Reddit Animals
APRIL 11, 2023
This put Coffee in an impossible position - he needed to rehome the pythons because they were illegal in Florida, but the FWC was threatening to face him with additional criminal charges if he did so. And their behavior is completely consistent with what we would understand as "animal sentience."
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2023
It is listed as Near Threatened, partly due to the usual occurrence of illegal trade for the pet market. It is listed as vulnerable, again as a consequence of illegal trade and habitat loss. While birds have developed one way of dealing with gravity, flying, other animals have found different ways, for example, just ignoring it.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2024
One proposed explanation by the researchers for this phenomenon is that similar-looking birds reduce their risk of predation, as predators find it more difficult to focus on and isolate a single target. Interested in doing research on the Orange-bellied Leafbird ? melliana but might represent an undescribed subspecies.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
They mimic snakes, a claim to fame that goes all the way back to Aristotle’s History of Animals. ’ Gorman has read and distilled probably every research study ever written about Wrynecks or related to them; my quick count of the citations in the 16-page References section came to 295. This is a very easy book to read.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2024
While it is laudable to publish a paper about the threat to laughingthrushes (including this) by the bird trade, I still feel that lame-joke titles such as “Nothing to laugh about – the ongoing illegal trade in laughingthrushes ( Garrulax species) in the bird markets of Java, Indonesia” should be avoided.
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2022
“A reading of recent research shows that Australian birds are more likely than most to eat sweet foods, live in complex societies, lead long lives, attack other birds, and be intelligent and loud.” It is certainly not true that writing a post about Australia and not mentioning flying foxes is illegal, but why take the risk?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
The Great Elephant Census found that populations of Savanna Elephants Loxodonta africana have fallen by 30% between 2007 and 2014 (around 144,000 animals poached or population shrunk at a rate of 8% a year, a level higher than their reproduction rate; source https://peerj.com/articles/2354.pdf That was my first Savanna Elephant in the wild.
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