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Partnership program trains volunteers to become pet detectives | Seattle News, Weather,... - 0 views

  • "This is a service that will find animals that might be scared and hiding, and a microchip isn't going to find them," she said.
  • Millions of dogs and cats go missing every year, and the common techniques people use aren't effective,
  • We use scent tracking dogs, cat detection dogs, high-tech equipment, wildlife cameras that snap pictures,' Albrecht said. "We've used a lot of surveillance equipment.
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    artículos ilegales, total o parcialmente: ARTICULO 166:  Todo animal doméstico que se encuentre en la vía pública sin control humano o carente del necesario sistema de sujeción, aunque presente algún tipo de identificación será considerado vago para los efectos legales y, para evitar las consecuencias nocivas que pueda provocar esta situación, podrá ser retirado y/o eliminado por la autoridad competente, quién dispondrá las medidas necesarias para ello. ARTICULO 173: Cuando la autoridad sanitaria detecte un caso de rabia, o las condiciones epidemiológicas para que se produzca un brote de la enfermedad, podrá retirar o eliminar los perros vagos que se encuentren en la vía pública y lugares de uso común .En caso de ser necesario, para cumplir con este objetivo, se solicitará el auxilio de la fuerza pública. ARTICULO 176:   Los propietarios a cualquier título de animales enfermos o lesionados deben proveer asistencia veterinaria, siempre que sea necesaria y en el caso de no poder resolver el problema por medios terapéuticos, la eutanasia será un medio valido a realizarse para evitar el sufrimiento del animal, debiendo ser efectuada sólo por un Medico Veterinario ya sea privado, o por los médicos Veterinario Municipales. ARTICULO 177:   Queda estrictamente prohibido dejar abandonados animales en los espacios de uso público o privados, así como alimentar animales en la vía pública.
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Livestock industry wins Supreme Court appeal - CNN.com - 0 views

  • The Obama administration sided with pork producers, a move criticized by a number of animal rights groups.
  • Pork producers in their legal brief estimated that about 3% of swine are non-ambulatory when they arrive at the slaughterhouse.
  • The meat industry argued being forced to immediately euthanize all downed animals would hurt its ability to detect and fight one particularly virulent disease: foot-and-mouth, which is highly contagious.
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Animals In Our Brain: Mickey Mouse, Teddy Bears, and "Cuteness" | Psychology Today - 0 views

  • "a specific part of your brain that is hardwired to rapidly detect creatures of the nonhuman kind ..
  • (1) the response of cells in the amygdala are independent of the emotional content of the pictures - cute, ugly, and dangerous animals were processed similarly
  • (2) only cells in the right amygdala were responsive to seeing animals.
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  • early on in vertebrate evolution, the right hemisphere became specialized in dealing with unexpected and biologically relevant stimuli, or with changes in the environment.
  • Lorenz called the attractive "cuteness" qualities the baby schema (‘‘Kindchenschema'') that included "a set of infantile physical features, such as round face and big eyes, that is perceived as cute and motivates caretaking behavior in the human
  • perhaps down the road we'll discover differences in how brains process animals when comparing humans who are more or less concerned with the well-being of nonhuman beings.
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How Using Antibiotics In Animal Feed Creates Superbugs : The Salt : NPR - 0 views

  • antibiotics in livestock feed give rise to antibiotic-resistant germs that can threaten humans.
  • an antibiotic-susceptible staph germ passed from humans into pigs
  • it became resistant to the antibiotics tetracycline and methicillin
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  • And then the antibiotic-resistant staph learned to jump back into humans.
  • "It's like watching the birth of a superbu
  • whole-genome analysis on a staph strain called CC398 and 88 closely related variations.
  • emerged within the past decade in pigs and has since spread widely in cattle and poultry as well as pigs.
  • the animal bacterium jumped back into humans with close exposure to livestock.
  • This "pig MRSA" has been detected in nearly half of all meat sampled in U.S. commerce
  • we think it may be changing gears, so to speak, and gaining the capacity to be passed from person to person.
  • Price says the new data provide an early warning of what might become a major public health problem.
  • in some areas of the Netherlands, it's causing as many as 1 in 4 human MRSA cases
  • "our inappropriate use of antibiotics ... is now coming back to haunt us."
  • the solution is clear — banning antibiotics in livestock feed, as the European Union has done.
  • Most antibiotics sold in the U.S. go to animals, mostly in their feed, where they act as a growth promoter and damp down infection outbreaks in large feedlots.
  • It said it would focus instead on "voluntary reform" by the meat industry to limit use.
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The smell of danger: Rats instinctively avoid compound in carnivore urine - 0 views

  • Ferrero discovered that one of the 14 TAARs, TAAR4, detected the odor of several carnivores.
  • a kairomone, a chemical that works like a pheromone, except that it communicates between members of different species instead of members of the same species.
  • "One of the things that's really new here is that this is a generalized predator kairomone that's volatile," s
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  • It's been known so long that predator odors are great rodent deterrents, but we've discovered one molecule that's a key part of this ecological relationship,
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