10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
But best of all — the thing that shows, surely, that he was born under a lucky star, is this: he’s now (as of 2005, when he migrated, permanently, to Ohio) — a Buckeye. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences.
Animal Person
DECEMBER 2, 2011
Diabetes shortens the life expectancy of human and nonhuman animals, by years. We spent the end of 2004 and beginning of 2005 getting fired by vet after vet. He told me to stop going to the vet because that's what was killing Violet Rays. Violet was just under four-years old. She's our 62-pound miracle. Her eyes were vacant.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2013
The incipient ferociousness of the hawk set against the skyscrapers, the Red-tail’s stillness against the human rush. The magical happening opened up for her an inquiry into the natural, geological history of the city, and her essay becomes a meditation on natural change and human change, and finding one’s place between the two.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 22, 2007
Though it may be too late for too many, we can only hope that diseased animals are not left in pain but are humanely euthanized to end their suffering. In 2005, a survey commissioned by the International Fund for Animal Welfare showed that the Chinese are similar to Americans in their concern for animals.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 16, 2007
They may be killed in order to protect the health of humans (and other animals) if they are infected with a serious disease and cannot be quarantined. Hence, unlike humans, they cannot be called upon to sacrifice even for the good of other animals. This follows from everything said in the text about the rights of animals.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
Scott Weidensaul is a prolific writer of articles and books; his titles include Return to Wild America (2005), Of A Feather (2007), Peterson Guide to Owls (2015), and his first book on migration, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds ( 1999). This is big, global-level stuff with amazing findings but worrisome data.
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