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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAFQ5kUHPkY |
Kristina Wiltjer
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The video that I watch was about two monkeys. They were separated by plastic guard with a hole large enough to fit their hands through. On one side the monkey had a rock, on the other the monkey had the nuts but couldn’t get to them without the rock. This was an experiment to see if they were capable of sharing. The monkey with the rock offers the one with the nuts in hope that he would share after opening it. When the monkey finally opened the casing, he took three nuts and gave it to him.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNWrFmCCfXw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKjxp6L7UDM
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Denise Belmonte
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The first video shows the polar bear Knut in the Berlin Zoo in Germany frolicking around just generally being adorable. He gained a great deal of attention in the media, first only in Germany, and then internationally. I found this little one about 3 years ago, and tracked his story ever since. He was born in captivity in the zoo, but his mother wanted no part in taking care of him or his brother. Unfortunately, his brother died shortly after, but under the caring watch of Thomas Dörflein, Knut ended up just fine. Thomas Dörflein literally devoted his life to Knut for the next few months, and I admired him greatly for that. The importance of Knut is his impact on the global warming issue. In a way, the cute, playful polar bear cub put a face to global warming, whose true habitat will be destroyed if nothing is done to protect it. Knut had a profound impact on me, as he influenced me to take a global change class as a biology elective (not exaggerating), and that class greatly influenced my view on the environment. On a side note, Knut turned 4 December 5th.
The second video is simply a cockatoo dancing to Backstreet Boys. He really gets into it.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com
/article/484399/childrens_books_implications
_of_fictional.html
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Jessica Furtado
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I work in a children's room at a public library and couldn't help but to notice that at least 50% of the books that I shelve use animals as their protagonists. This article discusses the potential problems of the prevalence of animal characters in children's literature. Children can develop unreal expectations of animals and expect them to possess human qualities
due to the personification of animals that many authors employ. Until a certain age, children have trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality and can become confused by the conflicting roles of animals in life and in fiction.
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http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/scientists-to-study-animals-feelings-20101208-18p7k.html
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Jen Hader
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In Australian scientists are looking to study animals feelings in hopes of reducing stress in livestock animals. They believe by understanding the way animals emotions work, animal welfare will improve. This is a very progressive step in trying to improve the quality of animals lives. Maybe their study will bring some insight to the human community about the pain we cause animals and how our actions negatively affect their way of life.
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| http://www.freedomservicedogs.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19 |
Nick Bouchard |
This is a video from the program known as freedom service dogs, which helps to provide veterans with service dogs to help them be more independent after they return home with the array of disabilities they may have. With thousands of soldiers returning home from Iraqi and Afghanistan in the next few years, this program will definitely grow. However, the need from this dogs clearly out weights the supply of these trained animals. They not only help veterans who have physical disabilities, but can also provide veterans with a companion so they do not feel alone when they return home. Many people say that since they have had a service dog, their post dramatic stress syndrome has not been as much of a problem compared to when they did not have a service dog. In turn, this is one program that we can be proud of with the way we use animals to help others. |
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http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/annals-of-russian-barbarism-yup-you-guessed-it-now-theyre-tattooing-cats/
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Jenna David |
I was watching a show called Weird, Freaky, and Trueon Animal Planet last week. The episode that caught my attention had to due with tattooing animals. Tattooing pets is a new phenomenon that is happening around the world. Dogs, cats, pigs, and even fish are getting inked. The cat pictured to the left was on the show. I am appauled by this new trend. This particular cat had to be placed under anesthesiafor over three hours. In the United States veterinarians are usually unwilling to put animals under for this one purpose. Even with anesthesia I still think this is animal cruelty. |
| http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2010/03/bombsniffing-rats-save-lives-in-africa.html |
Zachary Conroy
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This article is about bomb sniffing rats used to clear landmines in several countries in Africa. The rats, which are African Giant Pouched rats, are different than normal sized rats seen in America as they can grow up to thirty inches long and three pounds and live up to eight years. They live long enough and are intelligent enough to gain experience, as it takes six months to year to train them, yet they are small and light enough to not trigger many mines. In Mozambique, the rats have cleared more than 1.3 million acres, giving 45,000 people their land back. The rats have also used their outstanding sense of smell to verify tuberculosis tests in African hospitals.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN99Kx_ghC8
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Sam Erickson |
I have always been interested in the octopus so I chose this video, which I found pretty interesting and cool. It’s all about how they can use camouflage to hide from prey and mimic other sea life. It also shows that they are much more intelligent that one might think and can recognize signs and rewards like some other animals like dogs do. I just thought it was an interesting entertaining clip.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktgACq4zcAU
http://www.physorg.com/news194539934.html
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Peter Baroud
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In class we had been talking about Biotechnology and genetic engineering. I have always had an interest in both subjects, and thought I'd share the attached two links. In the attached links, there is a video and article about scientists who breed a special kind of engineered goat. "Researchers from the University of Wyoming have developed a way to incorporate spiders' silk-spinning genes into goats, allowing the researchers to harvest the silk protein from the goats’ milk for a variety of applications. For instance, due to its strength and elasticity, spider silk fiber could have several medical uses, such as for making artificial ligaments and tendons, for eye sutures, and for jaw repair. The silk could also have applications in bulletproof vests and improved car airbags." |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/
photogalleries/101207-top-ten-weird-new-animals-2010/#/wood-eating-armored-catfish-log_26196_600x450.jpg
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/1
2/101203-homosexual-birds-mercury-science/
http://animal.discovery.com/petsource/bully-bree
ds/quizzes-myths/5-myths-debunked.html
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Alicia Robillon |
These are a collection of interesting links that I found on National Geographic and Discovery. The first article is about the top 10 weirdest animal discoveries of 2010. It lists strange new animal species that were discovered this year, mostly in the Amazon and Papua, New Guinea. This always amazes me because it illustrates the extreme biodiversity in these places just for the simple fact that we are still discovering new species. If we let these areas peril, hundreds of animals (and plants) we never knew existed could be gone forever (along with potential cures for diseases…). The seconds is a rather strange article about a study that found mercury to be causing some birds to act homosexually. Also relates to ecological problems and pollutions that are causing strange side effects. The last article sort of has to do with my paper topic and it lists 5 myths about bully breed dogs and explains why they are false. Just interesting and relative to my paper J. |
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/eu
rope/article4595810.ece
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Matthew Flynn |
This article raises the question, do animals have emotions? This article states how the majority of scientists now believe that animals have emotions. They used examples how animals feel grief and show signs of depression when another animal dies. |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYPm6DD44
M&feature=related
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Samantha Ruminski |
The video that I posted was something that we had touched upon briefly in class about animal intelligence. The video shows a couple of ravens that are doing a strategic test to get a sample of food. These birds have the biggest brain out of almost all bird species. I found it interesting because we usually do not associate animals with using higher cognitive skills. |
| http://www.aavs.org/researchPsychology.html |
Theresa James |
In class we discussed animals being used as test subjects for things such as make-up and medical testing. While looking for info on my paper I came across this articele that talks about animals being used as testing subjects for psycholigical testing and drug addiction testing. |
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http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon
/2010/08/18/when_animals_attack
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Asma Hussin |
I found this article about 'animals and film'
by Matt Zoller Seitz
to be interesting. It is about how people tend to be enthralled in movies that depict animals as aggressive or deadly. The author makes note that this fascination with dangerous animals is due to a combination of guilt and rationalization felt by the public. He contends that people feel guilty because of the way they treat animals. Moreover, that people justify their behavior towards animals by presenting them in a frightening image and portraying them always in a negative light.
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http://www.americanhumane.org/protecting-animals/
programs/no-animals-were-harmed/
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Sarah Chaulk
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In thinking about the final upload the statement "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" popped into my head. As it turns out American Humane Association is the organization in charge of overseeing animal safety on movie sets. On the site are the guidelines for animal safety on movie sets. Safety Representatives are in charge of rating the animal treatment on set. It ranges from outstanding to to unacceptable. This is an interesting site. I always wondered where that statement came from.
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/travel/news/zoo-
plays-dress-up-to-fool-panda/story-e6frezi0-1225966775197
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Shannon Nelligan |
This article is about a zoo in China that’s taking an odd approach to help Panda cubs enter the wild. In order to re-introduce the cubs to the wild, scientists are dressing up in panda suits to disguise themselves so that the pandas will never be exposed to humans and will be better able to adapt to a wild environment. |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bG103hHkUU |
Jeffrey Nieves |
This video is talks about the abuse, torture, and killing of Asian elephants in India. The elephants have been losing much of their territory due to industrialization. These elephants are moving closer and closer the areas inhabited by people and some of them are causing problems. Though there may be some incidents caused by the animal, the cruel methods used by the Indian government to control these problems are inhumane and unethical. In one instance and elephant was held without food and water for 18 days constantly beaten until it finally died.
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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/12/07/
dnt.dog.saves.paralyzed.man.kvue?iref=allsearch
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Daniel Bauer
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This video is about a cyclist who was saved by his 4 year old golden retriever. The man took a fall on his bike and his dog whom normally is quiet and happy. The man lay there unable to move but the dog found people walking down the street where he got their attention and led him to the injured cyclist. If had not been for the dog, the cyclist would have suffered even greater injuries.
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http://www.npr.org/2010/12/08/131906415/dives-t
o-gulf-seafloor-turn-up-sea-life-near-well
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Maghda Amrani |
Months after the oil spill has occured off the coast of Mexico, many people not directly affected seem to forget about it and not even realize the after affects. While this article almost seems positive at first by depicting the clear water, and things seeming to coming back to order. Yet, its shows the eco system is not able to evolve quick enough from the amojnts of oil that was spewing into this water. Also, the fish living their either dying or being forced to migrate into other areas not as affected. Which is not natural, and could cause issues in those areas they have moved to. |
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http://www.economist.com/node/17572242
The Fat Cat Cometh
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Kelley Irving |
This article talks about a study conducted by a researcher on the increased body weight of animals. He took a number of populations from different species including cats, dogs, mice and monkeys. The results showed that not just our pets are getting fatter, but other species as well, specifically lab animals. I thought the research was a little confusing, but still interesting. |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM&feature=related |
Aaron Widell |
This is a video filmed in Africa by a tourist on Safari. It is a really cool example of how mother nature cannot always be predicted. In this video, a pack of wildebeests overcome an attack from a pack of lions. Its very inspiring and worth the eight minutes. |
| http://www.monkeyhelpers.org/ |
Heather McAtamney
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This is actually one of the resources that I am using for my final project. I found this site to be interesting and informing when it comes to using monkeys as aids to those that are paralyzed. This particular group is based out of Mass, it started at Harvard University, and then went on to expand at the Mendon MA Zoo. These monkeys are trained to pick up things, bring things, turn pages, and aid in other daily activites to help people be more independent. They may also work for 20 years, as they have a fairly long life span.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-RJKhVqpc |
Benjamin Chapman |
This video was created by the World society for the Protection of Animals. As stated in the video they promote humane slaughter methods, ethical transport of animals, humane and sustainable farming systems that are better for environment, fairer to rural communities, and safer for humans. Their ending claim is that their goal is to promote healthier and happier lives for humans and animals. The video begins by stating that factory farming is the biggest cause of animal suffering in the world, over 60 billion animals are reared for eggs, meat, and other food products each year. Most of these animals are caged and confined to extremely small areas causing deformaties and other problems. This video was definitely bias towards animal welfare but with good reason and it didn't seem to be too over the top with its' presentation. |
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http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/14/technology-aims-to-replace-animal-testing.html
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ben anderson
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This article talks about how the cosmetic company loreal has been working with hurel corp. to develop an alternative to animal testing. They are able to replicate a skin cell that reactions the same as normal one and can show allergy and reactions. It is still in early stages but is estimated to be available by the second half of next year.
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