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ALF Spray Paints Bomb Threat in the Netherlands

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ALF activists spray painted a bomb threat at Wageningen University in the Netherlands because they do animal research. For more than a year this university has been warned about their meaningless experiments on various animals and especially pigs (obesity research). Never heard of that approach.

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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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. Netherlands: Oliver Plantema, 2020.

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“The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record”

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At that time Arjan had a brief visit to his homeland, the Netherlands, which boosted his morale, but also offered a chance to repack his backpack: “After three months of nonstop travel, I know exactly what is unnecessary and what is lacking. I’ve had so many incredible experiences.

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Increase in Dutch Animal Testing

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Dutch researchers carried out 592,665 experiments on animals last year, a 2.5% More than half the experiments were carried out for academic research and one third of those were for medical research. More than half the experiments were carried out for academic research and one third of those were for medical research.

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In which I put a Beach Boys song in your head

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The many islands of the Caribbean Sea are as unique a place to experience the amazing potential for speciation and diversity as the more famous Galapagos and Hawaiian islands are. Is it it’s own species?

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Birding Shanghai in June 2023

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The species is classified as Near Threatened – in particular, numbers in the Netherlands have decreased substantially, and the chicks are negatively affected by intensified agriculture (HBW). Some researchers did an experiment that among humans is only done rarely and only via mistakes made in maternity hospitals.

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A New Way Global Warming Kills Birds

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In any event, brood size matters, so in the experiment I’m talking about here, it was manipulated by the researchers. The birds used in this study were Zebra Finches reared and housed at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The experiment was run over several years with several hundred birds.

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