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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. PETA and the Alliance for Animals are asking for charges to be filed against the University of Wisconsin at Madison. From the Wisconsin State Journal.

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Man Convicted of Illegally Trafficking Live Deer

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The deer were not tested for disease. He was transporting them across state lines from Ohio to a hunting preserve in South Carolina. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison. I hope he serves the whole term.

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Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)

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Species that occur or have occurred in Florida as a result of unassisted vagrancy or dispersal from an Exotic population outside Florida, which clearly meets all tests of Establishment within their range, shall be evaluated as if they were Naturally Appearing even though they are Exotic.

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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. The colony is still big, as Naziridis told me, but the total number is now lower due to willows dying out without young saplings to replace them.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience. It’s a very mixed chapter.

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From Today's New York Times

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The law speaks specifically and narrowly to the distribution for profit of videos that show illegal acts of cruelty actually being performed on live animals (my italics). Only a very narrow range of activities come under the sweep of this law, and all of them are illegal. Lawrence A. Mandelker New York, Oct.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

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Then we are both hopeless … Anyway, the paper tests whether small roads in a forest are a hindrance to birds – are they reluctant to cross? ” The website www.jwcpheasants.com seems to endorse polygamy for this species despite this being illegal in the USA for other animals such as humans.

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