King gives whales human rights in bid to stop global slaughter
Reddit Animals
APRIL 10, 2024
Amazingly not the first time non-humans have been given the same rights as people. link] submitted by /u/Drwatson99999 [link] [comments]
When conservation and animal rights collide
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”
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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.
Why Humans Are the Only Ones with Rights
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2011
Someone posted a question about why humans have human rights and whether they should considering that others do not. Therefore, we are the only ones who matter and the only ones who should have rights. In the matter of science, and there are varying levels of this viewpoint, the human is the most advanced of creatures.
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Did humans kill off one of the last dinosaurs, er, giant birds?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
This is one of several giant birds that went extinct fairly recently, and in many cases, humans as suspected. Genyornis newtoni lived in Australia, and recent research suggests that humans may have played a role in the extinction of this dinosaur laughingly called a bird, about 40,000 years ago. ka, and likely before 47?ka.
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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"
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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How did the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale get its name?
Reddit Animals
JANUARY 5, 2024
People in North America began using the term “right whale” in the early 1700s, and originally “right” may have meant “typical,” as these whales were considered common and ordinary. However, over time, the term evolved to refer to how they were hunted—they were considered “the right whales to hunt.”
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40 Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
It’s become regrettably political in the US right, which is the absolute worst response to a potential pandemic going. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people. My parents are in England, should I be worried about the conflict on the other side of Europe in the Ukraine?”
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Birdie Magnetic Sense and Human Generated Electromagnetic Fields
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2014
Also, consider the possibility that modern birds descended from an animal that migrated by foot, or a form that flew only a little now and then but was mostly terrestrial/arboreal and not aerial. Bird migration is cool and important and a major adaptation right? See this and this for more on that sort of thing.). Also, consider this.
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Beliefs About Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
JULY 24, 2015
Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here. Note from KBJ: This post is by Mylan Engel.
The Link Between Animal Welfare and Human Welfare
Critter News
JUNE 12, 2012
This is an interesting opinion piece about the link between animal welfare and human welfare in nations. From the Huffington Post.
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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?
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. For an attorney, that's awfully weak.
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New Hub for Animal Rights
Animal Person
DECEMBER 18, 2009
Stephanie Ernst, formerly of Change.org , has started a new space called " Animal Rights and AntiOppression " and she has invited yours truly to post there! Stephanie has also invited Deb from Invisible Voices , Kelly G from easyVegan.info and Marji, who blogs for Animal Place sanctuary and For the Pits.
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On Nonhuman Animals and Human Babies
Animal Person
JULY 6, 2010
I did go to Babies-R-Us for some odds and ends and here's the Animal Person-related experience. Animals are all over the place at Babies-R-Us. As long as the animals aren't on a farm or otherwise being used by humans, I love the idea of animals in the lives of babies. She sniffed Sky up and down and walked away.
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100 Poor hedgehog. Did I do the right decision? I still think of my little fellow from times to times.
Reddit Animals
DECEMBER 15, 2023
I think I did the right decision but it was not an easy one. They are one of my favorite animals in my country. He was looking at me like “ what are you doing here human? I sometimes think about this accident and hope I did right. And I hope the hedgehog had many nice days after that day. They are just so relaxed.
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On Dolphins as a Gateway to Animal Rights
Animal Person
JANUARY 6, 2010
I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. Of course, the size of a brain isn't what's important.
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Introducing Mayan Spirit Animals Unleashed
Reddit Animals
JULY 7, 2023
Introducing "Mayan Spirit Animals Unleashed" ?? Hey there, fellow book lovers of r/animals ! Allow me to introduce you to the captivating world of "Mayan Spirit Animals Unleashed" - the first book in the "Spirit Animals Unleashed" series! ✨ Calling all Bookworms! Eagle, the fierce ?
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Whooper Swans at Lake Kussharo, Hokkaido
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2024
They are ridiculously unafraid of people there – so the cynic in me suspects that swan meat is not regarded as tasty by the Japanese (another explanation, that the Japanese just like animals too much, can presumably be discarded given the country’s very principled approach in insisting on the right to kill whales).
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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai in October 2021
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Estren said that humans should be mindful of their bias for cute animals, so animals that would not be considered cute are also valued in addition to cute animals. And yet, it is surprisingly easy to see here in the right season (if you look in the right places). Estren, a Ph.D. It is beautiful, too.
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Birding in a Refinery
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2023
Birding in a place where animals are assiduously cared for and not harassed in any form or fashion means that the encounters themselves are essentially guaranteed to be memorable – and not of fleeing bird behinds! These two Muscovy drakes brutally battled for about ten minutes right in front of us.
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National Animal Rights Conference in LA Starts July 16
Critter News
JUNE 25, 2009
Some of the groups attending will be: FARM In Defense of Animals Sea Shepherd ACT Radio Anti-Fur Society E/Environmental Mag Eko Zone Healing Species League of Humane Voters Mercy For Animals Stop Animal Exploitation Now! Tags: animal rights. It sounds like they are participating in some form or another.
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Birding Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2023
As the rice paddies near Kota Kinabalu described in an earlier post , Tanjung Aru beach is not really a major birding spot in its own right. The Long-tailed Parakeet can sometimes be seen here feeding right next to the Blue-naped Parrot. Like many humans, it is presumed to be monogamous (source: HBW).
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Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
I'm a longtime proponent of animal rights, but this suit is ridiculous. First, the 13th Amendment was designed to abolish human chattel slavery. Applying it to nonhuman animals is a stretch. Second, it is not a necessary condition for the possession of rights (legal or otherwise) that one be a person.
Amazing Holiday Giveaway (for the humans)
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
Naughty or Nice, you will find the perfect gift at the right price! The post Amazing Holiday Giveaway (for the humans) appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. But what are you going to get the person who seems to have everything? This giveaway is sponsored by the companies mentioned above. giveaways holidays'
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Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior, by John Kricher — a review
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2020
How, to humans, is “behavior” separate from the bird itself? Among their other uses, wings are also employed for balance during copulation, a not unimportant or inconsequential usage, as the male Bald Eagle ably demonstrates in the photo, above right. What do we mean, anyway, by bird “behavior”? Other than purely physical things (e.g.,
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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills
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. This allowed the Blumenschine crew to carry out experiments that involved every possible series of events, using animals of different sizes.
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On "The Road" and Humanity
Animal Person
JUNE 12, 2010
When the landscape is barren and there are few living creatures of any kind, people begin to lose their humanity. And that's when they start to do the unthinkable: eat other humans. Bad guys treat humans the way they'd treat animals. Even the good guys sometimes treat people the way they'd treat animals.
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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?
Critter News
AUGUST 27, 2009
I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. If a meat eater eats meat, but hates the factory farm system or animal experimentation, do we discount anything we can get out of them because they are not "pure."
Humane Society Puts Pressure on South Carolina's Bear Baying
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2010
Ugh, this is barbaric and right out of the dark ages. Armed with new undercover video of four such events, the Humane Society of the United States is pressuring state officials to explicitly outlaw the practice, which the organization says is effectively banned in every other state. From the AP. State law on the issue is murky.
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How to ‘treat’ your cat right
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
Pets come to depend on their owners, trusting them to do what’s best for them, and every owner should make the effort to treat their pet right. Just like people, pets that are not treated right can suffer from stress and other health problems, and an inadequate diet, for example, will make cats more prone to infections and illnesses.
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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Described in the “Territoriality and aggression” chapter, this is a sublime example of behaviour from the “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman, an Emeritus Chair in Behavioural and Environmental Biology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans.
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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not. Harris’s are also, according to Cowan, smarter than other hawks; they hunt in packs and, for that reason, may welcome humans as hunting partners more so than other raptors. We serve them.”.
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200 Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2015
What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Human rights, property rights, and wildlife rights – all in one steel container.
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Greece: Oliver the Husky
Reddit Animals
MARCH 17, 2024
Info: A brutal and deathly animal abuse and raped of a husky named "Oliver" was reported the previous November in 2023. Only human hands are possible to do such things! Tola confirmed the human abuse but everyone else tried to make her to look wrong! Various protests happened with people demanding justice!
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On Humane Societies and Calf-Roping
Animal Person
JULY 1, 2009
Angus directed me to a story about the Calgary Stampede (rodeo) and the Calgary and Vancouver Humane Societies which had me asking: Whose side are they on? The Calgary Humane Society works with the Stampede to make sure the animals are safe (and by the way that's impossible if the animals are being used in the rodeo.
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Birding Shanghai in June 2022
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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This is my dream – this is my nightmare
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2022
Indian gazelle You know the secret of how African park rangers find animals for tourists? And the animals themselves? When they spot a traffic jam in the savanna, it is easy enough to conclude that some unfortunate animal is being surrounded by telephoto lenses. The main tactic is diversion.
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248 Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
The authors resist getting mystical or sentimental, nor do they unduly move humans front and center except as fellow-beings that affect the environment their subjects live in (despite the subtitle.) Nothing keeps a human reader more engaged than a genuine character, and the birds here are exactly that.
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139 Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
In issuing its condemnation of established cultural practices, the rights view is not antibusiness, not antifreedom of the individual, not antiscience, not antihuman. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Still, it can make a contribution.
What do we do about trophy ("sport") hunting?
Reddit Animals
JUNE 14, 2023
I hate when animals are killed needlessly simply to be stuffed or their heads hung on the wall. It seems both political parties do nothing for animals. Popular hunting magazines make animal rights groups like they're the bad guys. "We need to watch out for the ASPCA, the humane society, PETA, etc."
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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
The legal rights of nonhuman animals might first be achieved in any of three ways. For example, the Treaty of Amsterdam that came into force on May 1, 1999, formally acknowledged that nonhuman animals are “sentient beings” and not merely goods or agricultural products. Wise , “ The Evolution of Animal Law Since 1950 ,” chap.
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Birding Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 24, 2020
As we humans are animals, like birds are, it often seems to make more sense to me to assume that their and our drivers are similar, not different. Of course, we humans tend to give slightly elevated terms to our motives – but that does not generally mean that they are really different from those of other animals.
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Animal Ethics
MAY 20, 2008
A few years ago, philosopher David Oderberg published an essay entitled " The Illusion of Animal Rights " in The Human Life Review. A few months ago, having belatedly discovered Oderberg's essay, I wrote a critique entitled " Oderberg on Animal Rights ," which I duly submitted to The Human Life Review for publication.
On "Animal Activism"
Animal Person
MAY 23, 2009
I've used the term "animal activism" lately as an experiment. I notice that if I use "animal rights activist" or anything with the word "rights" in it, because it's loaded and misunderstood, my listener often has an immediate bias of some kind. First, note that now PeTA is an "animal advocacy group."
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