Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Daniel Engber, senior editor at Slate , has posted the first of a five-part series about animals used for research. A Dalmatian, stolen and sold for research, she was likely terrified and probably in enormous pain when she was killed, a couple of weeks after she was taken. Pepper was a beloved family pet.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Indeed, most of what we knew about Emperor Penguins before Kooyman’s research expeditions was about their breeding behavior and physiology. Kooyman was there to work at McMurdo Station (a large American research station that we hear about throughout the book) as technical assistant on a science mission involving fish.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future. From Part I, “Shorebirds in Winter,” p. 41; © 2024 by Pete Dunne and Kevin T.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He also believes that we are living in an era of incredible scientific research, one in which new genetic technology and findings from diverse scientific disciplines have turned assumptions upside down, opened up new lines of thought, and provided answers, or at least probable answers, to many of our questions about why birds do the things they do.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2024

” A group of nine researchers published a paper titled “Exploring the fecal microbiome of the Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)” Makes you wonder what they talked about during their lunch breaks. This is particularly interesting as newish research indicates that Common and Hoary Redpolls are actually the same species.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2023

From my experience, the gulling season is definitively winter. Mars Muusse is a Dutch birder specializing in gulls and the founder of a famous gull identification website Gull Research Organization. Detailed range maps with a textual range description for each species are included. The colder – the better. I hate the cold.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Author: TIM HOULIHAN In a 2018 survey, Bain & Company discovered that 80 percent of companies believe their customer experience is not only better than average, it’s “superior.” The trouble is that in the same survey, only 8 percent of customers believed they were receiving a superior experience. Organize for customer experience.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. These researchers preferred this property for their research due to its close proximity to the Arenal Volcano and resplendent natural environment.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Currently endemic to a single valley system in the Andes of Ecuador, this species escaped detection from researchers for thirty years until the rediscovery of a few pairs in November 1998 by Dr. Neils Krabbe. At the time of its rediscovery, only about a half-dozen pairs were known to exist.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. I would also love to have more documentation of the many books, articles, research points, and stories that Dunn relates, at the very least a list of sources. Is all that material on Selkirk needed? Still, I would really love to see this in some form.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. And, likely, this sort of thing is most likely found, and most likely complex and important, in organisms that have that very costly but important physical adaptation known as brains. My research in the Congo supports this idea.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Teaser: The Incentive Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds research and fosters education on all aspects of the incentive travel industry, has identified 10 trends that will help users understand what’s in store for the future. read more'

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

” The interlocking wheels of crabs, migration, birds, tides, marsh, beach, fishermen and researchers are described in an unhurried pace in ten chapters. Once used as fertilizer, the crabs are now harvested as bait for common whelk and bled for an extract used in medical research.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Various non biological and biological processes can sort isotopes out by their mass so that individual organisms in a certain environment or in a certain position in a food web will have a particular stable isotopic signature. My own experience at catching catfish (big ones!) Catfish in the range of 1.0

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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Critter News

JULY 31, 2010

April Jean Evans was a NASA engineer, but resigned her position in protest over radiation experiments on monkeys. She's living with her brother now and falling into debt, but she is dedicated to working with PETA and other organizations to try to ban primates in experiments. That takes a lot of courage and conviction.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Organizers and speakers are reinventing virtual events. That’s been by necessity: In a world where 73% of attendees are still pining for in-person events (only 4% of respondents to a recent survey feel that virtual events are more valuable than in-person), some event organizers and speakers are taking on the challenge. Even when (if?)

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SalesFuel

MAY 21, 2024

Edelman Research suggests that businesses are wasting some of their investment in this area. One reason for this disconnect may be because 26% “say their organization lacks the skills to produce high-quality content.” This content would expand the organization’s reputation as a thought leader in the industry. That’s a wise move.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 25, 2024

Smart and Agile Account Management Will Boost Your Sales Career As the primary point of contact, you know your accounts better than anyone in your organization. Yet, a recent survey found that half (52%) of sales organizations do not currently measure the strength of customer relationships.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 26, 2024

In any organization, the top sellers often make quota. Instead of spending hours looking for the latest industry research, they can use easily-accessible data in their communications. Our research finds nearly 50% of buyers seek sellers with experience in their line of business. What metrics do you use to measure them?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 1, 2017

It stings that much more when the individual is a top performer whose experience fell short of their expectations. Today’s work environment makes seller retention even more challenging as Millennial, Gen X, and Baby Boomer sellers have very different expectations of their job, their managers, and their organization overall.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2019

Further, the landscape is expanding – 81 percent of potential buyers conduct online research prior to purchase, and 30 percent of all ecommerce purchases are from mobile devices. But simply having a presence in multiple channels isn’t enough – a true omni-channel experience is a seamless buying experience for the customer.

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SalesFuel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In the SHRM survey, around 54% of organizations report using pre-employment assessments. If the assessments show candidate strength, employers are also willing to accept applicants who lack experience. Nearly 75% of HR pros believe assessments can increase the “quality of their organization’s hires.”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2023

As usual, my experience with such boardwalks was somewhat underwhelming, as was Eshowe as a whole, but there were still a few birds worth mentioning at the forest and in the area surrounding Eshowe. At vulture family gatherings, it is always a bit of a bother for the organizers to cater to the needs of the Palm Nut Vulture.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The birding process is stripped to the essentials without losing the significance of important, sometimes complex ideas—migration, habitat, research, documentation, community. We need more publishers of quality birding books and more birder-writers offering fresh views, sharing their experiences, covering new, niche subjects.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Foremost, there is the story of the recent expedition to the Philippine rainforest led by Rettig, whose participants include expedition coordinator Dr. Laura Johnson (also Rettig’s spouse, a fact that is only gently alluded to; I think the expedition could not have happened without her organizing skills), and nature cinematographer Skip Hobbie.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 4, 2009

But there are other scenarios, such as some that PCRM has suggested in the past, that do make sense; where the goal is to alter policy within a company regarding, say, research using animals when that's not required. Or putting money into researching alternatives. Madeleine Pickens (yes, that Pickens--T.

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SalesFuel

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Selecting Your Leadership Team Through Assessment Data A new study released by researchers at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business sheds light on leadership appointment trends. Specifically, the researchers found that ambitious employees want the “power, status and financial rewards” that come with a leadership role.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

The 24 groups of birds are organized into nine broad categories—Waterbirds, Coastal Birds, Seabirds, Large Shorebirds, Skulkers, Birds of Forest and Edge, Aerial Insectivores, Night Birds, Open-Country Birds. Sullivan are birders as well as writers, researchers, and organizational administrators, and this makes a big difference.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Universities like Harvard, Columbia and Cornell regularly use the research facility. From 2004-2007 James worked as the Managing Director of Africa Foundation, a non-profit organization that directs its efforts towards the uplifting of communities surrounding wildlife areas in Africa.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2020

In fact, research from Harvard Business Review indicates that the No. Sellers can personalize the workspace to refine their experiences. For announcements, organizations can link to all the right content and tools to help educate the seller, helping them understand, position and articulate the value of the new solution to prospects.

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SalesFuel

AUGUST 15, 2024

According to research , the way to fend off boredom is to stagger mundane tasks with meaningful tasks throughout the day. Researchers from Notre Dame’s college of business studied how boredom upsets productivity; Heidi Mitchell commented on wsj.com. It turns out that trying to suppress boredom leads to further ineffectiveness.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The modern, pragmatic organization of the species accounts and the sections on habitat and conservation add to the guide’s usefulness. He leads the Wildlife Art Working Group of BirdsCaribbean , and contributes his art to conservation organizations for fundraising. And, it is beautiful to look at. by Nils Navarro.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Today, as many as 88 percent of consumers perform online research ahead of time before they buy a product. Online reviews and company websites are the two primary platforms for research, but other channels such as social media can provide valuable information, too. When customers convert, ask them how they got there.

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