Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the Animal Liberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans. That's one result.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? It is estimated that due to conflicts with humans, the bushmeat and body parts trade, disease and habitat destruction, large mammals in Africa may be extinct by the end of this century.

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Los Angeles Gorillas Zoos Non Human 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

But that is because we often have the relationship between dinosaurs and birds reversed in our little primate minds; Much of what is bird-like is not exclusive to birds, but rather, to a larger group of dinosaurs. Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world.

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Birds Primates Marsupials Whales 271

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Below is a selection of the endemic birds and mammals that can be encountered during a birding trip to Ethiopia, all photographs by Adam Riley during a January-February 2012 Rockjumper Birding Tours trip to Ethiopia. Despite sporting the largest canines in proportion to body size of any mammal, they actually feed mostly on grass blades.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

For example, you could say, “among mammals, only three families include species with a meaningful degree of root eating” or “within the family that includes lemmings and voles, there is a mixture of monogamous and polygynous species” and so on. So, here’s the thing. Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans.

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Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 144

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

He had the habit of asking very similar question about the animals featured in his zoology lectures, including basic questions like how big they are, what limits physiology puts on their geographic range, etc. For instance, among animals, booby and noddy combined probably represents the majority of the biomass of the somewhat unusual St.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

Of those traits, there are two kinds: The ones that are bird-like, but are not shared between birds and other animals because of a common ancestor having had the trait. These animals were small, had highly efficient respiratory systems, were feather-clad, and may have soared around a bit. Flight is an example.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Because its extremely difficult to conclusively demonstrate what any nonhuman animal is thinking or feeling, this lack (failure?) of understanding on our part has morphed into an assumption that animals are simply little robots, acting purely on instinct and nothing else. Science, for many years, has done no better.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 216

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

You may have already read The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us by Richard O. The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us. By Richard O. Doubleday, 2017, 448p.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Ghana has the dubious distinction of being the first country to have lost a major primate species since the Convention on Biological Diversity came into force: Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus was declared extinct in 2000 due to forest destruction. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7%

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