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The Fall 2024 AVMA Animal Welfare Assessment Contest, also known as AWJAC, recently brought together hundreds of competitors from across North America and Europe to apply science-based methods and ethical standards to assess the welfare of animals in a variety of settings.
impressive for Central Europe. The indoor workshop started with a Covid self-testing (where everyone was negative), followed by lectures on the Swarovski company, its ethos and products. The next day we had an outdoor workshop and a chance to test the toys. I am still trying to sort out my impressions and memories.
For the last two decades, Europe and the greater Mediterranean have been covered by one of the best field guides anywhere: “Collins Bird Guide” by Lars Svensson et al., published in the US by Princeton as “Birds of Europe”. Now, let me test the armour of “Birds of Cyprus” (BOC) against the mace of the “Collins Bird Guide” (CBG).
Interesting article on animal testing and cosmetics in Japan. Tags: animal testingeurope cosmetics Japan. They still have a lot of work to do in the pursuit of alternatives. They also need the will to change.
Their is a proposal to ban testing on apes in the EU. Europe's environment chief plans to ban laboratory tests on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans -- in a clampdown on animal testing by the drugs industry and other laboratories. Tags: europe apes.
Being fully inoculated with AstraZeneca, I understood that with a digital vaccination certificate, I do not need any further tests to enter Costa Rica – something to recheck again!! Update: with the vaccination certificate, I need no testing. A field guide I’ll have to study on a long flight from Europe to San Jose.
A substantial fund of EUR50 million (US$74 million) is being offered to European research teams to develop alternatives to animal testing for cosmetics and related industries. Tags: europe animal research cosmetics medical research.
The EU is so far ahead of the US when it comes to developing alternative testing methods, it's embarrassing. It has gone so far as to establish a website for tracking the development of methods to replace, reduce, and refine current animal testing in EU nations. They talk out of both sides of their you-know-what.
When I saw the NL Pure in a webinar for the first time, immediately – before the webinar ended, I asked my Swarovski sales rep for a pair to test. I kept them in my backpack until yesterday, didn’t want to hold them, to get any impressions… I wanted to test them as a tabula rasa (a clean slate). And today I did.
Fittingly, this revolutionary style is a product of Europe’s Age of Revolutions, being first introduced by the Austrian brewer Anton Dreher in 1841, at the beginning of what was perhaps the most tumultuous decade of the European nineteenth century.
In May 1992 European Union governments adopted legislation designed to protect the most seriously threatened habitats and species across Europe. After introductions we took a short walk to test out the PDA based site tour guides that visitors can use to guide them along the myriad of forest trails.
Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing and vertical caving. Trips Catalonia Europe Spain' In the valleys below, are small pine forests.
This unusual bird is definitely one of my favourite species in Europe, so I was very happy to connect with it (and to hear its call for the first time). While experiments have shown that some birds (like crows and parrots) can count, this rule unsurprisingly did not hold when subjected to testing.
Dragan will be writing about “Eastern Europe and Beyond” while Alfredo will cover “Neotropical Birds and Ecology.” … Dragan Simic is a name known by many of those who bird eastern Europe.
I was still telling the truth when I mentioned the four subspecies, species, taxa, forms, you name it, of the Great Egret: modesta (Asia), alba (Europe, Asia), egretta (Americas) and melanorhynchos (Africa). This is particularly interesting for birders in North America and Europe (duh!), How then could such a vagrant be identified?
The mini-pig, darling of celebrities’ handbags, may have had its bacon Sunday after the EU earmarked it as the laboratory test animal of the future. A research project into the feasibility of using miniature pigs in laboratories concluded they are better suited for testing toxins, drugs and chemicals than dogs and monkeys.
Given how far Hokkaido is from Europe, it seems a bit surprising how many bird species wintering on this Japanese island have a name starting with “Eurasian” Or how many of these species I have also seen in my parents’ garden in Germany. Like the Eurasian Nuthatch.
At the same time, the opinion of the European Parliament is that these objectives have to be achieved without impeding research on various serious diseases in Europe, reported the parliament’s press room. Tags: animal experimentation europe animal research medical research.
Drug and chemical companies say they endorse a Europe-wide initiative intended to eventually end the use of animals in research and safety testing. Testing a single chemical takes up to five years, involves 800 rodents and costs $3.8 The article from UPI is below in its entirety.
Malaysia is considering shutting down a controversial British-funded animal testing lab if there is evidence of cruelty there, the goverment's top veterinary official said on Sunday. If animal testing cannot be conducted in the United States or Europe, I see no reason why they should be allowed here," Abdul Aziz was quoted as saying.
Genetic tests eventually showed that along with great geographic distance the two populations were deeply separated by time, an the Iberian species (as it turned out to be) was a relic of a time when the azure-winged types of magpie had a much greater distribution. Oh that birds like it were more widely distributed in Europe today!
So, along with Lee, we created a test scenario and recruited 500 people across North America and Europe to imagine themselves in a service failure situation. Four different combinations of the five apology elements were created to test for the best approach. The one clear and consistent winner was test Condition No.3.
Dog Gone SmartTM pet products can be purchased at retailers like Cutter’s Mill Pet Store, Petco, Pet Food Express, Pet People, Joyful Honda in Japan, Fressnaph in Europe, In the Company of Dogs and Fetch Dog catalogs, and U.S. and international distributors covering more than 20 countries on 4 continents.
It’s no coincidence that the two species that pass Hare’s pointing test also share a profound cross-species bond. But scientists had carried out few studies to test those beliefs–until now. and Europe. In 2003, Hare traveled to Novosibirsk and ran his pointing test on baby foxes.
The Azure-winged Magpie seems to be a favorite subject of intelligence tests – resulting in papers with fancy titles such as “Performance of Azure-winged magpies in Aesop’s fable paradigm” “We are not only ornithologists, we also know about classical culture” Wow. None other than W.S.
Here is a little test-there are 6 species of shorebird in the photo-can you identify them? She has lived in the Middle East and the United States and traveled extensively in Europe. I am often amazed how tolerant the shorebirds are on big tides.
Wheeler, Clark has co-written A Photographic Guide to North American Raptors (also with Wheeler, PUP, 2009), A Field Guide to the Raptors of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa (with N. ” In addition to co-authoring Peterson’s Hawks of North America with Brian K. John Schmitt, Oxford Univ.
Even more than warbler, shorebird, and sparrow identification, this is a field that tests our endurance (gull watching is too often done in bitter cold, windy conditions), patience (even getting one good photo can take hours as you try to separate the ‘interesting gull’ from the flock), observational skills (so many plumages!) ”).
Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. However, going through my sightings I was surprised at how few Covid species actually call Europe – central Europe in particular – their home. Yes, yes, I know, not countable – it’s not a bird.
At first, the nation only opened to countries in Europe and Canada. As far as requirements for entering Costa Rica, one thing that is no longer needed is proof of a negative PCR COVID-19 test. Nevertheless, given the vital role that tourism plays in the local economy, Costa Rica stuck with plans to slowly reopen. The Birding.
Tap water is not as cold as in Europe (and, I presume, North America), but to be called lukewarm it should be warmer. Regarding the Covid, the usual measures were in place, and no one got it, at least no US, Canada, or French participants who did the mandatory testing at the end of the tour, as required by their home countries.
Rather large for a field guide, the maps have different shades, the stronger colour indicating the higher densities of birds (oh how I wish to see that in the Collins Bird Guide for Europe). Overall, this is one good field guide. A Field Guide to the Birds of Mongolia By Dorj Ganbold and Chris Smith • 210 x 148 mm (8¼ x 6”) • 304 pages • c.154
Luckily, here in America we follow the American Model of wildlife management where the animals and fishes are managed for the good of the public and not owned by landowners as is the case in Great Britain and much of the rest of Europe. Hunters will be required to pass and ID test.
The best female strategy seems to be to mate with as many of the males as possible, as this means more help in feeding the chicks by all the potential fathers (I guess the fathers do not have easy access to paternity tests). The Tibetan Snowcock at first glance looks a bit like Obelix to me – I guess it is the stripes.
A particularly attractive location is Europe, a large, compact, wealthy geography that is often the first stop after a successful domestic operation is well established. However, launching in Europe is a whole new ballgame compared to simply expanding at home. Will moving staff in from other locations, if needed, be allowed?
Is there a different culture regarding animals in Europe? At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. I just don't understand it. Is public outcry greater?
Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Tags: europe animal research medical research. Oh, but if you actually FEEL something, you might actually THINK about what you are doing.
There is much to enjoy and appreciate here and I only wish I could have tested out some of these species accounts in pelagic waters before writing about them (sadly, the 10,000 Birds pelagic to Antarctica was canceled this year). 1997), and Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004). .; Houghton Mifflin, U.S.),
Since the 2nd edition of the Collins Bird Guide (published as “Birds of Europe” in the US) from 2009, the field guide market for European guides is practically dead. “I don’t know anyone else crazy enough to try 12s,” Dragan’s friend said when he was told that Dragan was about to test the Swarovski NL Pure 12×42 binoculars.
Europe banned the use of great apes in animal testing Wednesday as part of drastically tightened rules to scale back the number of animals used in scientific research. Tags: chimpanzees europe animal research apes primates. Some may disagree, but I think this is a huge victory. From the AFP.
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