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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

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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Think Bush Is a Pro-Animal Environmentalist? Think Again!

Animal Ethics

Why does the Bush administration think that it is wrong for the Japanese to kill whales but permissible for the U.S. 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? Navy to do so?

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 4)

10,000 Birds

“A reading of recent research shows that Australian birds are more likely than most to eat sweet foods, live in complex societies, lead long lives, attack other birds, and be intelligent and loud.” ” (Tim Low, “Where Song Began”). While this may sound attractive at first, it also covers highly immoral behavior.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute.

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Did humans kill off one of the last dinosaurs, er, giant birds?

10,000 Birds

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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Animal Testing Debate Continues in New South Wales

Critter News

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.