Critter News

JUNE 1, 2009

Michael Sargeant was originally charged with two felony bribery charges, but on May 13, 2009, he pled no contest to one misdemeanor count of engaging in anti-competitive practices. He used a company check to purchase another $1,000 gift certificate, which he gave to Harmon in 2006.

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Shelters Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF Animal Cruelty 100

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JANUARY 22, 2015

As our Gypsy comes to a halt, one Oriental Honey Buzzard is investigating the new arrivals. In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. Finally, the shores of the Telia lie in front of us.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 237

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JUNE 21, 2019

A PEC biologist expresses extreme frustration as he investigates a site where a dead eagle has been found. The bee footage is actually of Rettig in Gamboa in 2009, but I am going to assume that he had a similar, unfilmed experience in the Philippines. PEF Executive Director Dennis Salvatore is devoted but weary.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

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FEBRUARY 5, 2012

A few dead birds were collected by authorities and sent to a laboratory for investigation. It subsequently spread to Budapest/ Hungary (2005, 2006), Zürich/ Switzerland (2006), and north-east Italy (2008/2009). The first detection outside Africa occurred in Vienna/Austria between 2001 and 2006.

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Germany Blackbirds 2006 Denmark 159

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 10, 2010

It, too, traced, with a great deal of investigative reporting, the journey fat trimmings take through the meatpacking industry. 31, 2009 To the Editor: Let me see if I have this straight: We are now feeding our children stuff that used to be reserved for dog food, by treating it with ammonia, in order to save three cents a pound?

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New York Times New York Hamburgers United States 40

Animal Person

JUNE 27, 2009

If you dare, check out this small chart and these diagrams , and also please let me know if you know of any from 2008 or 2009. it's that you don't know what's in your food or where it came from until you read the label, and then investigate beyond the label. If there's a lesson in Food Inc.,

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Fast Food Chickens Farming Medical 100

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MARCH 18, 2011

Read Tim’s account and enjoy his (and the Tambopata Macaw Project’s Alan Lee’s) photos judge for yourself… (NOTE: we first published this post in January 2009 but have to run it again because it is so good!) Is this one of the ornithological highlights on the planet? Licking Clay’ Text and Photographs copyright T.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Often, as I have been investigating the contents of a nest by making a small hole in the side, the parent birds have come right to the nest, where they immediately begin to repair the damage even before my departure!”. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 188

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

To investigate why the kids made this counter intuitive mistake, the scientists rigged the cups to wires and then lowered them over the toy. The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on November 24, 2009. Perhaps that’s the most telling sign of just how evolved dogs are.

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Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 100

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JULY 3, 2018

He roots the theft in the history of collecting bird skins, in the brief life history of Edwin Rist, in the secretive world of classic fly tying, and in his own efforts to follow up on a police investigation that got the man but not all of the loot. And, rage and frustration.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 102

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APRIL 21, 2011

It is, rather, determined by its correct learning of the song as it is sung locally by members of its species, plus other non-genetic factors we will not investigate today. Animal Behaviour Volume 78, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 637-641. 2010.0437 3 Nemeth, Erwin and Henrik Brumm. 4 Luther, David and Luis Baptista. Proc Biol Sci.

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Zebras Birds Humane Raised 248