version of its own song. The top two are individuals with normal song.

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