Critter News
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
An animal rights group has called for a federal investigation into the death of an elephant at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Umoya, a 21-year-old African elephant, died Thursday, possibly due to injuries suffered during an attack by another elephant. The Safari Park has 18 elephants, including Umoya's two offspring.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 17, 2009
Four animal welfare groups brought suit against the circus back in 2003. The lawsuit is bringing to light what many elephant experts and animal advocates have known for years: that these large, powerful and intelligent animals cannot be confined, subdued and forced to perform without a significant amount of physical force.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
written by Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins, published by Christopher Helm in 2003. It notes that there are around 1,000 people who have had birds named after them, but no fewer than three of them – Frank Linsly James, Eugenio Prince Ruspoli and Johan August Wahlberg – were killed by elephants, not a common form of death.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2012
But since Horton is an elephant, and since the creature that hatches from the egg is an elephant-bird, I’m going to wait till 10,000 Birds does a Hybrid Bird Week before discussing this representative of the Seussiverse. Hyperion Press, 2003. , which hit the beginning reader shelves in 1960. In Are You My Mother? by Mo Willems.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2018
Elephant Butte Dam area, New Mexico. Violet-crowned Hummingbird – Amazilia violiceps. Paton Center for Hummingbirds (Patons’ Yard). 12 Oct 2018. Curve-billed Thrasher – Toxostoma curvirostre. 09 Oct 2018. Broad-tailed Hummingbird – Selasphorus platycercus. Bosque del Apache NWR — Visitor Center. 08 Oct 2018.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2019
Elephant Butte Dam area, New Mexico. Restaurante Rincón Suizo–sendero en bosque de pino-encino. 11 Apr 2018. Gray Catbird – Dumetella carolinensis. Lakeview Drive Ponds. 01 Jan 2018. Curve-billed Thrasher – Toxostoma curvirostre. 09 Oct 2018. Brown Thrasher – Toxostoma rufum. Fort Tilden–Fishermans Parking Lot.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2018
Elephant Butte Dam area, New Mexico. Restaurante Rincón Suizo–sendero en bosque de pino-encino. 11 Apr 2018. Gray Catbird – Dumetella carolinensis. Lakeview Drive Ponds. 01 Jan 2018. Curve-billed Thrasher – Toxostoma curvirostre. 09 Oct 2018. Brown Thrasher – Toxostoma rufum. Fort Tilden–Fishermans Parking Lot.
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