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National Justice for Animals Week

Critter News

From the better late then never category, the ALDF is having a National Justice for Animals Week to raise awareness about animal abuse. They sent me an email on the 21st, but I just got around to reading about it. Camera-ready artwork and web banners for National Justice for Animals Week are available upon request.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

10,000 Birds

Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al. Jarvis et al.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

coli O157:H7 shows that in the last year the percent of positive raw ground beef samples has dropped from to 0.30 11, 2010 To the Editor: I’ve been involved in beef safety research since college, and I don’t recognize the industry you’ve depicted in recent articles. percent from 0.47 percent at federally inspected establishments.

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Pricing challenges posed by a pandemic

Sales and Marketing Management

In a blog post about pricing in the pandemic for marketing research firm Forrester SiriusDecisions, Lisa Singer says companies trying to rebound from the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic must look for opportunities to offer low-cost or free offerings. “You These are anything but normal circumstances. They could triple their price.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled. The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

10,000 Birds

But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.” Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? How it raised its chicks? Researchers can and do provide valuable information.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

10,000 Birds

Now, there is a new study that has significant advantages of the Bumpus study, though the latter will still be useful in teaching about evolution because of its limitations and the questions it raises. Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research.

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