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"Educate, Investigate, Liberate"

Animal Person

He recently wrote me: We are an abolitionist group and our approach is "Educate, Investigate & Liberate". We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry). Thanks a lot.

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Sherry Turner Teas: Brown Thrasher vs. Black Widow

10,000 Birds

In a soft release, you let the bird you’ve raised go but continue to provide food until they choose to be independent.) At first I ignored it, but it continued so I went to investigate. Even though I hand raised her from a baby, she was very wild so this was no easy task. Written by Sherry Turner Teas, Chattanooga, TN.

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Some Ingenuity Can Go a Long Way

10,000 Birds

Egyptian Vultures raised is isolation used rocks to crack eggs presented to them. In general, fish will swim to investigate anything that falls on the water hoping the object might be prey. As shown in the video, bait-fishing is more efficient than regular sit-and-wait fishing. The behavior was inherent.

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Birding Cuba, or ObservaciĂłn de aves en Cuba

10,000 Birds

.** They nest in palms, and we found a small area where we observed several couples investigating and preparing nest holes. I took a brief, wobbly, video of the process. Cervera on April 30th, 1927, and a recent sighting (no photographs or video) in November 2014 by ornithologist Andy Mitchell and naturalist Angel Martinez.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. There is also a video of Dr. Klem talking about his work on the website of the Acopian Center for Ornithology, Muhlenberg College. I’m not sure which format is the most affecting, probably both equally.)

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

See a video on how dogs think like us. See TIME’s video “ The New Frugality: Doggie Day Care.&#. See TIME’s video “ The March of TIME: Hunting Dog Field Trials.&#. To investigate why the kids made this counter intuitive mistake, the scientists rigged the cups to wires and then lowered them over the toy.

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini.