Recently added articles from Animals:
Embracing the challenge. (ViewPoint).(Larry Hawk new president of Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
Jan 01, 2003; Cummings, Robert S. ... "Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things ...
Snowmobiling. (Updates ...).(snowmobiles allowed in national parks)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Snowmobiling received an official nod from the Bush administration, which reversed a ban on the activity in Yellowstone National Park. New rules that go into effect December 2003 allow up to 1,100 vehicles a day in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and the ...
Endangered salmon. (Updates ...).(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Something's fishy in Klamath, and it doesn't bode well for the area's endangered salmon. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Bush administration has suppressed a study asserting that returning water to Oregon's Klamath River would be economically more beneficial to the region than ...
Dogs. (Updates ...).(influence of music on dogs)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Music to your canine's ears? Studies at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and the Rehoming Centre of the National Canine Defence League in Evesham, England, found classical music to be soothing to dogs. Heavy metal, on ...
The winds of war. (Animals Talk).(effect of war on wildlife)
Jan 01, 2003; Abend, Paula ... War, as the saying goes, is not good for children and other living things. When it comes to wildlife, Wendy Williams's "Out on Maneuvers" (page 16) demonstrates that without special care, even training for war has serious negative impacts. With tensions building, the United States may well ...
Improvement in Thailand. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2003; Goldin, Sally ... Having lived for two years in Thailand and having returned to visit many times, I found "The Dogs of Banglamung" (Fall 2002), the excerpt from Sy Montgomery's book, both fascinating and true to my experience. I want to add a few pieces of information. First, despite the relative ...
Correction.(Correction Notice)
Jan 01, 2003 ... "Echoes of Loon Song" in our Fall 2002 issue named the Massachusetts Loon Preservation and Habitat Conservation Society as an organization whose ...
As the crow flies: changing land use patterns are fueling the flight to inner-city roosts.
Jan 01, 2003; Williams, David B. ... You have to get up pretty early in the morning to fool a crow. John Withey, a Ph.D. candidate monitoring a roost in Seattle, gets up before dawn. As part of a larger study of the increase in the city's crow population, he sets his traps in the dark and places camouflaging around the wire ...
Fighting for greyhounds: a case study: attempts to ban dog racing in Massachusetts hit a wall of industry opposition. But some reforms crossed the finish line nevertheless. (Special Report).(Cover Story)
Jan 01, 2003; Sacks, Pamela H. ... All through this past summer, Robin Norton was eagerly awaiting word on whether she had been awarded a grant from the newly formed Retired Greyhound Care and Adoption Council. Norton was excited about the possibilities brought to life by the council, which had been created as the result of ...
Out on maneuvers: must military training sacrifice endangered-species protection?
Jan 01, 2003; Williams, Wendy ... North Carolina's Camp Lejeune--a 246-square-mile sprawl of sandy pine forest the Atlantic coast--has a reputation for being brutal on recruits. Mosquito-filled, wet and rugged, these lands have seemed hellish to decades of marines in training, who mostly just want to survive their grueling ...
When cat meets dog. (Case Notes).
Jan 01, 2003; Bollen, Kelley ... We are thinking of adding a dog to our family but have a six-year-old cat who has never lived with dogs. In fact, she has never even seen a dog up close. How do we pick the right dog, and what steps should we take to help our kitty adjust to her new canine brother or sister? ...
The fortunes of fishers: on the wane in the West, the weasel's numbers are waxing in the East.
Jan 01, 2003; Knight, Deborah ... The first two fishers Sally Beckwith raised for release to the wild were orphaned adolescents, and they took her to fisher school. They leapt horizontally between trees and stuck like Velcro balls. They chased each other headfirst down trees as if nothing were holding them, accelerating as ...
Health Watch.
Jan 01, 2003; Theran, Peter ... A couple years ago I adopted a Labrador retriever her previous owners had given up because of a bony growth on her head. Lately this bone mass seems to be growing, and I'm afraid that if it continues, it might compromise her eye socket and eye. My niece mentioned that a laser shaving ...
Be your dog's best friend.(The Angell Memorial Animal Hospital Book of Wellness and Preventive Care for Dogs)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Put the expertise of the MSPCA's world-renowned veterinarians at your fingertips with The Angell Memorial Animal Hospital Book of Wellness and Preventive Care for Dogs. At stores now, this jargon-free and easy-to-use book by award-winning journalist ...
Pictures worth more than words.(Wildlife: The World's Top Photographers and the Stories behind Their Greatest Images)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; Abend, Paula ... Wildlife: The World's Top Photographers and the Stories behind Their Greatest Images. By Terry Hope. 176 pages. RotoVision. $39 hardcover. One of the best things about working on a magazine such as Animals is choosing the pictures. There's a lot to consider besides the quality ...
