Not exact matches
When they plugged individual species
data for vertebrates that depend on the tropical forest for food and
shelter and deforestation patterns from 1970 to 2008
into their model, it projected that 80 — 90 % of extinctions caused by previous rainforest loss are yet to come.
In the coming days, we'll also have a guest post from DNA My Dog's founder, Mindy Tenenbaum, about how the easy - to - use cheek swab DNA test is helpful for
shelter staff who can use the
data to help place their furry adoptees
into their perfect forever homes!
Continuing our look
into the animal
shelter open
data for the city
shelters in Austin and Sacramento, we see how to wrangle the
data so that it can be analyzed using R, the popular software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
But the truth is, without accurate
data about which animals are coming
into your
shelter and why, which animals are making it out alive and which are not, you have no way of knowing how to improve your performance.
Access to the
data gives you, as a taxpayer or donor, insight
into animal
shelter facts and how the
shelters in your area are performing.
To track results, baseline
data will be gathered on the number of felines brought
into the
shelters, the number euthanized and the number saved through adoption or return to field.
Published in the November, 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, «Prevalence of serum antibody titers against feline panleukopenia virus, feline herpesvirus 1, and feline calicivirus in cats entering a Florida animal
shelter,» presented
data indicating the majority of cats coming
into a
shelter do not have immunity to the common feline diseases feline panleukopenia virus (FPV), feline herpesvirus 1 (FHV1) and feline calicivirus (FCV).
We have conducted a couple of surveys around lost pets and have also dug
into a set of
shelter data for the past couple of years, and with those
data sets we simply do not see strong evidence that the Fourth of July is the biggest day for pet loss.
Dr. Emily Weiss has been digging
into the
data and wonders... Are adoptions up and intake down at your
shelter?