Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Anis are the three species of near-passerine birds in the genus Crotophaga of the cuckoo family. They are essentially tropical New world birds, although the range of two species just reaches the U.S.. Recent DNA evidence places them in a new family, Crotophagidae.Unlike some cuckoos, the anis are not brood parasites, but nest communally, the cup nest being built by several pairs between 2–6 m high in a tree. A number of females lay their eggs in the nest and then share incubation...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mobbing behavior in animals is an antipredator behavior which occurs when individuals of a certain species mob a predator by cooperatively attacking or harassing it, usually in order to protect their offspring. A simple definition of mobbing is an assemblage of individuals around a potentially dangerous predator. This is most frequently seen in avian species, though it is also known to occur in many other animals such as the Meerkat. While mobbing has evolved independently in many species, it only tends to be present in those whose young are frequently preyed on. This behavior may complement cryptic adaptations in the offspring themselves, such as camouflage and hiding. Mobbing calls may be...

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Animal hoarding involves keeping higher than usual numbers of animals as pets without having the ability to properly house or care for them, while at the same time denying this inability. Compulsive hoarding can be characterized as a symptom of mental disorder rather than deliberate cruelty towards animals. Hoarders are deeply attached to their pets and find it extremely difficult to let the pets go. They typically cannot comprehend that they are harming their pets by failing to provide them with proper care. Hoarders tend to believe that they provide the right amount of care for their pets.The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals provides a "Hoarding Prevention Team", which works with hoarders to help them attain a...

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Animal language is the modeling of human language in non human animal systems. While the term is widely used, researchers agree that animal languages are not as complex or expressive as human language. Some researchers including the linguist Charles Hockett, who proposed a list of design features of Human Language, argue that there are significant differences separating human language from animal communication even at its most complex, and that the underlying principles are not related. Others argue that an evolutionary continuum exists between the communication methods these animals use and human language. Examining this continuum could help explain how humanity evolved its incredibly sophisticated proficiency for language. The...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Animal fibers are natural fibers that consist largely of particular proteins. Instances are silk, hair/fur (including wool) and feathers. The animal fibers used most commonly both in the manufacturing world as well as by the hand spinners are wool from domestic sheep and silk. Also very popular are alpaca fiber and mohair from Angora goats. Unusual fibers such as Angora wool from rabbits and Chiengora from dogs also exist, but are rarely used for mass production.Not all animal fibers have the same properties, and even within a species the fiber is not consistent. Merino is a very soft, fine wool, while Cotswold is coarser, and yet both merino and...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! There was widespread support for animal welfare in Nazi Germany and the Nazis took several measures to ensure protection of animals. Many Nazi leaders, including Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goring, were supporters of animal protection. Several Nazis were environmentalists, and species protection and animal welfare were significant issues in the Nazi regime. Heinrich Himmler made efforts to ban the hunting of animals.Goring was an animal lover and conservationist. The current animal welfare laws in Germany are modified versions of the laws introduced by the Nazis. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The treatment of animals in rodeo has been a source of concern for the industry, the public, and the law for decades. Protests were first raised in the 1870s, and, in the middle twentieth century, laws were enacted to curb events using animals. The American Humane Association (AHA) has worked with the rodeo industry (specifically, the PRCA) to establish rules improving animal treatment in rodeo and the treatment of rodeo animals. Today, animal cruelty complaints in rodeo are still very much alive, and continue to be a source of aggravation to the rodeo industry. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Animal psychopathology is the study of mental or behavioral disorders in non-human animals. Historically, there has been an anthropocentric tendency to emphasize the study of animal psychopathologies as models for human mental illnesses. But animal psychopathologies can, from an evolutionary point of view, be more properly regarded as non-adaptive behaviors due to some sort of a cognitive disability or emotional impairment or distress. This article provides a non-exhaustive list of animal psychopathologies. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An animal shelter is a facility that houses homeless, lost, or abandoned animals; primarily a large variety of dogs and cats.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! With offices in London and Los Angeles, Animal Defenders International (ADI) is a major international campaigning group, lobbying to protect animals on issues such as animals in entertainment and their use in experiments; worldwide traffic in endangered species; factory farming; pollution and conservation. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Frogs have been used in animal tests throughout the history of biomedical science. Eighteenth-century biologist Luigi Galvani discovered the link between electricity and the nervous system through studying frogs. The African clawed frog or platanna, Xenopus laevis, was first widely used in laboratories in pregnancy assays in the first half of the 20th century. When human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone found in substantial quantities in the urine of pregnant women, is injected into a female X. laevis, it induces them to lay eggs. In 1952 Robert Briggs and Thomas Joseph King cloned a frog by somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same technique that was...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rabbits are commonly used animals for animal experiments. Other common animals used are mice, rats and invertebrates. In 1972, around 450 000 rabbits were used for experiments in the United States, decreasing to around 240 000 in 2006. This followed the general trend of fewer animals being used for experiments - especially during the last ten years.Rabbits are currently used mainly for the development of polyclonal antibodies and for the controversial Draize test , which is used for, amongst other things, testing cosmetics on animals. Rabbits have been used in the past for many ground-breaking experiments, including the development of the first oral contraceptive in the 1950s by Pincus, Rock...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Un animal de compagnie est un animal recevant la protection de l'homme en echange de sa presence, sa beaute, sa jovialite, ou pour ses talents (oiseaux chanteurs, pigeons voyageurs...), par opposition aux animaux de production tels les vaches (lait) ou les poules (oeufs). En raison de leur tres longue presence au cote de l'Homme, ils ont fait l'objet d'une domestication. Dans les pays occidentaux, les principaux animaux de compagnie sont le chat et le chien. On designe depuis quelques annees sous le terme « nouveaux animaux de compagnie » (NAC), des especes qui sont entrees apres les annees 1970 dans le cercle des animaux de compagnie. Certains de ces animaux, comme le furet ou le lapin,...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ! An animal shelter is a facility that houses homeless, lost or abandoned animals; primarily a large variety of dogs and cats. The goal of today's animal shelter is to provide a safe and caring environment until the animal is either reclaimed by its owner, placed in a new home, or placed with another organization. Many progressive shelters temperament-test animals before they are put up for adoption (PUFA) to determine the appropriate home environment. In the past, a shelter was more commonly referred to as a "dog pound", a term which had its origins in the impoundments of agricultural communities, where stray cattle would be penned up or impounded until claimed by their owners. Данное...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Animal mummies were started by Egyptians. They mummified various animals. An enormous part of Egyptian culture, not only in their role as food and pets, but also for religious reasons. They were typically mummified for four main purposes — to allow beloved pets to go on to the afterlife, to provide food in the afterlife, to act as offerings to a particular god, and because some were seen as physical manifestations of specific gods that the Egyptians worshipped. In 1888, an Egyptian farmer digging in the sand near Istabl Antar discovered a mass grave of felines, ancient dogs that were mummified and buried in pits at great numbers.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rodents are commonly used in animal testing, particularly guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, rats, and mice. In the UK in 2004, 1,910,110 mice, 464,727 rats and 37,475 other rodents were used (84.5% of the total animals used that year). In 2005, the total number of rodents used was similar to the previous year: 1,955,035 mice, 414,335 rats and 40,856 other rodents. In the U.S., the numbers of rats and mice used are not reported, but have been estimated at 15-20 million. In 2000, the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, published the results of an analysis of its Rats/Mice/and Birds Database: Researchers, Breeders, Transporters, and Exhibitors....

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Animal Precinct is an American documentary reality television series that originally aired from June 26, 2001 to February 4, 2008 on Animal Planet. Set in New York City, the series follows the animal cruelty agents of the ASPCA's Humane Law Enforcement Division as they work as advocates for the five million pets and other animals in New York City, sometimes removing them from dangerous situations and pursuing arrests of those who have been accused of being cruel to animals. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Animal Welfare Act (Laboratory Animal Welfare Act of 1966, P.L. 89-544) was signed into law in 1966. It is the only Federal law in the United States that regulates the treatment of animals in research, exhibition, transport, and by dealers. Other laws, policies, and guidelines may include additional species coverage or specifications for animal care and use, but all refer to the Animal Welfare Act as the minimum acceptable standard. The Act was amended six times (1970, 1976, 1985, 1990, 2002, 2007) and is enforced by the USDA, APHIS, and Animal Care agency. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Animals are a major group of mostly multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and independently. All animals are also heterotrophs, meaning they must ingest other organisms for sustenance. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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Animal fancy is a hobby involving the appreciation, promotion, and/or breeding of pet or domestic animals. Fancy may include ownership, showing, trialling and other competitions, breeding and judging. Hobbyists may simply collect specimens of the animal in appropriate enclosures, such as aquaria and aviaries. Fanciers with means may keep hobby farms or private zoos. There are many animal fancy clubs and associations in the world catering for everything from pigeons to Irish Wolfhounds; members may own many animals or none at all. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (A(SP)A 86) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (1986 c. 14) passed in 1986, which regulates the use of laboratory animals in the UK. The Act permits experiments to be carried out on animals, including procedures involving vivisection, if certain criteria are met. The 1986 Act is the UK implementation of the European Directive EC 86/609, which is in the process of being revised. The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection argues that the Act is designed to protect researchers from prosecution for cruelty, rather than to protect the animals themselves. However, a select committee inquiry...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Un animal (du latin animus, esprit, ou principe vital) est, selon la classification classique, un etre vivant heterotrophe, c’est-a-dire qu’il se nourrit de substances organiques. On reserve aujourd'hui le terme animal a des etres complexes et pluricellulaires, bien qu’on ait longtemps considere les protozoaires comme des animaux unicellulaires. Comme tous les etres vivants, les animaux ont des semblables avec qui ils forment un groupe homogene, appele espece. Dans la classification phylogenetique actuellement en vigueur, le taxon des animaux a ete remplace par celui des metazoaires qui sont definis comme des organismes eucaryotes pluricellulaires mobiles heterotrophes. Dans le langage...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An animal song is a repetitive vocal utterance of animals such as birds and whales. The term is not clearly defined in the scientific literature, though most investigators agree that an animal song must have syllabic diversity and temporal regularity akin to the repetitive and transformative patterns which define human music. Motifs and different categories of sound syllables set animal song apart from repetitive animal vocalizations. In some cases such as birds and cetaceans, the songs are learned from adults. Other mammals besides whales, such as canines and rodents are being studied for evidence of learned animal song. Данное издание...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Animal sexual behavior takes many different forms, even within the same species. Researchers have observed monogamy, promiscuity, sex between species, sexual arousal from objects or places, sex apparently via duress or coercion, copulation with dead animals, homosexual, heterosexual and bisexual sexual behaviour, and situational sexual behaviour and a range of other practices among animals other than humans. Related studies have noted diversity in sexed bodies and gendered behaviour, such as intersex and transgender animals. The study of animal sexuality (and primate sexuality especially) is a rapidly developing...

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