4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

With financial support from a major donor, FixNation launched in July 2007, but after this year that five year start-up grant has ended and officials with the organization say they’re on the verge of having to dramatically cut back operations in 2012. For more information, visit [link].

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 14, 2011

Our guest post today is from Marty McGee Bennett, an animal behaviorist, trainer and author whose new book is called, “The Problem with Weight is NOT Losing It: Let Animals Teach You How to Balance Your Weight.” Read on for some fascinating tips on how working with animals relates to our own weight! The Balance Differential.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

Right: Robert McCormick, by Stephen Pearce. Unlike Darwin, who was a self-funded gentleman naturalist on board, McCormick was bound to the Beagle by his duties and was furious that a civilian passenger on board had usurped his rightful position as ship’s naturalist. (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! Considering the fact that her lake lies conveniently close to the Moharli Gate, I suppose Telia would be the biggest earner of all the animals of Tadoba. He has earned his tip.

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Animal Person

JUNE 30, 2009

In March of 2007 I wrote, " in a horribly-depressing vote of 198-138, New Hampshire's House voted AGAINST a bill that would shut down live racing at its three greyhound race tracks." I'll tweet ( [link] )--or you can see updates over on the right column. Not 80% better--80% lame. Wish me luck!

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 6, 2007

To the Editor: “ Should Most Pet Owners Be Required to Neuter Their Animals? ,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Editorial Observer, July 30), is right: “The rate at which dogs are purchased and euthanized in this country is not a sign of our affection for them. Breeders kill shelter animals’ chances to find good homes.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

Eat right. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. What counts as eating right? Since the New Year's resolutions you have made for 2007 are your resolutions, I assume that you would actually like to succeed in keeping them. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

10, 2007 Note from KBJ: By what right do we take these animals out of the wild? They're wild animals! Wild animals should be left alone. Georgia State University Atlanta, Aug. Please don't say that they were born in captivity. They're not like dogs and cats, which evolved with humans.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ States Try to Weigh Safety With Dog Owners’ Rights ” (news article, July 23): Any law that deems a dog as dangerous or vicious based on appearance, breed or phenotype is unfair and discriminatory. Canine temperaments are widely varied, and behavior cannot be predicted by physical features.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

Consumers are right to be wary; rBGH threatens to undermine the safety of nature’s most perfect food. Andrew Kimbrell Executive Director Center for Food Safety Washington, June 29, 2007 To the Editor: Henry I. June 29, 2007 To the Editor: Henry I. June 29, 2007 The writers are cattle ranchers. To the Editor: Dr. Henry I.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Virtually everyone agrees that: (1) It is wrong to cause a conscious sentient animal to suffer for no good reason. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Some ornithologists strive for synthesis (see, for example, Gerald Mayr’s 2007 paper Avian higher-level phylogeny: well-supported clades and what we can learn from a phylogenetic analysis of 2954 morphological characters ), and I believe it’s in this approach that the future lies. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

Think of your favorite horror film: A brutal ruthless killer is on the loose, slashing hapless innocent victims to death right and left. you might wonder how it is that Cavel has been able to brutally slaughter horses for human consumption right here in the U.S. Then, on July 5, 2007, U.S. The answer is the proverbial loophole.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

The others follow, some dozen animals in all. This time they appear more relaxed, but nervousness might be a better politics: in 2007, poachers killed only 13 rhinos in South Africa, but in 2008 already 83, in 2009 – 122, in 2010 – 333, in 2011 – 448 and in 2012 a staggering 668! They are crossing one or two at a time.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

A 2007 genetic review of pigeons and doves ( Pereira et al. 2007 ) found three major clades within the order Columbiformes, which are nicely laid out by John Boyd here. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. What a horror! What a disaster!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

There had a been a Fairy Pitta in Derby in 2007 , but we were unable to get away from work to see it, so this would be a first for us. All of a sudden, back at the Sobrane Gallery, right there in the leaf litter on the far side of the underside of the building Grant spotted movement. This was only to be the second record for Australia.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

12): While this is a step in the right direction toward reducing the animal abuse inherent in all factory farming (from the chicken’s point of view), it’s still a long way from what nature intended. To the Editor: Re “ Suddenly, the Hunt Is On for Cage-Free Eggs ” (front page, Aug. Jean Bettanny Port Townsend, Wash.,

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! million hectares in 2007. During each trip we would discuss a destination for the following year. My clients insisted that they wanted to go to Ghana as they had heard that the birding was great.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 6, 2009

The school is best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups. (5) 3) George W. Romeo Vasquez, who led it, is an alumnus of the United States' School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).

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