10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Even though this referred to a period after the supposed “scavenging” phase, it lent support to the idea of a stepwise evolution of the ability to hunt.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

Humans are not always bad for birds, only about 95% of the time. Humans often use a similar concept, for example, by excluding US Supreme Court Judges from following pesky rules regarding the declaration of gifts. Biologists – or as Ze Frank would say, the Science Hippies – call this ecological segregation (e.g.,

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So, they cleverly would hijack unpopular animals or people as placeholders for the devil and then swear to their heart’s delight. Being referred to as a raven parent is grim, because this is a rather strong insult paired with a damning judgement of your parental qualities. To anyone else, a Blume is a flower and a tail is a tail.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. In other words, you can’t say something like, “humans, gorillas, chimps, and bonobos are all in the same family and equally related to each other.” For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling it a “Fierce-looking, large songbird” As are humans, this species is fairly urbanized – it “sometimes enters urban areas to roost, e.g. in Singapore” (HBW). Plus hopefully, you will be arrested for mistreating animals.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” The Amur Leopard ( Panthera pardus orientalis – above) is just one majestic animal on the Critically Endangered (CR) list with less than 100 individuals in the wild due to hunting for its fur.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For good measure, some animals in the near vicinity were also named after him, such as Raffles’s Malkoha. In the “other” section of this post covering those unfortunate animals that are not birds, we have a tarsier. And some other animals. It deserves a lot better than being caught and locked in a cage.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. 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.

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Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable.

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Reddit Animals

JANUARY 5, 2024

However, over time, the term evolved to refer to how they were hunted—they were considered “the right whales to hunt.” However, other human activities—like fishing and shipping—are still killing these whales. Before whaling began, estimates suggest there were 9,000 to 21,000 North Atlantic right whales.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Did you see that Change.org now has an Animal Welfare page? I think this is fabulous because Stephanie Ernst (the AW blogger is Stephanie Feldstein, so be careful referring to "Stephanie," or to the blogger with the pit bull!) is clearly someone who advocates for animal rights.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 16, 2023

One of their most unique qualities is their self-awareness, which is a sign of higher cognitive abilities that are usually reserved for humans and a few other species. Self-awareness refers to the ability to recognize oneself in a mirror or another reflective surface, and it's considered a sign of higher cognitive abilities.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture."

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Humans, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. I have to say that the pattern suits the buntings much better than humans, though, and hopefully, it is also more pleasant for them to wear. Japanese T**s have their own claim to fame – they are the first wild animal species with experimental evidence for compositional syntax.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. When talking about bird sizes, the frame of reference is everything – for eBird, the Green-backed Tit is a “small songbird” while for the HBW it is a “large … tit” Why oh why do abstracts so often start with totally meaningless sentences? .

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2022

If dinosaurs were the original punks of the animal kingdom, this Eurasian Hoopoe is their proud descendant (Chongming Island). Whenever I find a good spot to see Reed Parrotbill at Nanhui, I can be pretty sure that there will be some human activity within the next three months that will destroy this site. Maybe even for half a year.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

” The website www.jwcpheasants.com seems to endorse polygamy for this species despite this being illegal in the USA for other animals such as humans. The site states that in captivity, “two hens can be paired with one male.”

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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). Other – sadly rather common – reasons are habitat loss due to agricultural expansion and the use of some veterinary drugs.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

But the cost of changing the installed hardware base and the human capital invested in QWERTY effectively precludes those alternatives. When we refer to an American Robin , we all immediately know the precise species in question. For example, the standard QWERTY keyboard is arguably inefficient and there are likely better alternatives.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P. By the way, and for point of reference) there are some 47 million active American birders. There is evidence that toxoplasma leads, in humans, to an elevated risk of mental illness and depression.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I remember a cartoon showing the prehistoric Earth as a vast forest with tiny villages fenced-off due to dangerous animals, and the today’s Earth as a wasteland, with a few tiny forests remaining, fenced-off due to abominable humans. In a world we made. In other destinations, you may prefer a car with a driver (e.g.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Broadly, the term may refer to a variety of alpine tundra ecosystems. What’s more, they host quite a number of endemics, both animal and plant. The whole landscape seemed like something from a Jules Verne novel with weird-looking plants and strange creatures never gazed upon by human eyes.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

This often applies in animal behavior and ecology, and this often comes about in relation to predator pressure. For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 5, 2011

We always love reading books about animals, and from time to time we get to review new books to share with our readers! This book explores the special connection and bond between humans and dogs. It’s a very interesting read, and anyone who has had a love of dogs, or any other animal for that matter, will enjoy this book.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare."

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. When going to Australia, one of the two birds I wanted to see most was the Tawny Frogmouth. They just sit and pretend not to be there to avoid interaction.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

The “Rise and rise again” line from the Robin Hood movie reverses the order of the animals, of course, but March has long been said to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb, weather-wise. I wonder if all that could fit on a beer can? “Is that some kind of Eastern thing?

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Critter News

JUNE 12, 2010

This is a continuation of an earlier post about why I question animal testing. But universities and scientists are not always there working for pure learning or the improvement of humanity. Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research. There may be a business component there as well.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I'm going to refer to it as just one from now on) is very brave and runs right across the floor when I'm watching TV. I know it's generally accepted it's a bad idea to try to make a wild animal a pet but given he's not stressed by me I think he'd prefer the cage to death if he could choose.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. What Do Wild Animals Do in a Wildfire? References: 1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2010

As someone who's about to have a one-year old in her life, I was particularly aware of the part animals play in the lives of the children and how animals are talked about. Here 's the book, and in the preview you can see that in the beginning when the gorilla being described is male he is referred to as "he." So far so good.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

The first edition, A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics , was published in 1989. This is a book about patterns and relationships, not a strictly partitioned reference book, and you will find material on birds in every chapter.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

Like humans preferring snack food and alcohol at night, these spoonbills also have diet preferences depending on the time of the day: “The diet of Spoonbills appeared to differ between night and day because their prey exhibited pronounced nocturnal activity” ( source ). So she took over a bit later.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.

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