Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2015

Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here. Note from KBJ: This post is by Mylan Engel.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 19, 2015

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

DogLand along with DOTT Dog Tag is having a secret location launch party on September 30th, 2015 and you are invited!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2018

Two environmental groups — Friends of Animals and Predator Defense — disagreed and filed suit against FWS, arguing that the plan to remove the Barred Owls violated the MBTA and other environmental laws. They argued that the scientific research exception only applied to research on the animal to be taken. July 16, 2015).

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Owls Endangered Species Oregon Friends Of Animals 123

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

June 9, 2015 – It’s deja vu all over again. It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds. ” Did you know that an estimated 300 refuges allow trapping of wild animals?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

About a quarter of the world’s Brown Bears live in Europe (including the Russian part of it), some 55,000, divided into nine separate and evermore fragmented populations – some of them dangerously tiny, a dozen or two dozen animals only. After all, bears are solitary and elusive animals. and Apennine peninsulas (30 + 50 ind.).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. He didn’t maim or touch the animals, period,” said his lawyer, Myles Breiner, during his not guilty plea. “He was there when this happened but he did not injure any birds.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

Reddit Animals

MAY 8, 2023

Hi, we've had two dogs (Teddy and Brandy) since 2015 who are just the cutest but on a sunny day as per his walking routine in 2018 Ted went off his leash and ran to a small kitten he found in the park who kept crying for her mother and just wouldn't leave her side.

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Reddit Animals

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Laura Erickson and Marie Read’s Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds (2015). Baicich and Colin J.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 267

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

The only bird-related activity I can think of is looking at bird photos I took in Singapore in 2015, and adding some irrelevant comments to them. Plus hopefully, you will be arrested for mistreating animals. Writing this post, I have been in lockdown in my Shanghai compound for 60 days.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2015

Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here.

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Reddit Animals

MAY 28, 2023

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2015

To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. Physically, the muscles and the bones of the animals atrophy from lack of use. FRIEDRICH Washington, Jan.

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New York Times New York Farm Sanctuary Gestation 40

Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factory farms by an overwhelming margin. All animals deserve humane treatment, including animals raised for food.” From the campaign website : (Nov. As of 11 PM PST, Prop 2 was leading 62% to 38%.

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Prop 2 Wayne Pacelle Proposition 2 California 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2018

In 2015, mice suddenly started attacking albatrosses sitting on nests and attacks have been steadily increasing since. The assessment walks through the potential impact of the preferred alternative as well as other alternatives, including a “no action” alternative, on habitat, animals, infrastructure, etc.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

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. In other words, in the last century we lost 97% of these animals and about 40% of their former range (source: WWF).

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Tigers India Killing 2012 251

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. Enough History – Back to the Future.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory comes up frequently in bird literature (one example I can think of off-hand is Nick Davies’ Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature, Bloomsbury, 2015), but if you’re not familiar with its basic ideas you must read the Introduction.

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North America Research Birds Groups 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

Both men lead trips for tour company Tropical Birding (Barnes is a founder), and they have also co-authored Wildlife of Madagascar (another WildGuide volume, 2016), Birding Ethiopia (with Christian Boix, 2010) and Wild Rwanda (with Christian Boix, 2015).

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Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 179

Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. Animals with more space are healthier, and they are no less productive.

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Veal 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

Sadly, this population too went into a steep decline until only 57 animals were left in Germany in 1997, raising fears about their imminent extinction in the country. At 21 kilograms, the male Great Bustard is amongst the heaviest animals able to fly, together with Kori Bustard, an African species.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

I think it is safe to say that yes, an intelligent animal is unhappy, even downright miserable, being confined to a crate two by seven feet for months on end. I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America.

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New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Texas A&M University Press, 2015. The writers have created a good book. If you are one of those 58.2 million people who feed wild birds, Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation is likely to enhance your enjoyment and expand your knowledge base. . Baicich, Margaret A. Barker, and Carroll Henderson.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 237

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The White-backed Vulture was “not considered of conservation concern until 2007, after which its threat status has been successively elevated, becoming Critically Endangered in 2015 following severe decline in several parts of range and likelihood of continuing decline.” ” (HBW).

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Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Interestingly enough, a similar situation with the same animal would unfold many years later – with a crushingly similar outcome for me. By 2015 I was assigned to lead a CBC group for the first time. Our jaunt for the CBC of 2015 turned out to be the first of many, as I have been assigned that area each count since then.

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Trinidad Livestock 2015 Groups 180

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Here are the top ten pet costumes of 2015 to give you some ideas. … Continue reading → The post Top Ten Pet Costumes of 2015 appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. With Halloween just around the corner, you might be wondering what your pet wants to be. We especially love the Ewok. Despicable Me Minion.

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2015 Pets Animal Dogs 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

Interestingly, the first description of a nest of Whitehead’s Spiderhunter was only published in 2015. So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. Must have been a camera fault.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Hence, the experiment was created: a plot was fenced off to keep the animals away and now willow saplings did survive being submerged for half a year. Naziridis explained: “In late summer, when there is no grass left to graze, some ranchers cut the fencing to let their animals into enclosures.” Then, there was a herd of buffaloes.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This has been looked at in other studies for ectotherms (the most obvious sorts of animals to be affected since they get their heat from ambient conditions) and elderly humans. The study looks at changes in the range of daily temperature variability. DTR has not been carefully studies in birds, which are endotherms, until now.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2015

We see interrelationships between plants, animals, and other features of a biological system that can be very complex and in various ways make sense. Ecology is amazing. But we also know from basic evolutionary theory that evolution works mainly at the level of the individuals (more or less). Science 347(6224):875-877.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

Cleverly illustrated with photographs, maps, and drawings, it focuses on easily found birds, animals, reptiles, insects, and plants and encourages nature-supported activities as both outings and a way of life. Page Street Publishing, 2018 (formerly Birding for the Curious , 2015), 176 p., The book’s goal is to change all that.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Although the official date for the Big White Bird survey is on October 11th 2015 the organisers are happy to receive any information on Sulphur-crested Cockatoos and Australian White Ibis now anywhere in Australia. They would like to know the numbers of these species around Australia on that date and surrounding dates.

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Papua New Guinea Birds 2015 Australia 134

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The two main areas, Greater Sundas and Wallacea, are separated by ‘Wallace’s Line,’ a boundary drawn in 1859 by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who realized that the two areas had totally different birds and animals. It includes articles by the authors too, in case you want to read more of their work.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

He has described six new species of Odonata from Costa Rica, including, in 2015, the Canopy Dragonlet, Erythrodiplax laselva , which breeds in bromeliads. Damselflies and dragonflies are predators, sometimes called the most successful predators in the animal world. CONCLUSION. and where to look (tree holes! forest clearings!

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

Californian farmers and ranchers would be prohibited from routinely dosing healthy farm animals with antibiotics under a bill getting its first level of approval on 21 April in the state Senate, reports Central Valley Business Times. Then we feed those same antibiotics daily to the animals they will consume.

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