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Animal welfare competition tests critical thinking, ethical judgement skills

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The Fall 2024 AVMA Animal Welfare Assessment Contest, also known as AWJAC, recently brought together hundreds of competitors from across North America and Europe to apply science-based methods and ethical standards to assess the welfare of animals in a variety of settings.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

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Some Hokkaido Winter Passerines

10,000 Birds

In science speak, this is named the optimal body mass hypothesis. Bad news for splitters, but good news for people like me who would not be able to make such a fine distinction anyway. This is particularly interesting as newish research indicates that Common and Hoary Redpolls are actually the same species.

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Good News for the Alamagordo Chimps!

Critter News

Bill Richardson on Thursday the chimps will not be transferred to a San Antonio, Texas, facility until the National Academy of Sciences reviews policies on using chimpanzees in biomedical research. The chimps have been free from testing at the Alamogordo Primate Facility at Holloman Air Force Base since 2001.

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Pam Anderson Urges End to India's Animal Testing

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Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. Anderson, famous for slow-motion beach running scenes in the hit 1990s lifeguard TV show, wrote to R.C.

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Europeans Continue to Search for Alternatives to Animal Research.Why Not Americans?

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From Cordis News. At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. Are animal rights organizations more effective? Are politicians more willing to act?

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Bird Butts and Other Matters

10,000 Birds

There is a bit of science news. We test the hypothesis that these suites of traits have evolved independently on each island via natural selection pressures from one of two predator regimes – birds-only and birds + snakes. But there were a gazillion of them.