Critter News

DECEMBER 26, 2008

The ALDF has released a report on how different states' animal protection laws stack up. Tags: animal law. Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

One of the admirable things about Montana is how it contains prime examples of not one, but two iconic North American landscapes. But eastern Montana contains the equally though differently stunning high plains, a world unto itself with very different wildlife meeting very different challenges.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It involves plate tectonics; and the separation of North America from South America and their eventual reconnection; and the end of the Cretaceous Era thanks to a big asteroid, and the movements of animals, including humans, in response to all of those things. Well, I know of one such guy, anyway. With abundant roadkill (1.3

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Reddit Animals

MAY 14, 2021

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Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

I'm excited to be a blogger for Animal Rights Zone because its target market is people who don't usually subscribe to blogs. More >> Animals. You can search Animal Person's content (posted on AR Zone) using the search box on the right, under the AR Zone badge. Today is the launch of. On the left, you'll see this: Concepts.

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Reddit Animals

MAY 7, 2023

Every year on our camping trip to Crystal lake Montana we go catching turtles because it’s just a really fun family tradition, normally one of my cousins would bring nail polish and we mark our initials on the shell so we can know if we catch the same ones years after.

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Critter News

JUNE 14, 2010

The University of Montana study, aimed at exploring the effects of climate change on mountain goats, got under way this month with preliminary field work in the Many Glacier Valley. Tags: animal research montana. From the Daily Interlake. However, a second male goat died after it was darted on Thursday.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

It’s always risky to say what separates humans from other animals — tool use, self-awareness, and the perception of morality no longer being as obvious a set of distinctions as they once were – but I will go out on a limb and say that narrative is at least as characteristic of humans as feathers are of birds.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I love this promotional video from the folks at Beartooth Humane Alliance in Montana! Beartooth Humane Alliance originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on September 9, 2010. Tags: events people helping animals. A great sense of humor, and a good cause too!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2017

Falcon Wild is a new book in that long tradition, and this one features a more realistic (though still very slightly romanticized) portrait of a human/animal partnership. Stark, a white Gyrfalcon , is a falconry bird born and raised.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 25, 2010

Talking Hot Dog Ranch, Livingston, Montana: Casey Anderson tosses Brutus the grizzly bears a fish at homemade “falls.&# (Photo Credit: © Grizzly Creek Films). Casey then returns to Montana to see if he can teach a bear raised in captivity to fish for himself, in an aquarium designed for that purpose. Are you ready to get WILD?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

We’ve had a lot of discussion recently on the pros and cons of interfering with ‘nature’ on behalf of an individual animal. A second call netted only Animal Control’s number. Animal Control was on the way. I have only praise for the woman from Animal Control. I like bats.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2013

Here in Montana I use an expansive definition of “yard” to put Barrow’s Goldeneye on my yard-list. A Rose-breasted Grosbeak , here, is an exciting one-off visitor, and a wonderful shot of Mourning Doves in the act of mating is the equivalent of half an hour of Animal Planet.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2014

For example, to irrupt , at least as far as animals are concerned, is simply to enter a region suddenly and in very large numbers. Even the word “ invade ” describes intrusions described colorfully as forceful, hostile, destructive, and even injurious. … Here at 10,000 Birds 20 July – 26 July is Invasive Species Week.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

Also ferrets are curious animals, explorers, willing to take risks; they’ve had to be. We’ll do this until the dawn breaks over eastern Montana. The ferret raises her head again — up periscope — and hesitates. She’s dealt with creatures like us before; it was unpleasant but not fatal.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2012

My travelling companion, also from the University of Montana creative writing program, was not a nature girl at all, but she could relate to birds that played a role in stories. The White Storks were also among the few birds that I reliably found other people interested in.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

Butcher (no joke) from Montana: " “No one has to send a horse to a processing plant. And no matter how special we claim horses are, they're only special if they're still worth something (to us. Financially). Then take a subsequent sentence--a quote by Representative Edward B. It’s just an option for horses that are unusable.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Here is a New York Times story about gray wolves, who are no longer on the protected list in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. If you haven't read Barry Holstun Lopez 's 1978 book Of Wolves and Men , you should do so. It changed my life.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Jennifer Ackerman brings a sense of curiosity and wonder to her material, whether she’s interviewing evolutionary ecologist Christopher Clark about the mechanics of an owl’s silent flight or looking for Northern Pygmy Owl nests in Montana with a team from the Owl Research Institute.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2017

But I’d been through a very similar event when I lived in Montana and worked for Days at Dunrovin, and I knew that many of the people involved would take the situation very hard.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

In each instance they start with a striking anecdote — my particular favorite took place on the University of Montana campus, where in 1964 an American Crow learned to call and taunt stray dogs into causing perhaps the most adorable college riots of the decade.

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