Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

They had to cancel a big project that would have showcased polar bears and seals. Lanthier, a veterinarian and walrus researcher who took the helm in Calgary two years ago, says the cancellation of the polar bears exhibit might please some animal-rights extremists, but the reality is a blow to Canada's white bears.

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Polar Bears Zoos Walruses Extremist 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands.

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 256

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump. But one in particular did not even involve contact with an animal. Your last post for 10,000 birds was in 2017. There are so many!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 248

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Some differences in animal behavior are quite striking. at Disney’s Animal Kingdom ( source ). of catching extremely small fish. Some of the temporary fishponds (or flooded fields?) are now being drained – a very attractive moment for the egrets and herons of Chongming. This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway).

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

Type it in and you’ll find articles about a showy South African plant, trailers for two films (one of which was pre-Code and apparently created a sensation), eleven novels, a romance novel series, an animated children’s film, socks, and no less than nine coloring books. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. Smaller and larger animals (if there are any) are taken by other creatures.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 253

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds. The refuge includes coastal marshes, islands, tidal creeks and estuaries of seven north Florida rivers, and is home to a diverse community of plant and animal life.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. Every now and then, I need to cut the world off and clear my mind.

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 181

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

Our small group spent a weekend at the Ferret Research Camp, a cluster of trailers tucked in the middle of a black-tailed prairie dog town and the site, as the name implies, of a black-footed ferret reintroduction program. Like the Rockies, though, this is a harsh beauty, not an ideal climate for the human animal by any means.

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Wildlife Ferrets Montana Prairie Dogs 179

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.

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. A range of animals come to satisfy their need for salt or the soothing effects of the clay along the river banks of the region.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds. Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? Journal of Ornithology 137 (1): 35-51 N. Davies et al.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 204

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. First, it may be argued that only animals who can feel pain are not to be eaten. Scientific research and expertise are needed here. Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) Would not eating these animals be morally permissible?

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