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. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Empathy Among Elephants. by Marc Bekoff.

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Critter News

JANUARY 1, 2010

Each one of the sleek, whiskered sea lions recovering at the Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro has its own story. Some of the damage was caused by humans who shot, clubbed or threw so-called seal bombs at the mammals. Tags: marine animals seals sea lions. From the Contra Costa Times.

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Seals Sea Lions Lions Wounded 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2015

Bigger than the African Buffalo or the American Bison, it is the largest land animal after the Elephant, Rhino, the Hippopotamus and the Giraffe. burning bright, In the forests of the night… Trips India Mammals' Huge black head with a white hat, strong horns… slowly disappear in the thickets. In the next post: Tyger!

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Tigers Boars India Chickens 243

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Photos courtesy of Mosetlha Bush Camp A dusty-red road leads me through Marico bushveld deeper into the 750 square kilometers large wilderness of the Madikwe Game Reserve – the 4th largest reserve in South Africa, home to 350 bird and 66 mammal species, some 4 hours’ drive from Johannesburg. The others follow, some dozen animals in all.

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South Africa Africa Game Elephants 206

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

People also say that hyraxes are elephants, but they are so distant in their relationship that it is little different than saying that deer are a type of pronghorn antelope. It is much stranger and illustrative of the ways of evolution to point out that whales are a form of “hoofed animal&# (unlikely but true).

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Birds Marsupials Primates Whales 266

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The Cattle Egret is native to Africa, where it is a familiar sight among herds of large mammals. They feed on insects stirred up by the herds, at times sitting on the animal itself picking off ticks and other insects. I’d like to introduce you to a diminutive heron, the Cattle Egret Bubuclus ibis.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 169

Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

" Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals ," By Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, is the most recent (for me) book that debunks myths about the differences between human and nonhuman animals. The authors make a distinction between narrative ethology and "'animal stories' that proliferate on the Web.

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Morals Mammals Elephants Ethics 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. And the Mammals. Enough History – Back to the Future. Back to the Future – the Case for Protection.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

I’ll never forget my introduction to the mammals of Kruger National Park, South Africa. We –participants of the ABA South Africa Safari—were on a small plane when one Lori Conrad looked out the window and screamed, “There are elephants down there!” This means you need to pack a mammal guide in addition to your bird guide.

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Rhinos Animal Mammals White Rhinos 230

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

A dusty-red road leads me through Marico bushveld deeper into the 750 square kilometers large wilderness of the Madikwe Game Reserve – the 4th largest reserve in South Africa, home to 350 bird and 66 mammal species, some 4 hours’ drive from Johannesburg. The others follow, some dozen animals in all. Sniffing us.

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 184

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2013

Rather, my trip to the American Museum of Natural History last week was enlivened, however slightly, by spotting a Rock Pigeon perched on top of the elephants in the Hall of African Mammals, safely out of the elements and unexposed to Central Park’s hawks. But in the end, being dead doesn’t protect an animal from mortality.

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Elephants Gorillas Buffalo Mammals 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2016

In some cases someone was blown away by the scenery and thought “this needs saving” In some cases someone thought “there seems to be a lot of animals here, let’s keep things that way” Still others happen because no one had done anything with the land yet and no one wanted the land anyway. But they are very cute!

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South Africa Leopards Giraffes Africa 138

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whaling 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

These beaters usually take the form of grazing herds of game and domestic animals, and large flocks of carmine bee-eaters may gather overhead. They also use various creatures as convenient mobile perches from which to swoop off, snatching insects flushed by their ride.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

The highlight is the river, and each morning and evening boats work their way up and down the rivers with tourists looking for Asian Elephants , Bornean Orangutans , Proboscis Monkeys , Saltwater Crocodiles and other exciting animals. Never did see an elephant though). Think of the Jungle Ride at Disney.

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Bats Birds Elephants Badgers 179

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The interests of those working for conservation and those working for animal rights and animal welfare don’t always perfectly align like you might think they do. It also protects hundreds of species of birds and mammals, and thousands of plants, and everything else you need in a functional ecosystem.

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