Even before Kaplan and Miklósi introduced AIBO to Fido, a handful
of animal researchers in Europe, the United States, and Japan were busy conducting experiments with their own animal robots, including a flirtatious bowerbird and a furry white ratbot.
In a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to
protect animal researchers against illegal attacks, a British court yesterday convicted four people of conspiring to blackmail companies that supply an animal testing laboratory.
On Monday, a U.K. court convicted four animal - rights activists of threatening companies that supply an animal testing laboratory, a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect
animal researchers against illegal attacks.
In understandable enthusiasm for their cause, animal advocates,
like animal researchers, sometimes seem to believe that the ends justify any means, and Thomas Derr's «Animal Rights, Human Rights» (February) contains cogent arguments against a number of the positions and practices of animal advocacy.
Tackling a long - standing disconnect between animal and human studies, some charge that
animal researchers need stricter safeguards and better statistics to ensure their science is solid.
Based on past studies from
several animal researchers, the Johns Hopkins team knew that extinguishing fearful memories requires receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate.
This improvement in the education of
young animal researchers has had a major positive impact on the planning and execution of animal experiments, which is an important Refinement.
The survey polled a total of 755 researchers from 26 countries, and detailed analysis of the results indicates that there is a strong commitment
among animal researchers across Europe to put into practice the principles of the 3Rs (Refine, Reduce, Replace)
While researchers have known for awhile now that the blubber of these animals contain toxins, they're now seeing the those
Read the writings
of animal researchers, with PhD's, studying the behavior of fish, cattle, apes, whales, dolphins, rodents, bees, birds, wolves, lions, hyena, and so forth.
Animal researchers, says Garner, will have to embrace statistical methods that compensate for a greater range of variability.
«We didn't know what was going on until I talked with a large -
animal researcher,» he recalls.
Critics are also wary of the report's call for the White House to create a new advisory panel made up of
animal researchers.
Last Friday at ScienceInsider, Tania Rabesandratana reported that in the United Kingdom,
animal researchers and animal - rights activists both approve of a proposal by the U.K. government that would scrap outdated confidentiality rules and make animal research more transparent.
This behavior quickly became a hallmark of consciousness to
animal researchers, partly because it was so testable.
The results are significant for
both animal researchers and the public.
As Lawrence Arthur Hansen pointed out two years ago in the Journal of Medical Ethics, oversight committees are disproportionately composed of the very people who derive their livelihood from continuing these experiments:
animal researchers and institutional veterinarians.
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Animal researchers are supposed to avoid unnecessary and duplicative studies.
By contrast, during the late Cretaceous period, Antarctica was downright balmy, home to dinosaurs and all manner of other plants and
animals researchers would love to get a look at today, if only they could get at their fossilized remains.
Dr Shane Maloney,
an animal researcher whose findings are published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, said: «If environmental effects are the cause of the decline, then we can expect the proportion of dark coloured Soay sheep to decrease further.»
This post, signed by over 90 scientists, is in response to an article published 09/04/16 in the New York Times titled: «Second thoughts of
an animal researcher.»