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Groups Seek Charges in Sheep Decompression Tests

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You heard it right.sheep decompression tests. It is illegal in Wisconsin to kill an animal by means of decompression. The university stopped conducting the experiments last fall when it learned that it may have been violating state law, said Eric Sandgren, who oversees animal research at UW-Madison.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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For long it was assumed that the saplings cannot survive being under water half a year, from spring to August, but recently another theory was tested. Hence, the experiment was created: a plot was fenced off to keep the animals away and now willow saplings did survive being submerged for half a year.

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