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Can we get a campaign going to shut down SeaQuest

Reddit Animals

The treatment of the animals at the Woodbridge, NJ SeaQuest is horrific. I am posting this here because they had an exhibit of skinny pigs billed as “African naked mole rats.” This was the same for many other of the animals there: potbelly pigs, a sad otter, rabbits, chickens and Bengal cats. The skinny pigs had no enclosures.

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Mammals of Madagascar (Lynx Edicions)

10,000 Birds

When you bird afar and wander wide, you carry a field guide to the birds of the region you are exploring, a pair of binoculars, likely a camera, perhaps a spotting scope and a tripod too, plus clothing, medicines, toiletries, electronics, money and documents… Did you notice the missing item?

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Pale Male is Dead: Long Live Pale Male!

10,000 Birds

Well, Pale Male is documented as having juvenile plumage in November of 1991. The records are amazing and they are documented. They also weren’t living in an incredibly densely populated urban space with poisoned rats to feast upon. How can I say such a thing? That means that he would be turning 24 years old this year.

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For the Birds: Midway Atoll Mouse Eradication and NEPA

10,000 Birds

Midway, which was once a military facility, has long had mice and it once had rats, though they were eradicated in 1996. On March 21, 2018, FWS released a 198-page document entitled “ Midway Seabird Protection Project — Draft Environmental Assessment.” There is also a website with additional information.

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Military Used Pigs in Brain Injury Research

Critter News

For an 11-month period that ended in December, researchers subjected pigs and rats to about 200 blasts, according to Pentagon documents and interviews. car companies used live animals, including pigs, for crash tests until the early 1990s. car companies used live animals, including pigs, for crash tests until the early 1990s.

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Review: The Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson

10,000 Birds

With those caveats in mind, I took up Dale Peterson’s The Moral Lives of Animals with hope and not a little trepidation. The great strength of the book is in the attempt to create a taxonomy of morality that should, in theory, let us talk about animal moral behaviors without directly referencing human ones.

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Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction–A Review

10,000 Birds

Later, there were magic summers on the island with their children, friends, and friends’ children (and the various animals Wingate was always taking in), and the terrible accident that resulted in Anita’s early death. All the while, he is observing, documenting, practically living with the cahows when they return to Bermuda.

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