Critter News
AUGUST 25, 2009
Here's a post on the Red, Green and Blue blog about the unspeakable trade in macaque monkeys as research subjects. Better to cull them than subject them to years of pain and loneliness in a lab. Better to cull them than subject them to years of pain and loneliness in a lab.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2023
It seems there is not much research done specifically on Blue-naped Parrots – the only paper I could find featuring the species was from 1981 and had the somewhat unappealing title “A Preliminary Study Comparing the Pharmacokinetics of Ampicillin Given Orally and Intramuscularly to Psittacines: Amazon Parrots (Amazond spp.)
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
This was proposed as an example of what we now call “stabilizing selection” … variation is constantly introduced into populations, but every now and then “selective forces” culls the variation out. Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
the development of field-based ornithological research in Europe and Great Britain; a quick step back through the history to look at bird protection, conservation, and our precarious future, with a focus on Birkhead’s long-term (50 years!) Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Beagle , pt.
Critter News
APRIL 24, 2009
However, research based on finishing pig group opportunity costs calculated on mortality, culls and feed conversion to target reveals startling results, with the best to worst sites varying by $11 per pig, with the widest variance per site at $34 per pig.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. required to determine those catch limits.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Fortunately, Singapore is not Florida, where Mr. DeSantis would probably have the two birds described in a paper culled (though the paper talks about “aberrant” behavior, which is a phrase Mr. DeSantis would probably feel comfortable with). They have been found nesting in two of these boxes, producing five chicks in three years ( source ).
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