Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

Vamsee Juluri, Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, takes me back to graduate school when he writes of the importance of the stories we tell ourselves in " Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering." They certainly depict cruelty to animals, right? What do you think?

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San Francisco Cruelty Vivisection Open Rescue 100

Animal Person

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Charles is looking down on me, Charles' soul is running, Charles is with Lars Axl Fokker (Emily's son, to whom she passed her Feline Infectious Peritonitis, which he suffered from before we euthanized him nearly a decade ago). Some speak of a collective consciousness, and others speak of reincarnation.

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Greyhounds Adoptable Suffering Collecting 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 6, 2012

Once again, Cesar Millan works with dogs and their owners to help dogs suffering from phobias and obsessions! After Dog Whisperer, Philly Undercover, the new six-part series in which the PSPCA’s undercover police team works to eliminate dogfighting and protect all animals from abuse and neglect, premieres. ET/PT (sneak preview).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For good measure, some animals in the near vicinity were also named after him, such as Raffles’s Malkoha. In the “other” section of this post covering those unfortunate animals that are not birds, we have a tarsier. And some other animals.

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 219

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

As is most often the case, lowland rainforest habitats suffered the most with an almost complete loss of this habitat. Regardless, these remaining pockets of Atlantic Rainforest harbor an incredibly diverse and often highly endangered collection of bird species with well over a 100 regional endemics.

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Brazil California Condor 2013 Collecting 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

.’s Birds of New Guinea notes that the species is often seen moving in “high-flying flocks,” and Coates and Bishop’s Bird of Wallacea declares, “this species has suffered greatly from human predation and is now generally scarce to very rare.” A new paper this year ( Heupink et al.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

For millenia, many of the world’s collective cultures have had an exceptionally strong anthropocentric bias when looking at the value of life. Because its extremely difficult to conclusively demonstrate what any nonhuman animal is thinking or feeling, this lack (failure?) But I digress.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Of course, less suffering is always better than more, but when you are taking someone's life, I'm pretty sure it's the life-taking that's most important to them. But that doesn't mean we should work toward abolishing the death penalty first, and then move to the case of animals. Where's the moral objection on behalf of cows?

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Humane District of Columbia Cows Morals 100

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. It truly is horrific and despicable to treat animals so badly. All that follows from that assumption is that it is morally permissible to eat some meat.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2024

Inside the Band-e-Amir National Park, I added a horrible shot of a Horned Lark to my bird photo collection. At this point, we say goodbye to all readers only interested in birds, as the post will now just turn into a photo collection covering a two-day trip from Kabul to Bamiyan and back.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Based on whatever data she collected, she’d alter her course and continue her search. As I skulked around my own house, all I could picture was Emily tearing Kermie limb from limb, then suffering a grisly death from ingesting the poison that ran through Kermie’s froggy veins.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see. Nest building: a good activity for a rainy day.

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