A multidisciplinary investigation of chronic animal abuse: Collaboration between veterinary forensics and forensic anthropology

An unknown juvenile female mixed breed dog was found non‐ambulatory on a dead‐end street in an urban setting adjacent to a public park. During initial veterinary examination, she was assessed to have untreatable injuries and was humanely euthanized. The forensic veterinarian requested consultation from a forensic anthropologist to assist with documenting antemortem skeletal trauma. Analyses of skeletal tissues indicated numerous injuries in various stages of healing diagnostic of non‐accidental injuries. Veterinary forensic cases may benefit from collaborative analysis of bony remains by forensic anthropologists.     

Animal ethics and the political

Some of the most important contributions to animal ethics over the past decade or so have come from political, as opposed to moral, philosophers. As such, some have argued that there been a ‘political turn’ in the field. If there has been such a turn, it needs to be shown that there is something which unites these contributions, and which sets them apart from previous work. We find that some of the features which have been claimed to be shared commitments of the turn are contested by key theorists working in the field. We also find that the originality of the turn can be exaggerated, with many of their ideas found in more traditional animal ethics. Nonetheless, we identify one unifying and distinctive feature of these contributions: the focus on justice; and specifically, the exploration of how political institutions, structures and processes might be transformed so as to secure justice for both human and nonhuman animals.     

生生不息的逻各斯:人与动物的根本区别——从《尼各马可伦理学》看亚里士多德道德哲学建构的基点

亚里士多德基于现实和理性的考虑,认为解决现实德性问题的依据来源于人和动物的根本区别:逻各斯。逻各斯解决了亚里士多德只有实在本身存在的理论,那么在属人的存在里,逻各斯是唯一一个不同特征。人生存在世界的意义就在于寻找真实的自己,因此逻各斯成为了亚里士多德道德哲学体系建构的核心。《尼各马可伦理学》实现了亚里士多德的追求。     

殷墟卜辞与古代神话中的“龙”

神话中的龙分生物性的龙与作为神祗的龙,而龙崇拜与饲龙之俗都为卜辞材料所证实.神话中的龙伯国或与卜辞中的龙方有关,视两龙交尾为不祥,神话与卜辞又相契合.因此可以说,神话并非人类头脑中的空想,神话的产生是有其历史渊源的,龙的起源也如此.     

口蹄疫病毒感染动物组织及其产品传播口蹄疫的风险和控制

对影响口蹄疫病毒存活的因素、传播途径和最小感染量,口蹄疫感染动物不同组织、体液中口蹄疫病毒的带毒量和病毒存活能力,口蹄疫病毒在各类畜产品中的存活能力等相关研究进展进行了综述;对各类畜产品传播口蹄疫的风险进行了分析评估,并提出了风险控制措施和建议.     

Can George dance? Biosemiotics and human exceptionalism with a lyrebird in the viewfinder

Are the movements of the Australian Albert’s lyrebird “George” best identified as dance, “dance,” proto-dance, or functional gestures? I draw on the tools of biosemiotics to shed light on human signifying practice vis-à-vis dance – specifically, how humans make sense of avian dance, how they compare and contrast it with human dance, and what a definition tells us about its makers. In both the natural sciences and humanities, competing discourses abound to the contention that animal movements could fruitfully be considered as dance. A trend emerges in some definitions of dance (which may also invoke human exceptionalism) of characterizations that ignore extant reports of animal abilities – of a classificatory rather than an evaluative posture. I argue that in overcoming the limitations of human exceptionalism in analytic frameworks by explicitly incorporating animal efforts into theory development, validation, and revision (theories often dominated by human and elite Western concerns), we will arrive at a less-distorted version of the multimodal behavior we call dancing.     

Editor’s note

ABSTRACT

Over the past decade, a small movement endorsing the use of animal abuse registries (AARs) has emerged in the United States. Today, one state, 16 counties, and the City of New York have adopted AAR legislation, and 28 other states have attempted to pass such legislation. Here, we discuss similarities between AARs and sexual offender registries in theoretical terms, discuss the nature of AAR legislation, and provide data on the use of AARs, and count the number of offenders listed in those registries at two points in time. We also provide a count of animal abuse, and potential ways that animal abuse might be counted that are not addressed in current AAR legislation. We discuss whether AARs are ‘a good idea,’ especially as a policy response that might be associated with green criminology.     

Wildlife management,the multilateral trade regime,morals and the welfare of animals 1

Abstract

Various states (and groups of states such as the European Community) have adopted legislation designed to raise standards of animal welfare in many areas including agriculture, companion animals, experimentation and testing, transport, and hunting and trapping methods. Much of this legislation has resulted from extensive lobbying and intense political wrangling. Where the legislation affects animals as products (or animal derivative products such as their pelts or their meat), legislators frequently resort to external facing trade measures to support the moral stance taken in the legislative instrument. At this point potential conflicts with the precepts of the multilateral trade regime operated by the World Trade Organisation arise. The extent to which the relevant provisions in the WTO portfolio of agreements (and the predecessor text of the GATT 1947) assist the cause of animal welfare is limited by both the texts themselves and the narrow interpretation of those texts by WTO/ GATT dispute panels. Non‐governmental organisations involved with animal welfare issues are concerned that the WTO regime will inhibit the development of animal welfare protection legislation and are also concerned that the net result may be a retardation of the development of animal welfare measures in the face of open market competition. This article explores the background to, and substance of, this contention particularly in the context of the European and International legislation designed to deal with the welfare of trapped wild animals and also with other animal welfare legislation having international trade implications. Moreover, the findings of such an examination have much broader implications in that they have relevance to any legislation based on public morality which seeks to enforce that morality through external facing trade measures.     

人体脂肪的高效液相色谱-蒸发光散射分析

目的 建立凶杀案件现场遗留的微量人体脂肪残渣种属的检验鉴定方法.方法 用丙酮溶解人体油脂、动物油脂,油脂溶液进行高效液相色谱-蒸发光散射分析.结果 人体脂肪的液相色谱数据特征性强,与常见动物油脂差异显著,可作为鉴定人体脂肪种属的依据.检材不受各种环境因素的干扰,对于腐败的人体脂肪仍可得出准确鉴定结论.结论 高效液相色谱-蒸发光散射方法是检验鉴定微量人体脂肪种属的一种有效手段.     

河北省家畜弓形虫病的流行病学调查

应用间接血凝试验 (IHA)对河北省家畜弓形虫病进行了检测 ,共检测猪血清 1 3 0 0份 ,其中阳性血清 4 64份 ,阳性率达 3 5 .69% ;绵羊血清 2 2 2份 ,阳性 5 7份 ,阳性率 2 5 .68% ;山羊血清 10 0份 ,阳性 10份 ,阳性率 10 .0 0 % ;牛血清 3 0份 ,阳性 8份 ,阳性率 2 6.67% ;马血清 4 3份 ,阳性 1份 ,阳性率 2 .3 3 % ;骡血清 2 8份 ,阳性 1份 ,阳性率 3 .5 7% ;驴血清 3 3份 ,阳性 2份 ,阳性率 6.0 6%