Last week’s AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, September 22, 2025. Link.
Most read posts from September 22, 2025 AHD Bulletin –
- Job #1 – Getting results. Link.
- Older workers remain overlooked as sources of skill, experience. Link.
- Conditions associated with HPAI spreading to farms identified. Link.
- AAHA’s standards receive first-ever full refresh. Link.
- Nassau Co. warns residents about spread of rabies among raccoons, cats. Link.
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Why Gen Z doesn’t say hello when answering the phone
Source: Fast Company, September 19, 2025. Link. Gen Zers are typically averse to actually picking up the phone when it rings and nearly a quarter of the generation doesn’t even bother to answer. The most common reason? Scammers. Apparently, they are not alone, however, as bots automatically hang up if they don’t hear “hello” within the first three seconds of the call.
Do you know what these symbols mean? You should
Source: Britannica. Link. You probably see these symbols every day, but do you know what they’re trying to tell you? Fun quiz on 18 symbols.
What to know about Fat Bear Week, and the brawny bruins ready to battle for the title
Source: AP, September 18, 2025. Link. The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this year’s fattest bear title in the wildly popular annual online voting contest known as Fat Bear Week.
These ants found a loophole for a fundamental rule of life
Source: The New York Times, September 15, 2025. Link. When an animal parent has a child, both will belong to the same species. . . In a paper published earlier this month in Nature, researchers reported how queens of the Mediterranean harvest ant species Messor ibericus could produce male offspring of a different species, Messor structor. The M. ibericus ants then used the M. structor males to create hybrid workers who supported the colony.
How conjoined twin turtles were surgically separated in Virginia
Source: The Washington Post, September 20, 2025. Link. The first two turtle eggs hatched without a hitch. . . But the third egg looked different, said Kayla Short, a reptile specialist at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center in Roanoke, where the eggs had been laid by their mama in a terrarium.
