10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2022
Mosco understands that there’s a wall of reasons why people hate Rock Pigeons and proceeds to dismantle them one by one using a powerful tool–information. “Pigeons have lost their usefulness. And when we stop thinking that animals are useful, we find it a whole lot easier to hate them” (p.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2012
When it noticed a piece of kelp with an air bladder attached, it abandoned the stuff near shore and made the short swim out to collect its prize. It was using the kelp as a TOOL to get across the water, a flotation device! I thought to myself “strange, I didn’t know they ate kelp.”
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
These crows have been shown to have a form of Theory of Mind or self-recognition, they understand some basic physics (mechanics, not quantum physics) at a level not seen in most animals, can fashion natural materials to make tools which, of course, they then use for extracting food from hard to get places, and so on.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 2, 2012
The Cesar Millan Foundation is dedicated to promoting animal welfare by supporting the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of abused and abandoned dogs and by delivering community humane education programs, including the Mutt-i-grees Curriculum. The Pack Walk is a movement towards reconnecting ourselves with our dogs and our community.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. Crows from the remote Pacific island of New Caledonia show incredibly high-level skills when they make and use tools. They get much of their food using tools, and they do this better than chimpanzees.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 4, 2008
Their only tool is the law of noncontradiction, which says that no proposition can be both true and false. If I can show you that one of your moral principles entails that it's wrong to eat meat, then, to avoid contradiction, you must either abandon the principle or abstain from meat. Philosophers are trained to do this.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
Furthermore, Binford claimed, if we maintained ideas of recently studied modern human hunter-gatherers in our brains, as the model for ancient hominids who used tools (sometimes associated with bones) we would tend to see those foragers, more or less, in the archaeological record of our past, whether they were really there or not.
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