10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2018

In Australia where the endemic prey population has evolved without cats, the problem has reached the stage where drastic measures have been imposed. There is a cat curfew for domestic animals in some states and a cull has been instigated to try to reduce the number of feral felines, currently estimated at 2 million.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Others are being killed for use in traditional medicine. There is a man who left this country with the character of a first rate naturalist (though with many eccentricities) and of a very first-rate Natural History artist and he goes to Australia and takes up the subject of Botany, of which he is as ignorant as a goose.”

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Each animal they raise to adulthood is a step away from extinction, with the ultimate challenge to return them to the wild. We’ll see ambitious programs to save diverse species from the outback of Australia, the savannahs of East Africa, the Brazilian Amazon and some of the most successful zoo breeding programs in the world.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

As keen birdwatchers, who just happened to have found the Night Parrots in Western Australia, they were keen to look for the Fairy Pitta at first light the next day. This was only to be the second record for Australia. Sadly it had recently been killed and was lying in the garden bed beside the path. They were also devastated.

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Australia Litter Geese Cats 120

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

Why does the Bush administration think that it is wrong for the Japanese to kill whales but permissible for the U.S. Whoever thought President Bush was a pro-animal environmentalist? People like Adolf Hitler are pro-animal environmentalists! People like Adolf Hitler are pro-animal environmentalists! Navy to do so?

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Whales Whaling Los Angeles Mammals 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

When going to Australia, one of the two birds I wanted to see most was the Tawny Frogmouth. Birdlife Australia does not try to hide being puzzled over the naming of the Pacific Black Duck : “Despite being predominantly brown, the Pacific Black Duck has always been known as the ‘black duck’. ” ( source ).

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Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 230

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Genyornis newtoni lived in Australia, and recent research suggests that humans may have played a role in the extinction of this dinosaur laughingly called a bird, about 40,000 years ago. The whole human-caused extinction of megafauna, in Australia and elsewhere, is a dynamic area of research and things change all the time.

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Humane Killing Australia Eggs 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

Well, Copenhagen Zoo is back in the news; a few weeks after killing a giraffe and feeding it to some lions, it went and killed some of those same lions. If the whole thing passed you by then Mother Jones did a good piece on why zoos sometimes have to kill individuals for the good of the species.

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

Critter News

JULY 7, 2009

This particular animal research controversy is occurring in New South Wales (Australia). Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. From the online Sydney Morning Herald.

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Medical Research Animal Research Medical Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Owls live and migrate from Arctic circumpolar to Colorado prairie to South American rainforest to Southeast Asian islands, Galapagos islands, Canary islands–many many islands–to coastal Australia and onward. Owls are in danger from the usual threats–habitat destruction, climate change, human intrusion. They are also hunted.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 213

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2013

I often like to poke fun at how dangerous the wildlife of Australia is, as ever since the giant man-eating Haast’s Eagle went extinct the land life on New Zealand has been mostly harmless. But the thing is, while the animals may not want to kill you, it sometimes feels as if the land itself does.

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New Zealand Vanuatu Australia Hawaii 167

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

The prehistoric extinctions most famously include the megafaunal assemblages of Europe, the Americas, Australia and Madagascar. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species. Comebackers. 314 U.S.

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Marsupials Costa Rica Elephants Cuba 169

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

The large, pied, knob-headed Magpie Goose of Australia and New Guinea is the sole living member of an early anseriform waterfowl lineage. The Secretarybird is a powerful, long-legged terrestrial hunter particularly well known for killing snakes by stamping them to death but also perfectly happy to consume other animal prey.

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Madagascar Comoros South America Ecuador 277

Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Tree, 44, has been rewarded for his compassion by rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) which gave him its Hero to Animals Award. I also agree with PETA that the guy they've arrested for starting the fire should face animal cruelty charges. And getting recognition he deserves for his kindness.Mr

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Koalas Animal Rights PETA Rights 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The irredeemably awful and generally terrible government of Tony Abbott is flailing around and one by-election away from open war on itself, and perhaps could use a distraction to take Australia’s minds off its stances on Syrian refugees, gay marriage and war on clean energy. This awesome bird actually tried to kill me.

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Australia Chickens Birds Seals 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

They are software mascots, cartoon characters, animated film dancers, children’s book heroes, zoo celebrities, and documentary film stars. I dream of traveling to the Subantarctic Islands of Australia and New Zealand ; I’m very happy that Tui De Roy, Mark Jones, and Julie Cornthwaite were actually able to make the trip.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 200

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

” I have a scientific background myself, and I guess some experiments on animals may sometimes be justifiable, but others just leave me disgusted, such as this one. Companies selling washing powder might consider using the White-rumped Munia as a nice example for textiles washed with a competitive product: “You call this white?”

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147