10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It involves plate tectonics; and the separation of North America from South America and their eventual reconnection; and the end of the Cretaceous Era thanks to a big asteroid, and the movements of animals, including humans, in response to all of those things. With abundant roadkill (1.3

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Guyana South America Washington DC 247

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Bird guide Bella remarked that the haircut of this Tufted Deer “looks stupid” Always good to travel with a highly qualified expert for valuable scientific comments. Due to massive use of Lightroom on my side, you can even see some of the red color of the animal. Among all mammals, I think I like monkeys the least.

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Birds Pandas Mammals China 213

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2014

Humans have not helped. Letting cattle trample upon the riverbanks, or promoting game animals and eliminating predators until the populations of elk and deer munch the stream-sides bare, also cut back on the replacement rate of the big trees.

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Montana Cattle Deer Humane 166

Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

Twice in the past 24 hours (once here and once on Stephanie's blog, in the comments )I have come across the following statement: "[insert animal here] are safe from predators, get fed regularly, and are better off on farms than if they were in 'the wild.'" The animals on farms are created for the sole purpose of human consumption.

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Gazelles Slaughter Slaughtered Deer 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. What Do Wild Animals Do in a Wildfire? This is about 35 miles West of my home. over the last 30 years.

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Wildlife Sacramento Shelters Science 103

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

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. Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. by Marc Bekoff.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us (Richard O. I am a human being, so I am entitled to, and I do, say that the starling is an ugly bird. . • The Aliens Among Us: How Invasive Species Are Transforming the Planet – and Ourselves (Leslie Anthony, Yale). •

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Humane Species North America Sparrows 104

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. In many ways, that is exactly what happened. First of all they wanted useful species.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

It is technically correct, and recently fashionable, to insist that any living animal is a member of the larger group that contains it phylogenetically, i.e., ancestrally, with that group often named after the known animal that roots the tree. So, for example, humans are apes. Whales are cows. And smaller. And smaller.

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Camels Whales Whaling Apes 201

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

To the Editor: In “ Hunting Deer With My Flintlock ” (Op-Ed, Dec. 26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. Animals suffer when killed.

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New York Times New York Mountain Lions Deer 40

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 29, 2009

As the name suggests, they rescue rabbits, but they also rescue other small animals like ferrets, and other small rodents. To accommodate the sanctuary rabbits, our adoption center and our compassionate human visitors, Rabbit Meadows plans to build a series of small cottage-like structures among the picturesque fir trees on its grounds.

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Rabbits Rescue Rabbit Rescue Ferrets 100

Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

Is what he did consciously to his pitbulls that much worse than what we do unconsciously to animals every day? Some of us forget that dogs are mere animals, and that animal mistreatment is as American as Apple iPods. Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. None of us is pure. I think we have it backward.

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Michael Vick Guinea Pigs Animal Cruelty Animal Abuse 100

Animal Person

JUNE 26, 2009

Felony animal cruelty is the cruel killing of an animal, and he is also being charges with 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body.) The four counts of burglary he is being charged with carry a heftier sentence than the animal killing. The outrage I've been seeing and hearing is typical, as we like cats.

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Cats Dissection Cougars Pigs 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but humans are actually kind of bad examples of mammals, so perhaps we’ll use a well studied hoofed animal instead. Thus, the two types of animals have very different courtship patterns.

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Mammals Eggs Abandon Abandoning 165

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

Considering the fact that her lake lies conveniently close to the Moharli Gate, I suppose Telia would be the biggest earner of all the animals of Tadoba. In other words, in the last century we lost 97% of these animals and about 40% of their former range (source: WWF).

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Tigers India Killing 2012 248

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Leucism “is a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in animals and humans.&# Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 152

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

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. So the human equivalent of frog in a bowl might be. So assaying exploratory tendency in humans. Humans can probably just find their own little place to thrive.

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Cats 2011 Costa Rica Deer 149

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

There are are presently thought to be five species of kiwi with a possible sixth extinct species, all of which have suffered varying degrees of range contraction since the arrival of humans. The Bay of Islands is a very popular area for tourists, both those looking for natural history and for human history. Wicked, right?

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New Zealand 2011 Deer New York 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. The trip was probably reasonably well planned and it would have been known to these travelers that game birds, as well as deer and fish, were abundant in the region they were traveling to. As the earliest evidence of M. 78(1):61–78.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges. Journal of Ornithology 137 (1): 35-51 N. Davies et al. 1995 The polygynandrous mating system of the alpine accentor, Prunella collaris. Ecological causes and reproductive conflicts. Wicked, right?

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 215

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics. Wicked, right?

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

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. 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.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 255

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2007

14): To the animals being slaughtered, it does not matter whether their killers are local or whether they will be eaten or displayed on a wall. It’s time to stop pandering to hunters and the gun lobby and turn to humane measures to control the deer population and outlaw this barbaric pastime. Their suffering is the same.

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New York Times New York Compassion Slaughter 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 1, 2008

The preciousness of individual deer, as of any other specimen, is inversely proportional to the population of the species. As omnivores, the population of human beings should, perhaps, be roughly twice that of bears, allowing for differences of size.

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Animal Liberation Morals Ethics Deer 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009? I am inclined to believe so.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 250

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,

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New York Times New York Meat San Antonio 40

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

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. Peters Paso Robles, Calif.,

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New York Times New York 2008 Factory Farm 40