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Birding Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

10,000 Birds

Resource partitioning is basically the term for liking different things, which makes it easier to live together (think you eating most of the meat and your wife eating most of the vegetables of a shared dinner). The first bird I saw in Saigon was less exotic though – a Eurasian Tree Sparrow.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Animals as Raw Material

Critter News

I came across this article in USA Today entitled "Waste not, want not: Companies find uses for leftover animal parts." Now, meat companies are putting more resources into sustainability programs, says Paul Rutledge of the American Meat Institute's sustainability committee. Let's change the subject a little bit.

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Washington Town to Become Horse Slaughter Capital?

Critter News

horses destined to die and be butchered in one of Canada’s equine slaughterhouses for human consumption abroad.” The story, by author and animal rights activist Ernest Dempsey calls Stanwood, Washington “Death Row for horses” because of the location not far away of a “major buying station, collection point and feedlot for U.S.

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A Self-Interested Reason to Not Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

Here’s another self-interested reason to not eat meat: Drug-resistant bacteria are routinely found in beef, chicken, and pork sold in supermarkets. To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

At least bacon is meat,” added Letitia Labbie. “We I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” Human breast milk – no, don’t get me started. “Poor thing was hyperglycemic.”. How many hawks have we taken in who have been fed bacon?” asked LouAnn Partington.

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Guest Post: Understanding Pet Food Labels

4 The Love Of Animals

De-mystify the labeling on a lot of pet food – “natural,&# “raw,&# “human grade,&# “FDA approved&#. Human Grade” is far superior to the “feed grade” found in most pet food. Human grade” ingredients may include leftovers after the “restaurant grade” portions have been removed.

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