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New Zealand, Australia to Conduct Whale Research Too

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New Zealand and Australia are joining forces to carry out research on whales using non-lethal methods, in an attempt to challenge Japan's hunting programme. The scientists hope their research will help to disprove Japan's claims that whales have to be killed if they are to be properly studied.

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Less Birds Around Fukushima

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A team of researchers has found that the populations of common birds around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan has plummeted. Most disturbingly, the populations of species that the area has in common with Chernobyl has fallen more in Fukushima than they did in the site of worst nuclear disaster in world history.

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Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals

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Here's a post on the Red, Green and Blue blog about the unspeakable trade in macaque monkeys as research subjects. Around 10,000 are bred and exported from Mauritius to the US, UK and Japan. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates medical research.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions. Yet, the research projects are never the whole story.

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Red-necked Stint with a Japanese flag

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As a result of the “ Shorebird Colour flagging protocol on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway” I knew that this little shorebird weighing no more than 30 grams had been flagged in Northern Japan. Hokkaido is a “birdwatchers paradise” according to the Japan National Tourism website !

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GARBO TALKS!

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And now, researchers from Japan, Germany and Sweden confirmed what I knew all the time, like if I needed them to tell me so. Conservation research tits According to some very rude finches, I was merely wasting my time by their bush, annoying them in the process. Japanese Great Tit, credit: Toshitaka Suzuki.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of December 2012?

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The mundane details that actually allow a trip to happen are tedious, but researching all those potential birds… huge fun! Because I’ll be birding Japan this weekend en route to Singapore! Your theoretical trip list will always be so much more extensive and exotic than your actual list. Why is travel on my mind?

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