Wildlife death and illness reports: WHISPers, hosted by the USGS National Wildlife Health Center, is a repository for sharing basic information about historic and ongoing wildlife mortality (death) and/or morbidity (illness) events.
Category: Animal Databases
Mapping Elephants and Bees
Two large-scale scientific efforts have rendered in-depth DNA and historic/geographic/behavioral mapping of elephants and bees. The results of both endeavors will help conservation and protection efforts to save endangered elephants and bees.
How to Bee
Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab keeps tabs on the country’s bee species.
Calling All Dogs for Dog Aging Study
Call for participants for a first of its kind study on dog aging. In the first major longitudinal study involving dogs, scientists will study the factors surrounding dog aging. The Dog Aging Project will look at dogs from all breeds and mixes from across the nation.
Dogs Most Likely to Bite: Study
A new study identifies dog breeds and physical traits that pose the highest risk of biting with severe injury.
Database: Social Animals
A team of biologists has compiled and standardized data on 790+ animal social networks.
Doggy Database
Here are some datasets that can be used for some serious analyses (spay-neuter data) or just plain fun like finding … More
Another Bizarre Installment in the USDA Saga: Blacked Out Docs Regarding the Inexplicable Removal of the Animal Abuse Database
We Asked the Government Why Animal Welfare Records Disappeared. They Sent 1,700 Blacked-Out Pages. National Geographic In January, the USDA … More
USDA Does Tiny Reversal of Radical Animal Welfare Data Purge
As many animal welfare advocates suspected, it appears that politics and profiteering may be behind the USDA’s mysterious rub-and-scrub of … More
Captive Animals Lose Public Monitoring
Animal welfare scorecard: Industries profiting from the use of animals = 1 ; Captive animals = 0 USDA … More
Animal Welfare Advocates Weigh-in on USDA Humane Labeling
If you care about the welfare of animals and have been following this issue, or if you know anyone who … More
Data Science to Help Endangered Species
Here is an exciting new tool to help stop the illegal trafficking of endangered wildlife: Software developed by data scientists … More