King gives whales human rights in bid to stop global slaughter
Reddit Animals
APRIL 10, 2024
Amazingly not the first time non-humans have been given the same rights as people. link] submitted by /u/Drwatson99999 [link] [comments]
Why are most animals cool with other animals, but freak out with humans?
Reddit Animals
MAY 8, 2024
The turtle didn't speed up or go the opposite direction, it just kept slowly crawling, getting right up close to the bird, who didn't even seem to pay it any mind as it passed. Different species seem to be cool with eachother, but afraid of humans? I know if I walked up both would have scrammed. Why is that?
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Why Humans Are the Only Ones with Rights
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2011
Someone posted a question about why humans have human rights and whether they should considering that others do not. Therefore, we are the only ones who matter and the only ones who should have rights. In the matter of science, and there are varying levels of this viewpoint, the human is the most advanced of creatures.
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How did the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale get its name?
Reddit Animals
JANUARY 5, 2024
People in North America began using the term “right whale” in the early 1700s, and originally “right” may have meant “typical,” as these whales were considered common and ordinary. However, over time, the term evolved to refer to how they were hunted—they were considered “the right whales to hunt.”
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Birdie Magnetic Sense and Human Generated Electromagnetic Fields
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2014
Bird migration is cool and important and a major adaptation right? In human terms, your ability to navigate your way from your home in Springfield, USA, to Bora Bora is the same ability that gets you from home to the grocery store and back, slightly adapted for a larger scale. See this and this for more on that sort of thing.).
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You Will See (or Hear) These
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2024
This is a species that has very much learned to cohabit with humans, causing its population to explode into new areas. All right, I’ll admit that we also have some more drab trash birds as well. Along the seashore, around lakes, and in most cities, the Great-tailed Grackle definitely qualifies as a trash bird.
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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
You might think that birds don’t change the world, birds are the world – but by his odd title, Ten Birds That Changed the World, author Stephen Moss means, he says, that birds have, in various ways, led to “paradigm shifts” in human history. Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history.
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Poor hedgehog. Did I do the right decision? I still think of my little fellow from times to times.
Reddit Animals
DECEMBER 15, 2023
I think I did the right decision but it was not an easy one. He was looking at me like “ what are you doing here human? I sometimes think about this accident and hope I did right. I was calculating for quite some time and finally concluded that the hedgehog would have had high chances of surviving the hit. So adorable.
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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged.
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Changing Career? 7 Ways To Make The Right Change First Time
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2017
But how do you ensure that the change you make is the right one first time round? I wanted to share with you seven ways you can make sure that the change you implement when it comes to your career is the right one for you. This is your opening contact with prospective employers so it needs to be right.
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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"
Animal Person
APRIL 5, 2011
A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable.
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Birding Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2023
As the rice paddies near Kota Kinabalu described in an earlier post , Tanjung Aru beach is not really a major birding spot in its own right. The Long-tailed Parakeet can sometimes be seen here feeding right next to the Blue-naped Parrot. Like many humans, it is presumed to be monogamous (source: HBW).
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How to ‘treat’ your cat right
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
Pets come to depend on their owners, trusting them to do what’s best for them, and every owner should make the effort to treat their pet right. Just like people, pets that are not treated right can suffer from stress and other health problems, and an inadequate diet, for example, will make cats more prone to infections and illnesses.
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Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior, by John Kricher — a review
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2020
How, to humans, is “behavior” separate from the bird itself? Among their other uses, wings are also employed for balance during copulation, a not unimportant or inconsequential usage, as the male Bald Eagle ably demonstrates in the photo, above right. What do we mean, anyway, by bird “behavior”? Other than purely physical things (e.g.,
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On "The Road" and Humanity
Animal Person
JUNE 12, 2010
When the landscape is barren and there are few living creatures of any kind, people begin to lose their humanity. And that's when they start to do the unthinkable: eat other humans. Bad guys treat humans the way they'd treat animals. Clothes and shoes in this film are largely connected to humanity (not to mention survival).
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Birding in a Refinery
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2023
Whether the courtship efforts of the Green Kingfisher or a showdown between Muscovy Ducks , birds continued to carry out their business unconcerned of human eyes. These two Muscovy drakes brutally battled for about ten minutes right in front of us. They are all free-flying and can choose to stay or leave as they please.
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261 Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
It’s become regrettably political in the US right, which is the absolute worst response to a potential pandemic going. My parents are in England, should I be worried about the conflict on the other side of Europe in the Ukraine?” ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment.
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Humane Society Puts Pressure on South Carolina's Bear Baying
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2010
Ugh, this is barbaric and right out of the dark ages. Armed with new undercover video of four such events, the Humane Society of the United States is pressuring state officials to explicitly outlaw the practice, which the organization says is effectively banned in every other state. From the AP.
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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not. Harris’s are also, according to Cowan, smarter than other hawks; they hunt in packs and, for that reason, may welcome humans as hunting partners more so than other raptors. We serve them.”.
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Beliefs About Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
JULY 24, 2015
Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here. Note from KBJ: This post is by Mylan Engel.
The Link Between Animal Welfare and Human Welfare
Critter News
JUNE 12, 2012
This is an interesting opinion piece about the link between animal welfare and human welfare in nations. From the Huffington Post.
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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai in October 2021
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Estren said that humans should be mindful of their bias for cute animals, so animals that would not be considered cute are also valued in addition to cute animals. And yet, it is surprisingly easy to see here in the right season (if you look in the right places). Oriental Scops Owls are quite possibly my favorite bird at Nanhui.
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Whooper Swans at Lake Kussharo, Hokkaido
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2024
They are ridiculously unafraid of people there – so the cynic in me suspects that swan meat is not regarded as tasty by the Japanese (another explanation, that the Japanese just like animals too much, can presumably be discarded given the country’s very principled approach in insisting on the right to kill whales).
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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?
Animal Person
MAY 10, 2009
In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic.
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On Dolphins as a Gateway to Animal Rights
Animal Person
JANUARY 6, 2010
I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. Would you actually actively campaign against rights for some species?
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New Hub for Animal Rights
Animal Person
DECEMBER 18, 2009
Stephanie Ernst, formerly of Change.org , has started a new space called " Animal Rights and AntiOppression " and she has invited yours truly to post there!
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10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2015
What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Human rights, property rights, and wildlife rights – all in one steel container.
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National Animal Rights Conference in LA Starts July 16
Critter News
JUNE 25, 2009
Some of the groups attending will be: FARM In Defense of Animals Sea Shepherd ACT Radio Anti-Fur Society E/Environmental Mag Eko Zone Healing Species League of Humane Voters Mercy For Animals Stop Animal Exploitation Now! Tags: animal rights. Vegetarian Times VegNews Magazine The link came from ALF, but they aren't listed on the site.
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Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
I'm a longtime proponent of animal rights, but this suit is ridiculous. First, the 13th Amendment was designed to abolish human chattel slavery. Second, it is not a necessary condition for the possession of rights (legal or otherwise) that one be a person. The right is defeasible, of course, as it is in the case of humans.
Birding Ruili, Yunnan
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2024
Ruili is a Chinese city right on the border to Myanmar, and a major border crossing. Fortunately for human males, the typical courtship of humans differs from that of the Coppersmith Barbets , which the HBW describes as follows: “When the nest is ready, the male may begin courtship feeding, offering fruit to the female.
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On Humane Societies and Calf-Roping
Animal Person
JULY 1, 2009
Angus directed me to a story about the Calgary Stampede (rodeo) and the Calgary and Vancouver Humane Societies which had me asking: Whose side are they on? The Calgary Humane Society works with the Stampede to make sure the animals are safe (and by the way that's impossible if the animals are being used in the rodeo. Not the rodeo.
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Dipping in Guyana
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2024
A forest trail with enclosing vines and branches on either side gradually ascended to a point where the foliage gave way to giant boulders, and here I immediately knew I was in the right place to see this iconic species. Typically, there would be at least one male already at the lek, even as human observers would be getting in position.
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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of April 2020?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2020
We humans may desperately want to migrate somewhere better, but birds have to. Keep your eyes open, because new species may be showing up right outside your window. If you have, please take a moment to appreciate another global phenomenon currently moving untold millions of individuals across the world: zugunruhe.
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160 Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?
Critter News
AUGUST 27, 2009
I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. At the same time, do we have the time to wait for everyone to become vegan to enact laws that will at least allow more humane care in the short term.
A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2021
And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. Thus, it prohibits cars, trucks, off-road vehicles, bicycles, and motorboats, except in emergencies.
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Study Claims Islamic Slaughtering More Humane
Critter News
DECEMBER 9, 2008
The Islamic practice of slaughtering animals by means of a sharp cut to the front of the neck has frequently come under attack by some animal rights activists as being a form of animal cruelty, the claim being that it is a painful inhumane method of killing animals. What an utterly grotesque project.
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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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Guide to birding the Forgotten Road in the Djerdap National Park, Serbia
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2022
But there was one more thing I evaluated, the human infrastructure, the potential guides among the national park employees. You can park by the side and check the Boljetinska River Canyon at your right, a true geological history book. But, as I said, keep right, down the northern slope and into the forest for the next 11 kilometres.
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15 Australian Birds (Episode 1)
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
In my imagination, the job of a male Australian Brush Turkey is pretty similar – removing or adding bits and pieces to his pile of rotting vegetation in order to get the right temperature to incubate the eggs buried underneath to hatch. So, as a preemptive strike, I present to you the Golden-headed Cisticola.
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Young Thrushes
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2022
Clearly a maddening situation for any right-thinking thrush. I had never seen other young thrushes before that last walk I just mentioned as the other species tend to breed in more remote environments far away from concentrated human settlement. They seem to be a bit angry for the most part. Wise creatures.
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Birding Yancheng, Jiangsu
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
According to Wikipedia, these birds are good at multitasking, being “in some parts of its range … known as a symbol of luck, longevity, and fidelity” As in humans, “the social implications of dancing [among the cranes] are complex in meaning” ( source ). If everybody did this, the result would be chaos.
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Birding Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 24, 2020
As we humans are animals, like birds are, it often seems to make more sense to me to assume that their and our drivers are similar, not different. Of course, we humans tend to give slightly elevated terms to our motives – but that does not generally mean that they are really different from those of other animals.
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Greece: Oliver the Husky
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! If you care about animals's rights please share this everywhere! __ ! And that's not the worst part since there are various witness and no one is talking! The veterinarian K. LATEST NEWS !
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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review
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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