Critter News

JUNE 15, 2009

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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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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Critter News

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

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. Tags: animal research Netherlands. From the DutchNews.nl.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

A new research project using Zebra Finches in semi-wild conditions indicates that for some bird populations a certain aspect of climate change may have a negative effect on the viability of populations by causing increased mortality in a subtle but significant way. The experiment was run over several years with several hundred birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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