"Professor, Does My Dog Know I'M Blind?", 2010 Animal Studies Repository
"Professor, Does My Dog Know I'M Blind?", Harold Herzog
'Animals and Us' Blog Posts
Can we know what animals know about what we know?
"Professor, Does My Dog Know I'M Blind?", 2010 Animal Studies Repository
"Professor, Does My Dog Know I'M Blind?", Harold Herzog
Harold Herzog, PhD
Salmon For Terrestrial Protected Areas, 2010 University of California, Santa Cruz
Salmon For Terrestrial Protected Areas, Chris T. Darimont, Heather M. Bryan, Stephanie M. Carlson, Morgan D. Hocking, Misty Macduffee, Paul C. Paquet, Michael H. H. Price, Thomas E. Reimchen, John D. Reynolds, Christopher C. Wilmers
Environment and Nature Conservation Collection
Although managers safeguard protected areas for migratory species, little consideration has been given to how migratory species might benefit parks. Additionally, whereas land‐sea connections are considered in management of protected areas, most effort has focused on reducing negative “downstream” processes. Here, we offer a proposal to promote positive “upstream” processes by safeguarding the seasonal pulse of marine nutrients imported into freshwater and riparian ecosystems by spawning migrations of Pacific salmon. Currently, high rates of fishing limit this important contribution to species and processes that terrestrial parks were designed to protect. Accordingly, we propose limiting exploitation in areas and periods through …
An Assessment Of The Use Of Chimpanzees In Hepatitis C Research Past, Present And Future: 2. Alternative Replacement Methods, 2010 New England Anti-Vivisection Society
An Assessment Of The Use Of Chimpanzees In Hepatitis C Research Past, Present And Future: 2. Alternative Replacement Methods, Jarrod Bailey
Experimentation Collection
The use of chimpanzees in hepatitis C virus (HCV) research was examined in the report associated with this paper (1: Validity of the Chimpanzee Model), in which it was concluded that claims of past necessity of chimpanzee use were exaggerated, and that claims of current and future indispensability were unjustifiable. Furthermore, given the serious scientific and ethical issues surrounding chimpanzee experimentation, it was proposed that it must now be considered redundant — particularly in light of the demonstrable contribution of alternative methods to past and current scientific progress, and the future promise that these methods hold. This paper builds on …
An Assessment Of The Use Of Chimpanzees In Hepatitis C Research Past, Present And Future: 1. Validity Of The Chimpanzee Model, 2010 New England Anti-Vivisection Society
An Assessment Of The Use Of Chimpanzees In Hepatitis C Research Past, Present And Future: 1. Validity Of The Chimpanzee Model, Jarrod Bailey
Experimentation Collection
The USA is the only significant user of chimpanzees in biomedical research in the world, since many countries have banned or limited the practice due to substantial ethical, economic and scientific concerns. Advocates of chimpanzee use cite hepatitis C research as a major reason for its necessity and continuation, in spite of supporting evidence that is scant and often anecdotal. This paper examines the scientific and ethical issues surrounding chimpanzee hepatitis C research, and concludes that claims of the necessity of chimpanzees in historical and future hepatitis C research are exaggerated and unjustifiable, respectively. The chimpanzee model has several major …
Arkansas Animal Science Department Report 2010, 2010 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Arkansas Animal Science Department Report 2010, David L. Kreider
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Series
No abstract provided.
Economic Contribution Of The Agricultural Sector To The Arkansas Economy In 2008, 2010 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Economic Contribution Of The Agricultural Sector To The Arkansas Economy In 2008, Jennie Popp, Nathan Kemper, Wayne Miller, Katherine Mcgraw, Kyle Karr
Research Reports and Research Bulletins
This report is the fifth in a series of reports examining agriculture’s economic contribution to the Arkansas economy. Utilizing data from the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), USDA Economics Research Service (ERS), USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), and Minnesota IMPLAN Group, Inc. (MIG), the economic contribution of agriculture on the Arkansas economy was estimated for the most recent year available, 2008. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by State information for Arkansas was compared with those of other states in the southeast U.S. to give a measure of the relative importance of agriculture in Arkansas.2 The total economic contribution …
Vocal Learning In Grey Parrots: A Brief Review Of Perception, Production, And Cross-Species Comparisons, 2010 Harvard University
Vocal Learning In Grey Parrots: A Brief Review Of Perception, Production, And Cross-Species Comparisons, Irene M. Pepperberg
Sentience Collection
This chapter briefly reviews what is known—and what remains to be understood—about Grey parrot vocal learning. I review Greys’ physical capacities—issues of auditory perception and production—then discuss how these capacities are used in vocal learning and can be recruited for referential communication with humans. I discuss cross-species comparisons where applicable and conclude with a description of recent research that integrates issues of reference, production and perception.
Eating Disorders: The Dark Side Of Vegetarianism, 2010 Animal Studies Repository
Eating Disorders: The Dark Side Of Vegetarianism, Harold Herzog
'Animals and Us' Blog Posts
Is the Skinny Bitch Diet dangerous?
The Effect Of Claw Horn Disruption Lesions And Body Condition Score At Dry-Off On Survivability, Reproductive Performance, And Milk Production In The Subsequent Lactation, 2010 Cornell University
The Effect Of Claw Horn Disruption Lesions And Body Condition Score At Dry-Off On Survivability, Reproductive Performance, And Milk Production In The Subsequent Lactation, V. S. Machado, L. S. Caixeta, J. A. A. Mcart, R. C. Bicalho
Farm Animal Welfare Collection
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of claw horn disruption lesions (CHDL; sole ulcers and white line disease) and body condition score (BCS) at dry-off on survivability, milk production, and reproductive performance during the subsequent lactation. An observational prospective cohort study was conducted on a large commercial dairy in Cayuga County, New York, from September 2008 until January 2009. A total of 573 cows enrolled at dry-off were scored for body condition and hoof trimmed; digits were visually inspected for the presence of CHDL. The BCS data were recategorized into a 3-level variable BCS group (BCSG), …
Are Unfamiliar Neighbours Considered To Be Dear-Enemies?, 2010 University of Paris-Sud
Are Unfamiliar Neighbours Considered To Be Dear-Enemies?, Elodie Briefer, Fanny Rybak, Thierry Aubin
Sentience Collection
Background: Discriminating threatening individuals from non-threatening ones allow territory owners to modulate their territorial responses according to the threat posed by each intruder. This ability reduces costs associated with territorial defence. Reduced aggression towards familiar adjacent neighbours, termed the dear-enemy effect, has been shown in numerous species. An important question that has never been investigated is whether territory owners perceive distant neighbours established in the same group as strangers because of their unfamiliarity, or as dear-enemies because of their group membership.
Methodology/Principal Findings: To investigate this question, we played back to male skylarks (Alauda arvensis) songs of adjacent neighbours, distant …
Cat-Eating Coyotes Are A Bird’S Best Friend, 2010 Animal Studies Repository
Cat-Eating Coyotes Are A Bird’S Best Friend, Harold Herzog
'Animals and Us' Blog Posts
Coyotes will catch and kill domestic cats. Therefore, where coyotes are found, there tend to be fewer cats. This is good news for small animals and birds that domestic cats catch and kill.
Cat-Eating Coyotes Are A Bird’S Best Friend, 2010 Animal Studies Repository
Cat-Eating Coyotes Are A Bird’S Best Friend, Harold Herzog
Harold Herzog, PhD
True Fact: Dog-Walking Helps Dogs But Harms Birds, 2010 Animal Studies Repository
True Fact: Dog-Walking Helps Dogs But Harms Birds, Harold Herzog
'Animals and Us' Blog Posts
The good news and bad news about dog-walking
True Fact: Dog-Walking Helps Dogs But Harms Birds, 2010 Animal Studies Repository
True Fact: Dog-Walking Helps Dogs But Harms Birds, Harold Herzog
Harold Herzog, PhD
Capuchins (Cebus Apella) Can Solve A Means-End Problem, 2010 The Ohio State University
Capuchins (Cebus Apella) Can Solve A Means-End Problem, Anna M. Yocom, Sarah T. Boysen
Sentience Collection
Three capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) were tested on a 2-choice discrimination task designed to examine their knowledge of support, modeled after Hauser, Kralik, and Botto-Mahan’s (1999) experiments with tamarins. This task involved a choice between 2 pieces of cloth, including 1 with a food reward placed on its surface, and a second cloth with the food reward next to its surface. After reliably solving the basic problem, the capuchins were tested with various alternations of the original food reward and cloth. The capuchins were able to solve the initial task quickly, and generalize their knowledge to additional functional and nonfunctional …
Road Kill And The New Science Of Human-Animal Relationships, 2010 Animal Studies Repository
Road Kill And The New Science Of Human-Animal Relationships, Harold Herzog
'Animals and Us' Blog Posts
Ignore, rescue, or obliterate that turtle in the road?
Human Induced Rotation And Reorganization Of The Brain Of Domestic Dogs, 2010 University of Sydney
Human Induced Rotation And Reorganization Of The Brain Of Domestic Dogs, Taryn Roberts, Paul Mcgreevy, Michael Valenzuela
Anatomy Collection
Domestic dogs exhibit an extraordinary degree of morphological diversity. Such breed-to-breed variability applies equally to the canine skull, however little is known about whether this translates to systematic differences in cerebral organization. By looking at the paramedian sagittal magnetic resonance image slice of canine brains across a range of animals with different skull shapes (N = 13), we found that the relative reduction in skull length compared to width (measured by Cephalic Index) was significantly correlated to a progressive ventral pitching of the primary longitudinal brain axis (r = 0.83), as well as with a ventral shift in the position …
Human Induced Rotation And Reorganization Of The Brain Of Domestic Dogs, 2010 University of Sydney
Human Induced Rotation And Reorganization Of The Brain Of Domestic Dogs, Taryn Roberts, Paul Mcgreevy, Michael Valenzuela
Morphology Collection
Domestic dogs exhibit an extraordinary degree of morphological diversity. Such breed-to-breed variability applies equally to the canine skull, however little is known about whether this translates to systematic differences in cerebral organization. By looking at the paramedian sagittal magnetic resonance image slice of canine brains across a range of animals with different skull shapes (N = 13), we found that the relative reduction in skull length compared to width (measured by Cephalic Index) was significantly correlated to a progressive ventral pitching of the primary longitudinal brain axis (r = 0.83), as well as with a ventral shift in the position …
What Do Irish Setters And Girls Named "Jennifer" Tell Us About The Causes Of Social Change?, 2010 Animal Studies Repository
What Do Irish Setters And Girls Named "Jennifer" Tell Us About The Causes Of Social Change?, Harold Herzog
'Animals and Us' Blog Posts
What causes dog breed fads?