Critter News

APRIL 17, 2012

Outcry among vets ensued, and it was reinstated for veterinary use in 2004, but under such strict conditions that it is almost impossible to obtain. "It In the last eight years, only 5 percent of vets have obtained licenses to be able to use it," says Irina Novozhilova, president of VITA, an animal rights group. "I

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 24, 2012

With regard to wild animals, the general policy recommended by the rights view is: let them be! Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 361 [italics in original] [first edition published in 1983]) Too little is not enough. (

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Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

For example, there was a higher-than expected number of bats passing away each year between 2004 and 2008, but the zoo didn’t do anything to decide why. The stingrays passed away right after an interactive display opened that let visitors put their hands on them.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animal rights movement. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

But perhaps he boggled, and not unnaturally, at the conclusion that to determine whether an act is right we ought to take into consideration its consequences for every sentient being. I do not know why Bentham changed his mind.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 15, 2012

The rights view is not opposed to efforts to save endangered species. This is not what the rights view implies. Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 360 [italics in original] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

It should be observed, however, that if our analysis of the situation is correct, then this change in moral attitude resulted in a restriction of rights rather than an extension of them. The degree of restriction placed on human behavior, furthermore, is relatively slight.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

In the right season, with a little luck, we often find it, and sometimes it perches high and long enough that we can admire its scimitar of a bill, its stern face pattern, and even the patch of rusty red on the undertail that gives the species its English and its scientific names. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 25, 2008

John Passmore , "The Treatment of Animals," Journal of the History of Ideas 36 [April-June 1975]: 195-218, at 195 [italics in original; footnotes omitted])

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Animal Ethics

MAY 28, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 31 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2012

On Kant's view, rational beings, by which he means moral agents, are ends in themselves (have, that is, independent value, or worth, in their own right, quite apart from how useful they happen to be to others). As such, no moral agent is ever to be treated merely as a means. Moral agents (rational beings) are ends in themselves. (

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

On the contrary, if you are a traveling birder, you might just find your next birding destination right here on 10,000 Birds. PIP is situated right on a beautiful lake -- the place to be when its hot! Wicked, right? So, just because I’m being lazy, this does not mean that these posts will be of no use to you!

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Animal Person

JUNE 3, 2009

I watched Flow last night and though I did know about the evils of water privatization in other countries, I had no idea that communities (Michigan is featured) right here in the US are fighting huge multi-nationals for their own water.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 12, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 97-8 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983])

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Although it is impossible for me to prove this, you should take the word of this Overlord Ornithologist when I say there are simply more good birders around right now. Yellow-billed Magpie populations took a big hit when the West Nile Virus reached California’s Central Valley in 2004. This is a very, very good thing.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Now a Senior Leader with WINGS, Rick was a department editor at Birding from 2004 to 2008, editor of Winging It from 2005 to 2007 and currently writes Aimophila Adventures. Wicked, right? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 197-8 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983]) Cruelty is manifested in different ways.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2010

The only problem was that there are few options and the number one option (NPH/Humulin N) was the insulin that she had a severe reaction to back in 2004. We were approaching our the end of our supply of Vetsulin and transition to something else was inevitable.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And I received confirmation of something I've known since 2004, when we adopted retired racing greyhound, Violet Rays: That there's sort of a critical period for dog-behavior acquisition, and if it's missed, the dog isn't likely to mature into the type of loving being whose behavior we've come to associate with "pet" dogs.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

From 2004-2007 James worked as the Managing Director of Africa Foundation, a non-profit organization that directs its efforts towards the uplifting of communities surrounding wildlife areas in Africa. Wicked, right? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 21, 2007

My original interest was narrow: animal rights. Eventually these interests brought me to Joel Feinberg [1926-2004] and Tom Regan, and that opened up my philosophical world. It ranged over music, politics, and philosophy, but the most interesting subject was how each of us came to discover and fall in love with philosophy.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

From 2004-2007 James worked as the Managing Director of Africa Foundation, a non-profit organization that directs its efforts towards the uplifting of communities surrounding wildlife areas in Africa. Wicked, right? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In 2004, Robert Stevens was convicted of violating this law and sentenced to 32 months in prison for selling videos featuring pit bulls chasing wild boars on organized hunts and depicting a pit bull attacking the lower jaw of a domestic farm pig, according to the Philadelphia-based appeals court.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

It's one that's brought on, no doubt, by the acts of vandalism and intimidation of radical animal-rights groups, but I think it also serves to insulate the research community from any responsibility it might otherwise have to increase transparency and public engagement with the work.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

Whether individuals have legal rights depends on the laws and other legal background (e.g., the United States) citizens meeting certain requirements have the legal right to vote or run for elected office; in other countries (e.g., Libya) citizens do not have these rights. First, moral rights, if there are any, are universal.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

In addition to the illustrations, the book is well-designed with a very readable font, section headings in a brown font (sort of Wryneck plumage brown), and chapter names on the upper right-hand page. I somehow knew right away that the bird I saw was a Wryneck. copyright © 2022 Gerard Gorman.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2019

She wanted to join in the annual Audubon Christmas bird count in 2004, and she did — but she couldn’t identify a thing. (Might be a good subject for a continuing feature of some birding blogsite, too.). Stephanie Seymour’s starting story may not be unique but it must be unusual.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2014

That’s right, the salvation of my birding day relied upon me laying eyes on a Nanday Parakeet. I was bummed out but still hopeful that one of my three target species would show itself. The Nanday Parakeet , native to South America, was first observed in Florida in 1973.

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Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

Here in Seattle, NARN (Northwest Animal Rights Network) has been staging protests at a local restaurant that serves foie gras. In addition, back in 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger signed a bill making foie gras illegal starting in 2012. They've caught a lot of grief over it. I can't say I've always felt it was the best use of time.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Wicked, right? Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona. Hat-tip to Stella.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

I’m going to go right to a discussion of the Species Accounts, because I know that’s where you all want to be, with the warblers. I think the Stokes Field Guide to Warblers (2004) and Chris G. The Warbler Guide covers 48 warblers commonly seen in the United States, arranged in alphabetical order.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

From 2004-2007 James worked as the Managing Director of Africa Foundation, a non-profit organization that directs its efforts towards the uplifting of communities surrounding wildlife areas in Africa. Wicked, right? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14), unfairly characterized PETA’s efforts. In 2004, for example, The New York Times broke the story about a PETA undercover investigation that found routine animal abuse at AgriProcessors kosher slaughterhouse. To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

I’m going to go right to a discussion of the Species Accounts, because I know that’s where you all want to be, with the warblers. I think the Stokes Field Guide to Warblers (2004) and Chris G. The Warbler Guide covers 48 warblers commonly seen in the United States, arranged in alphabetical order.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

She’d then climb down my leg, waddle across the room, climb up Bill’s jeans, and bite him, once right in the middle of his back. The real test of hummingbird bonds came in 2004. On April 17, 2004, my husband Bill stepped out, coffee mug in hand, to take the morning sun. She’d land on a low twig right by my face and peep.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2018

Get a copy of the Birds of East Africa (2004) by Stevenson and Fanshawe – definitely the best guide for the region. No, I am not talking of Brazil or Columbia, they are not just in the tropics but more importantly, they are officially huge. Mongabay.com has done exactly that.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Gulls of the World: A Photographic Field Guide is a successor, or companion, as the author terms it, to Klaus Malling Olsen’s classic guide, Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004*). The pages are labeled on the left with the genus name (for example, Larus) and on the right with the brief title: Gulls.

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