Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2012

MEXICO CITY – Animal rights activists staged a protest against the sale of pets in Mexico City, urging residents to adopt dogs and other animals instead of buying them. The protest’s goal was to make “society aware” of the fact that animals “need time, love and lots of care,” AnimaNaturalis said.

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AUGUST 18, 2018

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again. According to Audubon, “this big tropical oriole is common in northeastern Mexico, but was not found in our area until 1939. Public lands at risk. Image by NPCA.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2014

There are two Painted Bunting populations, one that breeds along the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Florida and one that breeds in the interior United States and northern Mexico from southeastern New Mexico to western Mississippi. You can see the two disjunct populations mapped in this animated occurrence model from eBird.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There's a stray dog problem in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. But there are animal rights activists in Mexico that will hopefully take notice and try to establish some kind of long-term and humane solution. There are about 70,000 stray dogs roaming San Luis Rio Colorado in northern Mexico. The solution?

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APRIL 23, 2013

Its amazing to me that there are still places on earth where wildlife is blissfully unafraid of humans. Isla Isabel, a picturesque volcanic island situated 15 miles off Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit coast, is just such a place. Destinations boobies endemics frigatebirds Mexico Worldwide Birding Adventures'

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MAY 6, 2016

One might think that thanks to the Internet, all those ridiculous old wild animal myths handed down for generations would finally die a deserved death. Bats just love to fly into human hair!” Two: Humans are diurnal, which means they are normally active during the day. million-year-old early human. Feel free to vent!”.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

These highly intelligent animals should be PERMANENTLY retired and a PERMANENT sanctuary created for them. This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments. Sincerely, Tags: chimpanzees animal research almagordo primates new mexico.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The hourlong film is an unflinching commentary on the overpopulation of stray dogs in Mexico, who even outnumber us humans in some regions. There is a common belief in Mexico, according to his narrative, that sterilizing a male dog will make the dog "gay." Tags: animal abuse mexico dogs.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. The original distribution of the Wild Turkey is not clearly known, but it existed from the Eastern Seaboard of the US nearly to the Rocky Mountains, avoided some of the more open plains in the north, and occurred in central Mexico.

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APRIL 17, 2012

This week marks the 2-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. October 26, 2011 BP is awarded a permit to drill another exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2010

Mosquitoes bite humans and animals with no regard to species, and they bring along a number of illnesses. For humans, mosquitoes can lead to such diseases as Yellow Fever and West Nile Virus among others. For animals, the bugs can cause harmful disease and life threatening conditions. SLE, or Saint Louis Encephalitis.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 10, 2010

Did you know that pet hair clippings (and human hair too) can be used to help clean up oil? Pet Paradise Resort to donate ALL pet hair clippings from 13 resorts to help with oil spill effort in the Gulf of Mexico. Pet Paradise Resort to donate ALL pet hair clippings originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on May 10, 2010.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. I’ve really been wracking my brain because for me releasing is very traumatic,” said Cara Petricca, with Bluebird Farm Animal Sanctuary in Cheshire, MA.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics.

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APRIL 28, 2024

Warblers, thrushes, buntings, and other migrants move across the Gulf of Mexico in an extremely stressful, marathon flight from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Gulf Coast of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida before spreading throughout the flyways and heading north.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In this morning's New York Times editorial " There Is No 'Humane' Execution ," we have an imperfect yet nevertheless baby step toward acknowledgment of the HumaneMyth. But that doesn't mean we should work toward abolishing the death penalty first, and then move to the case of animals.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Elizabeth Bradfield’s “Buried Birds” muses on seabirds as a way of understanding feelings of difference, giving one of the book’s finest quotes: “We resonate with certain animals, I believe, because they are physical embodiment of an answer we are seeking. Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ. Press, 2020, 304p.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

You know, because these birds are astonishingly rare and the general public are, while often well meaning, generally rather hopeless and prone to bringing all kinds of problems with them, such as accidentally introducing exotic species or standing there and prodding a wild animal in the belief this is an acceptable thing to do.

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MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. I am inclined to believe so.

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