10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

It is much stranger and illustrative of the ways of evolution to point out that whales are a form of “hoofed animal&# (unlikely but true). Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world. But overall, it’s not common if you exclude bird and bats, the two main flying vertebrate groups.

Birds 271

Birds Primates Marsupials Whales 271

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”

Animal Rights 267

Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 267

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

One night three great fruit bats flew over the face of the moon. But Heinrich uses the term to mean (probably) that a strange female has laid her egg in a nest she did not make – a la the cowbird or cuckoo. I saw it because I looked down. I saw it because I looked up.”

Eggs 131

Eggs Emotional Bats 2014 131

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

He had the habit of asking very similar question about the animals featured in his zoology lectures, including basic questions like how big they are, what limits physiology puts on their geographic range, etc. For instance, among animals, booby and noddy combined probably represents the majority of the biomass of the somewhat unusual St.

Mammals 179

Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 179