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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

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We also try to re-nest uninjured baby birds so we don’t interfere with a bird’s breeding cycle. It needs to be properly medicated and triaged. Most likely the bird will need to be medicated for a few days “just in case.”. Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies. After all, “Mother knows best.”

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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation. Tags: animal experimentation puerto rico animal research primates medical research.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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of Army Medical Department 1815-1851. The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. The actual findings are not that interesting – boy babbler meets girl babbler, they fall in love and breed – and everything is over in less than one month.

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Last Monkey Recaptured by Primate Center

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These are not subject monkeys, but they are part of the breeding colony. Breeding for what? They are part of the center's breeding colony. Tags: animal experimentation primates medical research oregon. I don't know how I feel about this. Sunday, officials said. The last monkey was found on the primate center campus.

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Birding Flagstaff: A Green Detour

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While exploring Flagstaff, I found a pair of these birds nesting near the Flagstaff Medical Center in a patch of forest. Perhaps the main target for any birder visiting in the summer is the uniquely beautiful Lewis’s Woodpecker , the most bizarre woodpecker species I have yet to encounter.

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Disaster Preparedness Plan May Save Your Pet’s Life

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. - Folder with list of types of vaccination records & medical history to get from vet. Make sure to include a pre-signed medical treatment authorization in your kit. Make sure you ask if they have any limitations on the number, size, species or breeds they allow. Some dog breeds (e.g. are not allowed.

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Rats Taking Over from Mice in Labs

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Scientific advances over the last three years have now made it feasible to easily tinker with rat genes, creating the possibility of far better models of certain human diseases, and potentially shortening the time it takes to develop medications. While both rats and mice have similarities to humans, rats win out in key areas.

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