Critter News
JULY 5, 2010
One hundred and twenty beagles who faced lifetimes being used in medical research experiments have been freed — just in time for the Fourth of July weekend. Best Friends Animal Society headquartered in Kanab, Utah, and Pets Alive Animal Sanctuary, based in Middletown, N.Y., and Elmsford, N.Y.,
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 26, 2014
NEW JERSEY – Animal shelters are full, they have no space, they often have no money, and they have a small amount of dedicated volunteers. Maybe it’s because they assume that a shelter animal is “broken”, or that they think they would never be able to give the animal up to an adopter, it would break their heart.
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4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 12, 2012
Rock & Rawhide , a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that aims to increase adoptions for dogs and cats in shelters by providing toys and other items that serve as a form of distraction therapy, reducing the stress and noise levels. Research has shown that if noise and stress are reduced, adoptions go up!
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2015
GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. Experienced birders can identify birds using GISS; all birders can identify birds if they adopt the BBI approach. There is GISS and there is Birding by Impression and they are not the same.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2019
It will be interesting to see if the proposal is adopted and this guide becomes the first to employ the new official usage, or if it sparks other bird guide authors to revolt against the system. Rick Wright agrees. Personally, I find the lack of an apostrophe-s easy to adapt to in writing, but strange when I say it out loud.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2013
Many years of experience have been lost. Eventually, when the circle was adopted, it was discovered that some circles overlapped. The New York City area’s Christmas Bird Count density is absurd. (It Bird clubs would start a count in their general geographical area and count traditional locations.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. Long before that time Mexican domesticated Turkeys had been adopted by Native Americans in the American Southwest as well. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. Kiva 78(1):37–60. Reitz, Elizabeth. Thornton, E.,
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