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Wcro Spring 1989

West Coast Regional Office

• Treatment of elephants demands attention
• Pet Centers sued
• Hight Court affirms law prohibiting spectators at cockfights
• Progress for animals in the Northwest
• Director's Comment (Char Drennon)
• Making a difference for animals
• Around the Region
• Legislative Highlights
• Steel-jaw traps: on the way out?

Specificity Of The Cardiac Response To Conspecific Vocalizations In Chimpanzees, Gary G. Berntson, Sarah T. Boysen

Sentience Collection

Heart rate measures were used to examine the functional response of young chimpanzees and orangutans to acoustic stimuli, including white noise and chimpanzee vocalizations (threat, stress, and alarm). The initial response of the animals to all stimuli was characterized by a prominent cardiac deceleration and an increase in heart period variability. The deceleratory responses persisted with repeated presentations of the noise, stress, and alarm stimuli. In contrast, the response of chimpanzees to the conspecific threat stimulus reverted over trials to a notable cardiac acceleration. This acceleratory response was not attributable to potential patterns of evoked somatic responses. The features of …

A Well-Deserved Victory, John A. Hoyt

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Principle of free debate upheld by court

Tracks

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No New Handicrafts; Foundation Grants; Sweden Protects Farm Animals

Division Reports

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A Thousand Adoptions (NAHEE)

The "Values" Of Sentient Beings, Michael W. Fox

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When we begin to perceive other existences ... the notion of human "superiority" is shattered.

The Problem Of Pet Theft, Barbara A. Cassidy

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Stolen pets may find themselves at an auction yard. Laboratories seek healthy, obedient dogs, so pets are much in demand by thieves.

Up Front

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"Be a P.A.L." Winners Named; Opening Eyes to Alternatives; Improving Kosher Slaughter; End of the Animals Farm Home

Regions Review

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No abstract provided.

Federal Report

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Expert assistance; Emergency action needed; Moratorium needs support; Legislative Roundup; MMPA Update; Tax reform looms

Law Notes

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Harassment law voided; HSUS acts in drug cases; Spectators, beware

Understanding The Animal Welfare Act Part Ii, Ann Smalley

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Problems of Enforcement

Florida's Felony Greyhound Raid

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A dozen arrested for use of live lures

Hsus News Volume 34, Number 02

HSUS News 1989-92

No abstract provided.

Numerical Competence In A Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes), Sarah T. Boysen, Gary G. Berntson

Sentience Collection

A chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), trained to count foods and objects by using Arabic numbers, demonstrated the ability to sum arrays of 0-4 food items placed in 2 of 3 possible sites. To address representational use of numbers, we next baited sites with Arabic numbers as stimuli. In both cases performance was significantly above chance from the first sessions, which suggests that without explicit training in combining arrays, the animal was able to select the correct arithmetic sum for arrays of foods or Arabic numbers under novel test conditions. These findings demonstrate that counting strategies and the representational use of numbers …

Non-Breeder Asymmetry In Florida Scrub Jays, Jonathan P. Balcombe

Ethology Collection

The data of Woolfenden and Fitzpatrick (1984) show a statistically significant asymmetry in the sex ratio of non-breeders when one of the breeders is not the non-breeder's parent. 1 propose that the asymmetry is attributable to a combination of two factors acting on non-breeders: the value of inheriting a territory, and incest avoidance. Although natal territories are only occasionally inherited by non-breeders, and then apparently only by males, the rate of inheritance is significantly higher for parent/step-parent breeders (n = 6) than when both breeders are the non-breeder's parents (n = 1). An alternative hypothesis, that step-parents determine the non-breeder …

Investigators In Action

Close Up Reports

No abstract provided.

Acceptance Of Simulated Oral Rabies Vaccine Baits By Urban Raccoons, John Hadidian, Suzanne R. Jenkins, David H. Johnston, Peter J. Savarie, Victor F. Nettles, David M. Manski, George M. Baer

Veterinary Science and Medicine Collection

In summer 1986, a study was conducted to evaluate raccoon (Procyon lotor) acceptance of oral baits that could be used for rabies vaccination, One thousand wax-coated sponge bait cubes were filled with 5 mg of a seromarker (iophenoxic acid), placed in polyethylene bags, and hand-distributed in an 80 ha area within an urban National Park in Washington, D.C. (USA), After 3 wk, target and nontarget animals were trapped and blood samples collected to evaluate bait uptake. Thirty-three of 52 (63%) raccoons had elevated blood iodine levels indicating they had eaten at least one bait, 13 (25%) were negative, and six …

Conversations With Veterinary Students: Attitudes, Ethics, And Animals, Harold A. Herzog, Tamara L. Vore, John C. New Jr.

Attitudes Towards Animals Collection

Interviews were conducted with 24 graduating veterinary students to examine (a) changes in their attitudes toward animals; (b) the types of experiences and procedures that they found personally distressing; (c) their perceptions of the most important ethical issues that they will face in private practice; and (d) their responses to euthanizing animals. Students’ responses differed considerably. For example, about half of the students claimed that they were not affected by euthanasia, but another 25% still were struggling with this aspect of their professional role. Rationalization was a common mechanism by which the students attempted to deal with stressful experiences. It …

Conspecific Recognition In The Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes): Cardiac Responses To Significant Others, Sarah T. Boysen, Gary G. Berntson

Sentience Collection

The ability of a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) to recognize photographs of conspecifics was evaluated with heart-rate measures. Heart rate was recorded before, during, and after viewing photographs of an aggressive chimpanzee, a friendly companion animal, and an unfamiliar chimpanzee. The subject displayed a differential pattern of heart-rate response to the stimulus animals, without prior experience with the photographs. Responses to the aggressive animal were acceleratory, which suggests a defensive response. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia suggested that this response was associated with sympathetic activation. In contrast, responses to the familiar animal were minimal, whereas cardiac deceleration was observed in response to the …

Singer Speaks With Spira, Peter Singer

Interviews

While in Melbourne, Henry Spira attended a workshop arranged by ANZFAS for animal rights/welfare workers to discuss the strategies adopted by the Coalitions. He advised on how Australian animal welfare groups could use US experiences to devise new approaches for local action.

For Animal Liberation Magazine he talked with fellow activist, PROFESSOR PETER SINGER, author of Animal Liberation, about animal rights issues and his involvement in the movement.

How Are We Doing?, Henry Spira

Farm Animal Campaign

No abstract provided.

Animal Rights Coalitions Coordinator's Report '88, Animal Rights Coalitions

Animal Rights Coalitions

• Animal rights in the mainstream
• New action centers
• The Three R's and factory farming
• You as the energy center
• "Lessons we can learn from vegetarians"

The Hidden Costs Of Beef, Michael W. Fox, Nancy E. Wiswall

eBooks

No abstract provided.

Dissection In The Classroom, John A. Hoyt

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What the Jenifer Graham case means

Animal Justice ... Political Reality: The 1988 Hsus Annual Conference

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No abstract provided.

Up Front

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Mel L. Morse: An Appreciation; Spreading the Good Word; Great Walls of Death; Cockfighting Crackdown Continues; The HSUS Fights Fur in Five Cities

Division Reports

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Heartfelt "Thanks!" (NAHEE)

Law Notes

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Dissection Suit May Be Resolved; At Stake: Free Debate

Federal Report

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1988 Legislative Year in Review