10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them. because of collisions with vehicles.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The explanation for these differing attitudes toward life (and much, much else) has to do with the aforementioned biotic interchange — what one paleontologist, as quoted by Meiburg, called “one of the most extraordinary events in the whole history of life.”. With abundant roadkill (1.3

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Lucky him, right? Though he ended up dead anyway.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

I recently got an email from the Animal Legal Defense Fund. They are pioneering legislation in California to make public animal abuse registries. The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) today announced an effort aimed at creating public registries in each state of anyone convicted of felony animal abuse. COTATI, CALIF. –

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

Yesterday, regarding being a minority within a minority , mikey commented (among other things): While I am fairly new subscriber to this blog, therefore not knowing your particular stance, I've often felt like a minority within a minority for my stance on animal birth control. And this is one of them. But who cares about me?

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 19, 2014

Studies show that as many as 48% of domestic violence victims stay in abusive situations out of fear of what would happen if they left their pets behind, and more than 70% of pet owners who enter shelter report that the abuser has threatened, injured, or killed family pets.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

The only type of “white doves” capable of surviving an event release are white racing pigeons, technically known as “ Rock Doves ” (Columba livia). Animals aren’t metaphors for people or their plans,” says Monte Merrick, a rehabber in California. Rehabbers can be a touchy group, and for good reason. Why do this?”.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2013

Now, I presume that not all the readers of this blog post will be familiar with the reasons behind the Germans’ leaving Germany for a life in the northern Sahel zone, so I’ll quickly summarize the main events: The winter of 2012/2013 has been the darkest winter ever, since daily sunlight hours were recorded.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 31, 2010

Kitten Rescue is a wonderful animal rescue organization! Founded in 1997, it has become one of the largest animal rescue groups in Los Angeles. Kitten Rescue’s goal is to help Los Angeles become a no-kill city. Every year they host a great event to help raise the funds that they need to continue their rescue efforts.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Casualties surrounding migration were limited to natural events such as weather – not wind generators, poisoned food and water from industry, farm run-off, or loss of traditional stopover areas due to habitat destruction. Will all rescued animals survive to have a happy ending? Will the population of the species be affected?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of Feral Cat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. But about two-thirds of the people speaking supported the new measure, including Dan Niziolek, director of Minneapolis Animal Care and Control. This got me wondering what other cities were doing.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The seven-night television event features visually stunning and powerfully resonant stories of nature’s fiercest felines! A blood feud erupts when scavenging hyenas move in on the kill. Beyond the blood and gore lies a stark reality: Big cats kill to live and live to kill. Big Cat Week starts tonight on Nat Geo WILD!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

And the two species were not inclined to get on, by which I mean that Lions will kill other large predators including Painted Wolves. Pippa called the park ranger in charge of animals. It’s a natural event, part of the natural “Circle of Life” as Disney might have it. Her concern was well founded.

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Animal Person

MARCH 20, 2010

It's not like these people care about animals. Their kids are probably gonna be petting the animals they're eating and they might not even know it." Here 's a factsheet about petting zoos, which at least in Florida have been a public health threat , to say nothing of the exploitation and suffering of the animals.)

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. All the friends of my youth were radical, righteous, intense.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

Major extinction events that are geologically instantaneous have been followed by periods of time with reduction of species or unstable habitats that last for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. We might expect that as the earth warms, biomes or regionally defined habitats will move north, and with them, their plants and animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 22, 2011

Michael Vick, whose unearthed gambling operation was found to not only force dogs to fight, but also kill under-performing dogs in twisted ways, is only one story in a mass of untold stories. It may feel threatened, and animals that feel threatened instinctually protect themselves. Have the dog scanned for a microchip.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2019

The horse landed on the young duchess, breaking her back but not killing her outright. Her father Charles the Bold had been killed only five years earlier at the Battle of Nancy in 1477. The falcon hunt took place in the quiet, picturesque Flemish countryside south of Bruges, on the property of Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

. “To be this lengthy and geographically widespread, I think is kind of unprecedented,” Phillip Johnson, executive director of the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, told the Salem Statesman Journal ([link] “It’s an interesting and somewhat mysterious event.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The first was Lewis Binford, who noted, correctly, that if you look at actual animal bones from actual archaeological sites, you could not objectively see clear evidence that would distinguish hunting from scavenging, and if you compared these “food remains” to hyena food remains, they looked roughly the same. Photo by Mikebaird.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 30, 2008

The Michael Vick case shed light on the disgrace of those who cause dogs to fight each other, an event often accompanied by drug sales and prostitution. The animals are forced to fight through beatings, starvation, being thrown at each other, being made to attack smaller animals thrown at them, and worse.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This has been looked at in other studies for ectotherms (the most obvious sorts of animals to be affected since they get their heat from ambient conditions) and elderly humans. In any event, brood size matters, so in the experiment I’m talking about here, it was manipulated by the researchers.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds. The refuge includes coastal marshes, islands, tidal creeks and estuaries of seven north Florida rivers, and is home to a diverse community of plant and animal life.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. .” (HBW). A slightly more surprising threat for the vultures comes from elephants. .”

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And, Fuller should know; he has spent his career producing books about extinct birds and mammals, including the recent Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, from his home in England. Fuller is also a photographer, but his web page notes that he seldom takes photographs of birds or animals.).

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2014

NEW JERSEY – Animal shelters are full, they have no space, they often have no money, and they have a small amount of dedicated volunteers. Many of these boarding animals are forgotten. There is an estimated 3-4million pets euthanized each year in US animal shelters. That’s 10,000 per day on average. Look at tail wag.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”. How many have we lost, have we never even known? Some of these giants were lost surprisingly recently – the last mammoths around 1700 BC. Comebackers. 314 U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2024

In his book Tales of a Tribe , author Mark Cocker describes an unfortunate event befalling a friend. He subsequently leaves for Peru and gets kidnapped and killed by Sendero Luminoso – the local brand of Maoists. It has all Big Five animals and a whole lot of other grumpy mammals. But let’s see what happened.

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