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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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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. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.”

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Thought experiment

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If you put some animals (both wild and domestic) on an island and left them there to roam free and we come back after a few years who would survive. Cats would be the next. They are much more independent and still behave similarly to wild cats they are still pets and rely on humans to survive. Horses live in groups.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

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eagles and vultures ) so we need to pay attention. How many birds to cats kill in the United States? A recent meta study ( The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States ) that applied strict inclusion criteria and some fancy statistics estimates that 2.4 How many birds are killed in building strikes?

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

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Now this, might not sound like anything of particular ground-breaking significance, but in the context of animal personality research, it is a fairly big thing. Many robins, eagles and finches later, he ended up at university studying various biology things and wrote a thesis on vertebrate biogeography in southern African forests.

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In Defense of Wildlife Rehabilitation

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Once we’ve established that it’s a Golden Eagle, I ask the ten-million dollar question. Somebody shot an eagle?” The outdoor cat owner who brings a rehabber a shredded songbird may learn not to let their cat out. The kids’ eyes widen. Hands raise and wave. You see all those little round circles? It’s buckshot,” I say.

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Collective Arts: Stranger than Fiction

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The packaging artwork has changed – last year it was a fluid, thickly-textured portrait of a Eurasian Eagle-Owl ( Bubo bubo ) – but I think the recipe has remained the same. The artwork of this edition is by Jenny Keith – an Edmonton, Alberta-based artist with a penchant for depicting animals and natural curiosities.

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Star-Powered Auction for Animals!

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Pet lovers will be seeing stars November 5 – 15 at the Celebrity Experience and Entertainment Memorabilia Auction , launched online to support Precious Paws , a non-profit animal rescue organization based in Encino, Calif. I can see what the support and donations do for the animals first hand. Autographed acoustic guitar by The Eagles.