Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Animal rights activists stretched a 60-foot banner across the Hawthorne Bridge {Saturday} morning targeting the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU. Tags: animal research activism oregon national primate research center oregon. From Oregonlive.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The group had targeted about 40 firms as part of an international conspiracy to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal research laboratory based near Cambridge. Tags: europe activism huntingdon animal rights. I support their cause, but am uncomfortable with their tactics. From Reuters.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The single greatest challenge facing any book of science writing is balance. Otherwise, there would be no science writing, everyone would just go straight to the journals. ” or “What about…?” They are right, I think, in saying it is perverse that we can kill crows but not coddle them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

In this case, the signs were right. Also a sign when I spot other books by the same author on the shelf in the office of a member of my thesis committee, and on my own Christmas wish list. This is a good book. Other signs: Last night, as I was reading this in the bar, a man came up to me and asked about it (please don’t do that.)

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2009

Animal Person , someone who is clearly smarter than me, has a great analysis about the recent "Pepper" series in Slate about animal research. At least he didn't try to make me feel happy or warm and fuzzy about animal research. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

More recently, a group of developers petitioned FWS to delist the gnatcatcher because the underlying science was allegedly flawed and the coastal gnatcatcher is not really a distinct subspecies. The court also rejected the notion that Dr. Zink, would have standing to bring a claim in his own right.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Having warned to her theme she introduces her villain of the piece, the AMNH researcher Chris Filardi, who collected a kingfisher. Throughout his professional career, Chris has maintained a commitment to bridging his research interests with grassroots conservation. Science doesn’t work that way! Science Schmience.

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APRIL 16, 2013

“If you don’t feed me right way, I’m taking off this wing and your reproductive success is done!” Also, as researcher Rufus Johnstone of the University of Cambridge notes, “The question I come away with is whether it’s possible to distinguish between blackmail and honest signalling of hunger.”

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Beagle , pt.

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Critter News

MARCH 23, 2010

According to this interview, he credits animal rights extremists for fueling the public backlash against animal protection. Tags: UK animal research. Discouraging article.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 20, 2019

First, consider some behavioral science tools for adding to the quantity of your leads. Second, consider some behavioral science tools for adding to the quality of your leads. We’ll get it right.”. As subtle as these behavioral science tools may appear, researchers have found extremely powerful results.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

He writes about how experienced birders think, and how they draw on the sciences of weather, geography, and ecology to analyze where the birds will be. That’s NEXRAD radar map in the left binocular lens and a surface weather map on the right. Lovitch takes the practice of birding ten steps beyond.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

It starts with the sentence “Noomi wakes up early on Sunday morning because her right ear hurts with a dull, regular pulse.” ” Researchers studying these birds must be grateful for camera traps – one study using such traps obtained 1.74 ” Not sure if and when the coucal shows up in the story.

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MARCH 14, 2022

I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. South Africa is their steward and have been declared Special Nature Reserves under the South African Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act in 2003, which restricts activities on the islands to research and conservation management.

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SalesFuel

JULY 18, 2024

Consequently, the right questions posed at the optimal time can capture the human essence of connection, empathy and trust. The Best Sales Call Questions Originate from ‘Soft Skills’ Science suggests that self-awareness is a key component of emotional intelligence , or EQ. EQ’s boost of handling objections: 69.8%

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. That’s right – birds eating clay. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

But it is utterly bewildering to me to see news reports about this recent science that read “… An icon knocked from its perch&# or “Archaeopteryx no longer first bird.&# And this is where the latest research related to Archaeopteryx comes in. Archaeopteryx went right back to being a bird again.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This gives animal rights activists some time to prepare further defense of the animals. 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. Good way to end 2010. ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP)

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Research also suggests that the Antarctic population of blue whales may now be growing at 6% a year. Marine scientists have recorded the animals roaming migratory routes and feeding grounds in the Pacific from which they had vanished for much of the past six decades. In the Atlantic, sightings are also increasing.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2015

A case of mistaken identity, this rare and secretive species, was only officially described to science in the last year. The mistake has its origins in 1878, when ornithologists Henry Tristram and Allan Hume both collected specimens of what was then described as Hume’s owl.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. Some of the research being done then (the 1980s) was pretty naive and sometimes downright silly.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to Patty at Animal Rights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. There are many excellent books on issues related to animal research. Know Your Adversary Part of being an effective activist on animal research issues is knowing the arguments in support of animal research.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2014

The University of Texas A&M owns a research facility called the Soltis Center on a fabulous patch of primary forest. Ismael’s deep knowledge of Finca Luna Nueva and its avifauna ensured that we put ourselves in the right places at the right times. Corey and I held our own.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2013

An excellent synopsis of the situation is right here at 10,000 Birds. As novice birder David Sibley put it a few years ago, “A proposal to split Western Scrub-Jay recently failed an early vote in the checklist committee for want of more research in the contact zone.” 2 of which make their home in the United States.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

The Karlson-Rosselet BBI approach is theoretically based on hemispheric brain differences, the idea that the left side of our brain processes stimuli analytically in a linear manner and the right side of our brain processes what we see and hear creatively and holistically. There Is No Left Brain/Right Brain Divide by Stephen M.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Steve Feldman of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums questioned the credibility of the Science report because it used data from 1960 when zoo husbandry practices were considered sub-standard. And it didn't include data on poaching, a major threat to wild elephant populations.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

The research project, led by Jack Bergman of McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Belmont, Mass., was one of 12 awarded radiobiology research grants through NASA's Human Research Program, the space agency announced October 27. Another animal experiment I would not support as a US taxpayer.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. After all this, the unhappy bird would be released back into the air.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley. Right away, we have a definition problem — those who hold to any kind of mind-body dualism are unlikely to be swayed by the ideas in this book.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

To make it happen, you need to apply messaging and design principles from brain science. they need to remember the right thing. That’s where these four principles, all backed by brain science, can make all the difference. Tim Riesterer is chief strategy and research officer at Corporate Visions. Control your message.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As if eBird, the marvelous citizen science produced database of bird sightings, wasn’t awesome enough, you can now have an eBird profile that is viewable by other eBird users. I don’t want some researcher a hundred years from now wondering if my single-observer White-winged Dove in Queens was real so I had to add a photo.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2016

Perfect is a big word, and using it right in the title of your book invites close scrutiny. Birkhead is not unaware of the difficulties here but he ultimately seems to regard these men warmly, as forefathers. Given the specifics of his project I can’t even entirely fault him for that.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2024

As I am sure I have mentioned before, a lot of science work seems to aim to prove the obvious – though the researchers still phrase their results very carefully. Of course, me being me, this is a good reason to show it. ” Or in my words: If you are sick, it is hard to get fat (but please do not take this as dietary advice).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

southern Australia’s cool winter weather and wonderful birds sound mighty appealing right now and 2. And so it’s July, which for this North American birder means a couple of things: 1. A Speckled Mousebird ( Colius striatus ) poses in Nairobi. Mousebirds remain one of the mysteries in avian systematics.

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