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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

10,000 Birds

Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree. A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Ok, so you’ve rescued a bird.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. Animal Rescues: Feeling Compassion for Those in Need. by Marc Bekoff. Photo by Evan Long.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

10,000 Birds

Basically, this species is so dimwitted, it doesn’t know how to survive. Because, Pink Pigeons are not capable of doing the tasks required to create and bring up children of the species. Don’t these birds care about propagating their species? What happened to Thelma and Louise? I know, that’s harsh.

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