Critter News
MARCH 6, 2010
Why would this West Virginia University project be the recipient of federal stimulus money? From West Virginia Metro News. The laboratory will be used to study human diseases and treatments. Tags: west virginia university animal research Obama tax dollars us. It will house rodents for use in experiments.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2021
Normally the slender, fairy-feathered shorebirds are shy and avoid the humans who encroach on their territory. But a small colony of them have made an exception for Elton Reed, who has fished off Chincoteague Island, Virginia for almost five decades. Snowy Egrets like to keep their distance. That’s not it,” said Elton.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2020
To humans, birdsong is akin to Joycean language, isn’t it? Photographers: Wil Hershberger (American woodcock, Eastern whip-poor-will); Marie Read (Virginia rail, Northern flicker); Robert Royse (Canyon wren, Wilson’s snipe). And to follow Kroodsma’s suggested paths, all of them, might take you, not centuries, but surely years.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia. I wish people would start appreciating the misunderstood animals out there, like snakes and opossums,” wrote Elissa in New York.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
The problem of the unjust use of farm animals is large, growing, historical, institutionalized, governmentally encouraged, and fundamentally unregulated at either the state or federal level. Farm animals are treated essentially as raw materials. Instead it aids industry boards that exist solely to sell animal products.
10,000 Birds
JULY 8, 2016
Amy Evrard has a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University and loves to write about human relationships with nature. A few weeks ago I joined a group of bird lovers to go out to a little clearing in the woods of West Virginia and watch the skydance of the American Woodcock. But that makes her sound awfully stuffy.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
PCBs have been linked to major health problems in animals and humans alike…it is also worth noting almost all of it used in the United States was produced by everyone’s favorite corporation, Monsanto. A Citrine Wagtail (!!!) The bird looks deceptively happy from this angle.
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