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Food Animals Are Suffering Oct 1978

Food Animals Are Suffering

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HSUS intensifies campaign to eliminate cruelty on 'factory farms'


Euthanasia Of Dogs And Cats: An Analysis Of Experience And Current Knowledge With Recommendations For Research, T. Carding, M. W. Fox Aug 1978

Euthanasia Of Dogs And Cats: An Analysis Of Experience And Current Knowledge With Recommendations For Research, T. Carding, M. W. Fox

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1978 Special Report prepared by the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems


Hsus Investigation Leads To Fifty Arrests In Cockfight Raid Jun 1978

Hsus Investigation Leads To Fifty Arrests In Cockfight Raid

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Participants fined up to $500


Oil-Soaked Birds Saved Apr 1978

Oil-Soaked Birds Saved

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HSUS participates in historic bird rescue


Oil-Soaked Birds Saved: Hsus Participates In Historic Bird Rescue Apr 1978

Oil-Soaked Birds Saved: Hsus Participates In Historic Bird Rescue

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As the world watched the black tide of crude oil from the Amoco Cadiz devastate bird life along the French coast, HSUS staffer Guy Hodge was reporting to Congress about efforts to save oil-soaked birds in a recent Chesapeake Bay oil spill. A barge (ATC- 133) carrying nearly 500,000 gallons of crude had run aground south of the Maryland-Virginia border. Some of its cargo spilled into this North American waterfowl wintering area.

Together with HSUS cruelty investigator Phil Steward, Hodge had assisted in the most successful on-site bird rescue operation in history. One out of every three rescued birds was …


Hsus Fights Cruelty In Pounds Mar 1978

Hsus Fights Cruelty In Pounds

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Unlike privately owned animal shelters, the pound was not instituted for the benefit of the animals.


Museum Victory For Animal Rights, Henry Spira Feb 1978

Museum Victory For Animal Rights, Henry Spira

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Quantitative Analyses Of The Ontogeny Of Predatory Behaviour In Coyotes, Canis Latrans, Louis E. Vincent, Marc Bekoff Feb 1978

Quantitative Analyses Of The Ontogeny Of Predatory Behaviour In Coyotes, Canis Latrans, Louis E. Vincent, Marc Bekoff

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Four infant coyotes (Canis latrans) were studied in order to describe quantitatively the development of predatory behaviour. Our results indicated that prior play and agonistic experience had virtually no effect on later predatory success. Also, there was no relationship between an individual's social rank and its prey-killing ability. Latency to kill was shortened when animals were tested in, pair and hunger level was not related to latency to kill. The results are discussed with respect to current 'functionalist' theories of play behaviour and Leyhausen's concept of the relative hierarchy of moods. The practice theory of play should be reconsidered in …