Abandonment Examples Humane Research 
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2024
” A group of nine researchers published a paper titled “Exploring the fecal microbiome of the Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)” Makes you wonder what they talked about during their lunch breaks. But while humans mainly try to stay slim and fit for health reasons, Eurasian Siskins care more about the danger of being eaten.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds. But that’s another story. Here’s the idea.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2021
There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. A good part of The Glitter in the Green is devoted to the history of how hummingbirds have been treated and depicted and valued or not valued by human beings.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
For example , fallen figs do not seem to mind catching a ride with Oriental Pied Hornbills. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. There are some reports of the species having bred in captivity, for example, in a British Wild Life Park.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. Where it is not – for example, in Japan – it will have difficulties finding a partner to mate. It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. Patrol and enforce wildlife-damaging violations, including the taking of endangered native plants, capturing turtles, riding ATV’s on pedestrian trails, and abandoning fishhooks.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is it any wonder that Pink Pigeons were on the brink of extinction when humans intervened? Passenger Pigeons, for example.
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