Critter News

JANUARY 19, 2009

They castrate piglets in Europe for sanitary purposes (to avoid taint in the meat), but the methods are not terribly humane. Tags: europe pigs farm animal welfare.

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APRIL 26, 2009

Thanks to Animal Rights Person for the heads up on this. Tags: canada norway europe trade seals. As of last Friday. * EU nations agree to ban on seal products * Ban would lead to trade clash with Norway and Canada * Final approvals seen as a formality.

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MARCH 2, 2024

The Oostvaardersplassen were supposed to be industrial land but by the time the engineers showed up with their shovels the place had transformed into the best wetland in northern Europe. The grazers are glorified farm animals, but they have been labelled by some very irresponsible people as “wild”. It is wild and very beautiful.

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JUNE 15, 2023

Late April / early May is the best birding season in the south of Europe and wherever you go, you will have 50% to 100% more species than in any other season. In Africa, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat (making animals lazy and people drowsy). Yes, animals are guaranteed some time free of the camera-snapping crowds.

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MARCH 10, 2022

Late April / early May is the best birding season in the south of Europe and wherever you go, you will have 50% to 100% more species than in any other season. In Africa, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat (making animals lazy and people drowsy). Yes, animals are guaranteed some time free of the camera-snapping crowds.

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MAY 27, 2021

Help identify the birds and animals in your yard with sound detection and analysis. By the time the Terra ships we expect the automated ID to work very well in North America and Northern Mexico, and we will expand it throughout the Americas, the UK and Europe, and then across the globe.” ” Wow, right?

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. While the Scandinavian and European Russian population of bears is estimated to about 38,000 animals, the remaining populations are few and far between in the Iberian (15 + 200 ind.) and Apennine peninsulas (30 + 50 ind.).

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Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2010

It's bad enough having to deal with the welfare of normal farm animals, but what about the welfare of cloned animals? Concerns surround the ethics of the process, the welfare of the animals and a lack of research on food safety. Tags: europe cloning farm animal welfare. From the Daily Mail.

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MARCH 24, 2023

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Hi, I need to identify an animal I saw today. btw I'm from Czech republic, so middle Europe submitted by /u/roziik [link] [comments] I'm not sure about that. btw I'm from Czech republic, so middle Europe submitted by /u/roziik [link] [comments] I'm not sure about that.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

submitted by /u/Zee2A [link] [comments].

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MAY 21, 2020

It can still be an entirely opposite end of a continent, but – if you are residing in Europe – the flight can be as short as one (from Germany) to two hours (from UK). I am talking of the very heart of the Balkans and the final birding frontier of Europe: Serbia. Deliblato Sands & Labudovo okno.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Is there a different culture regarding animals in Europe? Are animal rights organizations more effective? At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing.

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Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

Around 12 million animals are used each year in the European Union (EU) for research purposes. This became clear from a report addressed at the European Parliament (EP) session on May 5–7, which seeks to vote on a directive concerning animal research. I really hope this passes.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Here go those moments of curiosity, in no particular order: Europe: And so, I was driving from Greece to Serbia… in central FYRO Macedonia, two birds were circling not far from the motorway… black and white… perhaps White Storks on migration? Europe: The sun is scorching the area, and the birds are nowhere to be seen.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The inspectors found nothing wrong, but at least they responded to the issues raised by Animal Angels, based in Germany. My 2010 resolution is to try and track animal rights issues in the homelands of Spain and Portugal. Tags: europe portugal farm animal welfare.

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Critter News

MAY 18, 2009

Interesting article on animal testing and cosmetics in Japan. Tags: animal testing europe cosmetics Japan. They still have a lot of work to do in the pursuit of alternatives. They also need the will to change.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

My parents are in England, should I be worried about the conflict on the other side of Europe in the Ukraine?” The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people. .” I’ll sometimes add “It’s in West Africa, I’ll be in South Africa. ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment.

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Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2020

submitted by /u/SawOnGam [link] [comments].

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JUNE 3, 2021

Driving slowly along the track towards the levee separating this area from the Danube backwaters, a largish marten-like animal once ran across the track. Once I observed a man walking his two small dogs here, passing by a perched White-tailed Eagle but looking down at grass and not noticing the largest raptor in Europe at all.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book. Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I really believe the more people learn about what research animals go through, the more common decency becomes a factor. But how many animal research supporters (non-scientists) actually step into a room and observe an experiment? How many of them actually see these animals in the labs? It upsets them.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 2, 2021

submitted by /u/Nohan07 [link] [comments].

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AUGUST 18, 2023

Europe submitted by /u/Fuzzy_Diet6876 [link] [comments] Found this weird skull.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

And here in Europe, they are the real deal, an indigenous species and not domesticated animals gone wild. These handsome finches breed in the far north of Europe and come here for the winter only. I think all were males, at last two huge ones certainly were. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a.

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JUNE 29, 2013

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Between finishing one graduate program and begining another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe. Of course, birding was on the itinerary! Of course, birding was on the itinerary!

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JUNE 29, 2016

And for wild pheasants ( Common , in Europe; or Ring-necked , stateside), a bigger group may actually present an existential danger. Newly published research in the journal Animal Behaviour suggests an ideal harem size for pheasants of 2.7 But this breeding and social arrangement has its risks. female birds for every male.

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MAY 18, 2023

It belongs to the same species as those in Europe, but a smaller subspecies ( Sus scrofa davidi ). Occasionally we go so quickly that we may be posing a danger for jay-walking animals… …and then, for no obvious reason, we suddenly stop! Maybe his reputation is not without a foundation?

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The mini-pig, darling of celebrities’ handbags, may have had its bacon Sunday after the EU earmarked it as the laboratory test animal of the future. Tags: europe animal research mini-pigs pigs.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The moving of Europe's biggest military exercise to the outer Moray Firth poses a threat to bottlenose dolphins, conservations have claimed. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) said noise from warships' sonar could harm the animals. Tags: dolphin europe sonar military. According to the BBC.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. This is where they got their name. According to R.D.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Russia does have its own seal hunt, but apparently they banned killings of animals under one year old. I don't see what they get out of it, unless they want to impress Europe, which has already banned seal products. Excerpted from the Globe and Mail.

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Critter News

JANUARY 16, 2011

In order to offset the loss of the seal product market in Europe, Canada has made a deal with China. Although 40 Chinese animal rights groups have protested, they don't really have any political or financial clout to change anything. I'm not surprised. China as a whole still doesn't have a national conscience about these issues.

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JULY 9, 2015

One Nilgai – the largest of Asian antelopes and a few Sambar deer later, we hit a jackpot: there is one jackal-like animal sitting among the dry leaves! Well, one reason might be – this animal is not only endangered, but even rarer than the Tiger! (Nitin will stay for a few more days and get his close-ups of Tigers.)

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JANUARY 17, 2020

For starters, the official national animal is the unicorn, a fairy-tale beast chosen by Scottish royalty in the Middle Ages for its reputation as the natural enemy of the lion, the adopted mascot of English kings. Pair of Golden Eagles (1899) by Scottish painter Archibald Thornburn (1860-1935).

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APRIL 3, 2023

They are described as “larger and more powerful than the Common Blackbird of Europe” – I can imagine some Chinese nationalists rejoicing that “my blackbird can beat your blackbird” … According to Wikipedia, the distribution of the Red-billed Leiothrix stretches over India, Bhutan, Nepal, Burma, and parts of Tibet.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Europe, let alone Italy, doesn’t have bluebirds.). The only living creature given “national” status by Italy is the Italian Wolf , which is apparently their national animal. Some places on the web claim that the national bird of Italy is the “bluebird” but this is so untrue that it does not make sense.

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