Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2010

Here's an article about an increase in animal experiments at Cardiff University in Wales. In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He also believes that we are living in an era of incredible scientific research, one in which new genetic technology and findings from diverse scientific disciplines have turned assumptions upside down, opened up new lines of thought, and provided answers, or at least probable answers, to many of our questions about why birds do the things they do.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 8, 2009

It's in response to the arrest of Yale animal technician Raymond Clark for the murder of Annie Le, but makes some important points about animal research. No, for animal researchers the bigger fear from Le's murder than technicians like Clark is the public seeing the heaps of unsupervised government pork behind their Plexiglas curtain.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions. Yet, the research projects are never the whole story.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future. They are by Karlson, from his years as a research biologist in Alaska, and Ted Swem, a U.S.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Previously, even researchers had problems getting access to nesting Kirtland’s Warblers. Now there are volunteer guides, tours and a local festival.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2024

One recent article , “Hybrid zone or hybrid lineage”, refers to the issue in its subtitle as “Sibley’s classic species conundrum in hybrid Pipilo towhees” The conundrum in question is the affirmation by the ornithologist Charles G.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

and then the life and writings of Harriet Mann Miller, a New York State native who under the name Olive Thorne Miller wrote eleven books and hundreds of articles about nature in the mid- and late 19th century. She frames her story with first a Doonesbury comic strip (remember Dick Davenport, the bird watcher?)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. I would also love to have more documentation of the many books, articles, research points, and stories that Dunn relates, at the very least a list of sources. Is all that material on Selkirk needed? Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P. January 2021).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

He draws on his personal experiences to inform the history, geography, and especially the travel option sections. A lot of his travel experiences involved camping and independent travel on small sailing yachts, and if this is your preferred mode of travel this book will be particularly useful. © Otto Plantema, used with permission.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

In an elaborate experiment, adult Sheawaters were take away from their nests during nesting season and given a series of treatments, and released hundreds of kilometers away. The details are complicated but the article is OpenAccess, so I’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to examine the paper to the degree you like.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. These researchers preferred this property for their research due to its close proximity to the Arenal Volcano and resplendent natural environment.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges. I wish I had read this book. They complement Kricher’s text.,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

” The interlocking wheels of crabs, migration, birds, tides, marsh, beach, fishermen and researchers are described in an unhurried pace in ten chapters. Once used as fertilizer, the crabs are now harvested as bait for common whelk and bled for an extract used in medical research.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Kennedy initiated the original project, and has returned to the Philippines many times since for research purposes; he seems to think that Rettig’s new project is crazy, but in a good way, and offers a larger perspective from the comfort of a room in (I assume) Cincinnati, where he works for the Museum of Natural History.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth Lima’s ‘real life’ work is academic, she is a professor of biological and agricultural engineering as Louisiana State University with research interests in community-based design and service-learning in engineering. I think this is unique in the Big Year Narrative genre and I appreciate it.

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Critter News

APRIL 27, 2010

If you jump to the comments at the bottom, people took issue with the implication at the end of the article that Jane Goodall would somehow question this grieving behavior. This is because they quote some guy from the USC Jane Goodall Research Center who throws doubt on the premise. I'm sure many will dismiss these studies regardless.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

Each chapter concludes with References, a bibliographic listing of the books, articles, and web pages cited in the text. To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating.

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SalesFuel

MAY 1, 2024

Sharing To Different Sales Stages In an article for LeadG2, Kaitlyn McDevitt shares ways to engage and convert buyers with content. During the consideration phase, they actively research and evaluate different solutions,” McDevitt explains. Focus on unique extras and personal experiences.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Indeed, most of what we knew about Emperor Penguins before Kooyman’s research expeditions was about their breeding behavior and physiology. Kooyman was there to work at McMurdo Station (a large American research station that we hear about throughout the book) as technical assistant on a science mission involving fish.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 8, 2024

SalesFuel’s research shows one-third of sellers say their price being “too high” is the top objection they hear from buyers. They have access to information and do their own research on vendors before even reaching out. Informed buyers are likely to bring their research to the negotiation table and demands for lower prices.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Dear Senator Murray, I have read articles in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times about the chimpanzees at Holloman Air Force Base. This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments.

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SalesFuel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The B2B Buying Experience and Overcoming Objections New research from Dentsu underscores just how much the B2B buying experience has changed in recent years. Nearly half, 46%, of B2B buyers look for vendors with experience, according to our recently published B2B BuyerSCAN study. Being included requires you to be visible.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

White article on bird feeding stations. He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. Starting in 1956, Harper wrote the text for the articles as well. The Ford Times articles are the core of Birds & Art.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

Northern Gannets on cliffs Dense Northern Gannet colony While researching this trip, there was a common theme in the articles relating to the gannets: Avian Flu hit this colony hard in 2022. An odd side effect was noticed by researchers – black irises. On a single day, more than 5,000 dead birds were counted.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

The chapter “Vagrants” promotes the joys and difficulties of finding that mega-rarity on your own, giving Lovitch’s own experiences using habitat, geography, and weather to make rarity predictions that unfortunately don’t come true. The book is full of references to recommended books , articles, and web sites.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 13, 2024

One of the suggestions that Kogan highlights in her article is a simple, easy task. But this acknowledgement, according to research, is crucial to maintaining well-being in sales. Becoming aware of your difficult feelings reduces the intensity with which you experience them."

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SalesFuel

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

And research supports it. Researchers found teams that regularly used win-loss analysis outperformed those that did not,” she reports. Make sure that whoever you interview, they have experience with your strategy and process. Did we personalize the entire experience enough to fit your needs and preferences?

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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. Dogs often are used in research for narcolepsy, certain cancers and blindness. Dogs often are used in research for narcolepsy, certain cancers and blindness. Unfortunately, cloing is not efficient, (just 1.7

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SalesFuel

OCTOBER 3, 2024

article, build the five-hour rule into your weekly schedule. In addition, the best apps can feed you real-time pre-meeting industry research. With enough learning, you’ll accumulate knowledge and can demonstrate expertise by authoring articles. These activities are a great start. Other sales professionals put off closing deals.

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SalesFuel

AUGUST 6, 2024

Researchers report that employee isolation and loneliness is impacting productivity. For many of us, the work experience means staring at a computer screen for most of the day. New research shows that employers are aware of this issue and are calling workers back to the office. We may also chat with co-workers on video calls.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In addition to my monthly posts here, I have also written short pieces and feature articles that rely on bird-related scientific literature. Other papers are locked behind paywalls.) That research ultimately led to an article about the conservation efforts regarding the Laysan Duck in the June 2017 issue of Birding.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 4, 2009

But there are other scenarios, such as some that PCRM has suggested in the past, that do make sense; where the goal is to alter policy within a company regarding, say, research using animals when that's not required. Or putting money into researching alternatives. Here 's a local news article about the situation.)

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 12, 2019

population 18,000) about their personal experiences with anger. We tend to think of anger as a wild, negative emotion, but research beyond Averill’s study finds that anger also has its positive side. Research has shown that anger can make us push toward our goals in the face of problems and barriers.

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