Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2009

I' m concerned about Maple Farm Sanctuary , whose founders are two of the seven subjects in our new film , and I was wondering if you'd be willing to reach out through your blog to let people know that the sanctuary is in a financial tight spot right now. The sanctuary runs on a very modest budget of approximately $55,000 year.

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Farm Sanctuary Sanctuary Farming Goats 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

When there are no animals around to sit on, Cattle Egrets sometimes sit on trees, even though they frequently b h about the trees’ low speed and inability to stir up insects. I had also not seen any Common Kingfisher for more than 2 months, a situation that is generally being frowned upon by human rights lawyers.

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

To many people, the number of animal fatalities at the Calgary Zoo in newer years seemed very high. A huge spiral-horned goat got trapped in a toy rope and choked. It reported that human error surrounded more deaths than at any other zoo and forced immediate plans be taken to make sure of the animals’ safety.

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Zoos Animal Abuse Bats Goats 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The storytellers are (with two exceptions) people whose livelihoods came from using animals. And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. Perhaps the best feature of the film is the various voices telling a similar story.

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Farm Sanctuary Slaughter Slaughtered Speciesism 100

Animal Person

MARCH 11, 2010

William Horden's, " The Sacred Space of the Shared Heart " is exactly the type of piece I am talking about when I express frustration over "spiritual" people who kill nonhuman animals or who have them killed for a meal. "My The big change, of course, was my realizing that I didn't feel any remorse for having to eat animals and plants to live.

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Killing Vegan Buffalo Goats 100

Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! Let me know if you hear the show!

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Puerto Rico Responsible Policies Meat Industry Humane Treatment 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2013

I am driving through mostly bare, rocky ground, kept that way by herds of domestic goats, which also cross the road as they like. Already having had way too close encounters with domestic animals, that habit is something I particularly dislike – especially before the first morning coffee!

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Greece Serbia Europe Goats 206

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Heading south on a good surfaced road, we made slow progress through the herds of cattle, donkeys and goats that thronged the highway, until we finally reached the land of the Konso. The Hamar women are immediately identifiable by their brick red hair braids, beautiful beaded jewelry and animal skin clothes designed to imitate gazelles.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 241

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Whenever one thinks about Yellowstone, the first though for the majority of folks is probably the animals. The Rocky Mountain Goats were the same thing, saw them, got a shot, but from 800 yards away, it really isn’t much to write home about. Here are the rest of the animals that we did see.

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Wyoming Wolves Grizzly Bear Mountain Goats 105

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. And if we keep exploring the undelved nooks and crannies of our globe, we’re sure to make up the difference, right? How many have we lost, have we never even known? What a horror! What a disaster! What a wrong!

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Marsupials Costa Rica Elephants Cuba 168

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Nestled right in the middle of Europe, we have a little bit of everything, a nice cross section of Europe’s avifauna. It is not unusual to drive by a farm building and see a bunch of Greater Rheas on the farm’s fenced-in pasture next to sheep or goats. Germany is underrated as a birding destination.

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Germany Birds 2000 South America 245

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

In Africa, our bee-eaters occur from the southern tip of the continent right through to the far north, occupying an incredible range of habitats and niches, from the interior of the deepest rainforests of the Congo to the arid steppes of the Sahel. European Bee-eaters can be found through-out Africa at the right time of year.

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Africa South Africa Gabon Uganda 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see. When the animal recovers from the anesthetic, it is given access to a mirror. Back to real birds.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 185