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Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals

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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.

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Birding Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

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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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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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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.

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Animal Health Care is Part of the Bottom Line

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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.

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Why Predictive Assessments May Be the Jolt Your Hiring Process Needs

Sales and Marketing Management

With that data in tow, create a job description and see how it compares to objective data culled about candidates' natural strengths and talents. As managing director at GrowthPlay , she leads the teams responsible for research, product development, and delivery.

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What Is Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)?

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While scavenging the internet and other public platforms, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) users cull information and then analyze it to yield valuable intelligence. While scavenging the internet and other public platforms, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) users cull information and then analyze it to yield valuable intelligence.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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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.

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