While some places in the United States allow exotic pets, there is no known legal way of purchasing these animals from India. Also, the Wildlife Protection Act prohibits people from keeping them and other wild animals as “pets” in India. Is the Indian giant squirrel endangered? No, Indian...
The protection of experimental animals in India was established in law in 1960 when the Indian Parliament passed the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960. Under this Act, the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals was created to ensure the care and ...
Most countries have an animal they use as a symbol for the nation as a whole. The United States have their bald eagle, of course, while Russia has, the United Kingdom the scrappy but lovable bulldog (officially it's actually the Lion but the bulldog characterisation stuck), India has th...
PETA India operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on or use for entertainment.
Tucked into the very back of the Animal Welfare Act 1999 is s 175, a clause that effectively exempts wildlife from the scope of New Zealand animal protection law. Ostensibly enacted to permit legitimate forms of hunting, fishing and pest control to remain immune from scrutiny, the clause has ...
The sexual act lasts for about two minutes after which, the male Indian elephant stays near the female Indian elephant to ward off other males from around her. Males that fall in the age bracket of 40 to 50 years are most likely to mate with females for babies. however, the courtship ...
In 1993, the NIH Revitalization Act required the inclusion of women in NIH-funded clinical research. Today, just over half of NIH-funded clinical-research participants are women. We know much more about the role of sex and gender in medicine, such as that low-dose aspirin has different ...
The role of the one-carbon cycle in the developmental origins of Type 2 diabetes and obesity Vitamin B12 deficiency is common in certain populations, such as in India, where there is also a rising prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, obesity and their co... S, Finer,P, Saravanan,G, Hitman,....
Pathogenic microorganisms including Enterobacteriaceae, Bacilli, Streptococci, Staphylococci, and Clostridia are associated in human tissues, and can act as potential contaminants if released through corpse decay [57, 58]. However, during a pandemic event, potential high risk for spreading virulent ...
act as an important tool for investigating the interaction between drugs and other non-targeted microorganisms present as commensals in the model for a particular pathogen. This chapter also looks into the ethical considerations and welfare issues in laboratory animals that specifically pertain to ...