Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

This is the same place that was nailed by a Humane Society undercover investigation. The Humane Society wants 9 chimps that are not being "used" as part of experiments to be released to a sanctuary. Tags: chimpanzees animal research humane society chimp haven new iberia research center primates. Interesting. percent of our DNA.

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Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

As the future of whales once more comes under global debate, some scientists say the marine mammals are not only smarter than thought but also share several attributes once claimed as exclusively human.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Readers with a pornographic mindset will enjoy the following information about the Dusky Moorhen: “Simultaneously promiscuous, forming breeding groups of 2–7 apparently unrelated birds; individuals sometimes switch groups between seasons. Within group, all males copulate with all females.” ” (HBW).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

While preparing an article this week for a local newspaper on the nighttime denizens of Tobago, it crossed my mind that I never considered owls as a group, far less target species for any particular outing (except for a select few, upon which I shall expound here). Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The babblers have a sentinel system – individual birds take turns scanning for predators and warning the group. … These intense displays can continue for extended periods, with subordinates contributing more than dominants, until one group gives up and retreats. Thanks for pointing it out though.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” Our world has changed, and humans have created that change. The difference seems obvious.

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Reddit Animals

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this article, we'll explore the behaviors of cheetahs in the wild, debunk common misconceptions, and delve into their interactions with humans. Their social structure is often limited to family groups, with a mother and her cubs forming a temporary unit until the offspring become independent.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2021

And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. It is the only federal research group dedicated to studies needed to manage the National Wilderness Preservation System. Thus, it prohibits cars, trucks, off-road vehicles, bicycles, and motorboats, except in emergencies.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2020

Even group birding mostly falls in the category of “parallel play” Which is just fine with me! After all, no human contact need be involved. It was sitting on a marina walkway, so it was clearly acclimated to human presence.). Chatty birders, frankly, drive me a little crazy. Come as close as you like.

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Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

It seems like creating packs is the best survival method for animals and humans. which are also animals) On Netflix's "Predators" they show a Puma family that doesn't form a pack but it seems like life in a group would be a lot easier. Similarly wolves and coyotes do form packs and have quite a bit of success.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 28, 2012

This is human chauvinism. The anthropomorphic side reads: "It is anthropomorphic to attribute characteristics to nonhumans that belong only to humans." The human chauvinism side reads: "It is chauvinistic not to attribute characteristics to those nonhumans who have them and to persist in the conceit that only humans do."

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Reddit Animals

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Although I love dogs they're too dependent on humans, it's true that stray/feral dogs can form packs and survive in the wild a regular dog like a golden retriever would get eaten by a lion instantly. They are much more independent and still behave similarly to wild cats they are still pets and rely on humans to survive.

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Reddit Animals

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

I tried to search the internet for that and for people who raise pets in farms, ranchs, etc, could never find a good answer about how it goes if you keep your pet's entire group of children together with the parent(s) and don't give them away.

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 17, 2024

Only human hands are possible to do such things! Tola confirmed the human abuse but everyone else tried to make her to look wrong! March 16, 2024: Martha Poultidou, the president of the Panhellenic Group Against Animal Cruelty, is still working on the case and the suspect has been finally got charged for his actions!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2023

In nature, nothing is without purpose; human intervention is what has turned a peaceful forest dweller into a demonic pest after all. The whole reason I was exploring this area can be traced to a report of multiple sightings of small groups of the migratory Yellow-billed Cuckoo. But little has been said about its ecological function.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

At Bird Uganda Safaris, Herbert and his team established a project Saving Primates through which they have been raising funds to support these groups with food relief, seeds to plant, and will further continue supporting the with more skills in various services that are demanded by tourists.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

Thanks to groups like Alley Cat Allies, outdoor and feral cats have become above the law. There would then be three options: 1) re-home them to people who will keep them inside; 2) drop them off at an animal shelter as far away as possible; or 3) humanely euthanize them. You call the SWAT team. What birds need is their own SWAT team.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2021

Normally the slender, fairy-feathered shorebirds are shy and avoid the humans who encroach on their territory. On a sunny day in early April Gay transported the egret to Chincoteague Island, joined Elton in his boat, and motored out to where the group had gathered. Snowy Egrets like to keep their distance.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2015

The findings of this research, as summarized by Discover Magazine : Zebra Finches are a good proxy for studying human speech. So researchers got a group of males good and liquored up (using juice with 6.5% They also believe their results demonstrate the bird’s potential for further studies of how alcohol affects human speech.

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Reddit Animals

JUNE 14, 2023

Popular hunting magazines make animal rights groups like they're the bad guys. "We need to watch out for the ASPCA, the humane society, PETA, etc." It seems both political parties do nothing for animals. I've gotten to the point where I don't even vote anymore. What are we to do? " I'm so disgusted.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again. Borderlands Campaign – Sierra Club Facebook group for this issue. As a youngster who loved to read, I thought the best way to stop this assault was with words.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book’s twelve chapters can be divided into groups of 5, 5, 1 and 1. His photographs fill each page, offering visions of the island’s creatures, flora, and geography at varying ages and stages and in every season, as seen in close-up and at a distance. They complement Kricher’s text.,

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these species are declining in number, having to share their limited geographical range with an expanding human population without a doubt impedes their ability to proliferate as needed. While the rest of the group huddled around the scope and eagerly scanned the surrounding forest, we utilised a different tactic.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2016

That’s what a group of researchers suggest in a paper recently published in Behavioral Ecology. Further, the researchers add, just as cuckoos (like the Common Cuckoo above photographed by Redgannet) display a tendency toward skittishness around humans, so too do songbird predators such as raptors.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

I’m a big fan of the antelopes, a group that is most commonly associated with Africa but which also occurs in Asia and, if you stretch the term to be cladistically meaningful, Europe and North America. By this I mean applying the term antelope to cover all of the family Bovidae, which would include the sheep, goats and ox.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. Next time, I’ll know why. Is the ship-assisted vagrant a ‘true’ vagrant?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2016

For humans, you have the drama of sister wives. And for wild pheasants ( Common , in Europe; or Ring-necked , stateside), a bigger group may actually present an existential danger. Having a harem sounds like a pretty sweet deal. After all, variety is the spice of life, no? But this breeding and social arrangement has its risks.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

(My region, thankfully, only seems to host migratory Hermit Thrushes from this group. Catharus Thrushes are small forest-dwelling Thrushes, and the Nightingale-Thrushes are the members of this group that have never become migratory. Having said all of this, I must say that the Nightingale-Thrushes are a charming little group.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2016

After pursuing parallel missions and collaborating on everything from conferences to scientific publications, the two groups recently finalized their merger. The resulting organization “will advance ornithology by combining our assets—human, financial, and intellectual,” according to AOS President Steven Beissinger.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Europeans must use these to come and bear away in the name of civilization all these dregs of the human race. And so it seems, given what he wrote: “Here you can penetrate anywhere, only not with the Gospels under your arm, but with money in your pocket, a carbine in one hand and a whip in the other.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2016

federal government’s Operation Migration program, which has used ultralight aircraft to teach migration routes to the endangered cranes, has flown its last group of Whoopers from Wisconsin to Florida. But this interaction with humans apparently interfered with adult birds’ ability to successfully mate and rear chicks.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

We’re pleased to share his thoughtful perspective and plea for your consideration… Dear Friends and Lovers of Birds, On Friday, October 14th, to my knowledge, the first feature film with the subject being Birding ever made, with any intent to portray birders as human beings, will be released. Advertisers will notice.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

”, which by some remarkable coincidence is also the title of a paper on “Physical-Attractiveness Evaluations and Dating Preferences as a Function of One’s Own Attractiveness” (among humans, not Grey-capped Greenfinches). This is not an issue here in Shanghai – I have only seen them in very small groups this winter.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2019

To protect these species into the future, nonprofit groups like Audubon will continue to preserve their natural habitat along dunes and beaches, while protecting novel chick-rearing locations on human-made infrastructure. Today, the seabirds also nest on the gravel rooftops of buildings.

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