Animals articles from September 2001

Animals archives from September 2001

Let the Punishment Fit the Crime.(animal welfare legislation)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... Readers may not know the name Andrew Burnett, but most will remember what he did: after a fender bender near the San Jose, California, airport last year, he reached into the car of Sara McBurnett and threw her bichon frise, Leo, into oncoming...

House Votes for Arctic Drilling; Senate Panel Leans toward Bush.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Environmentalists are looking to the U.S. Senate to stave off the momentum of this summer's sobering defeat on energy issues in the U.S. House of Representatives, particularly on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The...

Habitat Loss Puts Asian Birds at Risk.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Habitat loss has pushed more than 300 Asian bird species to the brink of extinction, up from 51 two decades ago, according to the recently published Threatened Birds of Asia: The BirdLife International Red Data Book. One in four Asian...

In a pioneering effort to restore coral reefs, marine biologists are releasing the first laboratory-cultured Diadema sea urchins in the Florida Keys.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... In a pioneering effort to restore coral reefs, marine biologists are releasing the first laboratory-cultured Diadema sea urchins in the Florida Keys. When the urchin was nearly wiped out by disease in 1983, algae were able to proliferate to the...

U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton has been told to take a second look at her refusal to list the flat-tailed horned lizard as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton has been told to take a second look at her refusal to list the flat-tailed horned lizard as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the agency's analysis...

Captive Chimpanzee Care.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Twenty-one chimpanzees associated with the U.S. space program have been welcomed into the Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care's sanctuary in Saint Lucie County, Florida. The chimps, descendants of animals used in the Mercury space missions, had...

Yellowstone National Park.(snowmobile ban)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The Bush administration may overturn an upcoming ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park. Snow, noise, pollution, and the harassment of wildlife are among the reasons environmentalists support the ban. Eleven senators and four...

California sea otter.(population decline)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The California sea otter population, which has held steady in recent years, has begun to show troubling signs of decline. Biologists counted 2,161 of the threatened marine mammals along the California coast this year, down from 2,317 last year....

Sparing the Rainforest.(changing everyday consumer practices)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Predictions that the Amazon rainforest may be lost within four decades may seem hard to believe. But consider this: Michigan State University's Rainforest Report Card Web site (www.bsrsi.msu.edu/rfrc/home.html) reports that by 1988 about 90,000...

LETTERS.
September 22, 2001... Say No to Pet Cloning The idea of cloning one's pet seems so counterproductive and ridiculous to me ("Do Over Rover?" Summer 2001). With the thousands of homeless pets in this country, how can we add to this problem? Now that spay/neuter...

WILDFIRE!(Yellowstone National Park fires show natural cycle at work)
September 22, 2001... With flames roaring in Yellowstone National Park and elsewhere in the West, a look at how nature copes with forest fires may be surprisingly reassuring. "YELLOWSTONE DESTROYED," headlines and certain western politicians screamed during the...

Correcting the Feline Trespasser.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Our cat Twinkle is really driving us crazy. She constantly jumps up on the fireplace mantel and knocks everything off. We come home from work to find our knickknacks all over the floor. She even does this when we are sitting right in the room....

THE MAKING OF A DANGEROUS DOG.(responsibilities of owners and breeders)
September 22, 2001... Early this year, 33-year-old Diane Whipple was returning to her apartment in San Francisco after grocery shopping. In her sixth-floor hallway, she had the misfortune to encounter Marjorie Knoller, who was trying to shepherd two 120-pound presa...

Songs of INSECTS.
September 22, 2001... In his poem "Conversational Insects," H. I. Phillips has a confession to make: I long to interview the little Insects, and get the drift of what they re driving at: To chat with Wasps and Crickets In bushes, trees and...

AMAZON VISIONS.(threats to rain forest ecology)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Look well at these images of the Amazon, for scientists warn that this unique ecosystem and its incredible diversity of life may reach the point of no return within our lifetimes. The Amazon is a place of mystery, where the questions are as...

Lady of the Leatherbacks.(Suzan Lakhan)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... Ten years ago, when Raphael Lakhan first started patrolling his village beach for turtle poachers, he was chasing a few of the more unsavory perps on his rickety old bike when they clotheslined him. Lakhan went down on the pockmarked dirt road....

HEALTH WATCH.(veterinarian answers to health questions)
September 22, 2001... I have a one-year-old cat whose paw was accidentally stepped on, resulting in paralysis of his left paw from the wrist down. Our veterinarian placed him on a steroid and an antibiotic for 10 days. He said the radial nerve is damaged. After...

The Buffalo War.(Review)
September 22, 2001... The Buffalo War. Produced and directed by Matthew Testa. 60 minutes. Independent Television Service. Airs on PBS November 1, 10 P.M. (check local listings). Once bison grazed across the plains of the United States more than 50 million...

Parts Unknown: A Naturalist's Journey in Search of Birds and WildPlaces.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Parts Unknown: A Naturalist's Journey in Search of Birds and Wild Places. By Tim Gallagher. 224 pages. Lyons Press. $24.95 hardcover. Take a passion for birds, a love of the wild, and an incurable dash of wanderlust, and you've got the...