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More than a contest, AWJAC inspires future leaders

AVMA News

Now in its 24th year, the AVMA Animal Welfare Assessment Contest and is one way undergraduates, graduate students, veterinary students, and AVMA members can learn more about the important topic of animal welfare. Former participants credit the contest as being a life-changing experience.

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Two Blogs, Two Views on Experimenting on Chimps

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Here's a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania with an interesting post about the same issue, wondering how much we really need to experiment on chimps. Tags: chimpanzees medical research animal welfare. Here's his post about it.

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Key AETA Supporter Suspended Over Animal Welfare

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From Current.com She was recently suspended from working with animals, a “rare move prompted by what officials called a ‘clear pattern’ of problems with animal welfare.” Now, she's been suspended from working with animals.

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Millions of Animals Used in EU Experiments

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If the directive is approved, the number of animals used for experiments will be limited, and the animals’ welfare will be improved in accordance with ethical principles of the EU concerning animals. I really hope this passes.

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A close encounter with a Wedge-tailed Eagle

10,000 Birds

The Blue-tongued Lizard that was also having the same experience was definitely not as excited and was trying its hardest to protect itself. The Wedge-tailed Eagle only had a meal on its mind and I only had photographs and the health and welfare of a lizard on my mind.

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Sniping: The Final Frontier?

10,000 Birds

As curious as I was to confidently identify the bird, I still held its welfare above all other things and tried to cause it as little trouble as possible. The experience emboldened me to revisit some of my older images, this snipe seen in January 2019 is clearly a Wilson’s Snipe as evidenced by the extensive black on its tertials.

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Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting

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An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the Animal Welfare Act.

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