AWI Quarterly Term Archive
Feature Article
Non-Invasive Genetic Sampling: A Kinder Approach to Population Estimation
Terrestrial WildlifeAlmost every wildlife biologist has experienced the sinking feeling of finding an injured or dead animal in a live-trap. Live-traps are used to capture animals, so we can monitor the...
Red Knots in a Bind
Terrestrial WildlifeAs horseshoe crab populations dwindle, species up the food chain are feeling the pinch. You may have never thought twice about a horseshoe crab—or even once for that matter—but lately,...
Trapped in Debate
Terrestrial WildlifeGreenwash: The dissemination of misleading information by an organization to conceal its abuse of the environment in order to present a positive public image.1 Replace “The environment” with “wildlife” in...
Silencing Maryland’s Mute Swans
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced in June its intent to eradicate the state’s mute swan population by “reducing it to as low a level as can be...
Taken for a Ride
Equines, Terrestrial WildlifeA snowstorm was in full force one wintry day last December when filmmaker Donny Moss decided to film the carriage horse drivers picking up tourists outside Manhattan’s world-famous Plaza Hotel...
Elephant Cruelty Under the Big Top: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Finally Exposed in Federal Court Trial
Terrestrial WildlifeAfter nearly nine years of intense legal wrangling, the Animal Welfare Institute’s (AWI) landmark case against Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus’ parent company, Feld Entertainment, Inc., for elephant...
Tickled Pink
Animals in LaboratoriesSylvie Cloutier, PhD, and Ruth C. Newberry, PhD, present playful handling as social enrichment for laboratory rats When animals are used in research,there is seldom, if ever, a focus on...
More on Merciless MRSA Strain
Farmed AnimalsWar and Stench: The pandemic that was and yet may be War and pestilence ride together and there is no better place than an army camp full of recruits, stressed...
Invigorate, not Capitulate: The Prescription for Whaling Commission Success
Marine WildlifeThe Member-Nations of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) were poised to make a critical decision at the 2009 Intersessional Meeting held in Rome in March. They were faced with whether...
The Nose Knows: A New Method of Tracking Individual Otters
Marine WildlifeRecognition of individual animals enables detailed studies of movement patterns, foraging, life histories and survival. It is also important for understanding the ecology and behavior of species. Artificial marks, such...