Interesting Article on Finch Self Medication

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Interesting Article on Finch Self Medication

Post by tovis » Mon May 28, 2012 11:59 pm

I came across this article online, wonder if any of you have read it and what you think.

http://carduelis.xoom.it/ART/e_sms_prima1.html
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Post by Sally » Tue May 29, 2012 3:36 am

Don't know if this is the same exact article or not. This guy was selling articles online before. Here is a link to the thread that discussed them in the past:

http://www.finchforum.com/viewtopic.php ... 56&p=25190

The articles discussed in that thread were very interesting, but the guy had quite a reputation in the UK, not good from what I gathered at the time.
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Post by tovis » Tue May 29, 2012 7:22 am

Oh interesting. I'll have to read that link.
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Post by tovis » Wed May 30, 2012 1:22 pm

Read the posts - are his theories rejected because they deviate from the status quo? Nothing really concrete jumped out at me.
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Post by Sally » Wed May 30, 2012 4:14 pm

I was told that it wasn't so much his theories as the methods he used to test them that were objectionable to many finch owners in the U.K.
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Post by tovis » Wed May 30, 2012 11:28 pm

So it was his ethics then.
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