Critter News
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
I'm not posting this because of the rescue (which is a good thing), but because of HOW this turtle was blinded. The aquarium said it hoped Homer would help raise awareness about the plight of his species. Dangers include fishermen deliberately blinding the animals to protect fishing equipment. From the BBC.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2021
Driving slowly along the track towards the levee separating this area from the Danube backwaters, a largish marten-like animal once ran across the track. About the size of a hare, it is more clumsily jumping, than running… and that tail… It was the European Otter !
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10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2023
At the bank of one such small dam, a Softshell Turtle basks in the afternoon sun, while one Oriental Magpie-Robin is searching the water edge. Occasionally we go so quickly that we may be posing a danger for jay-walking animals… …and then, for no obvious reason, we suddenly stop!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. Perhaps their next product will be named “Gills”—or “Turtle” or “Trout” or Salmon?”
Reddit Animals
APRIL 11, 2023
The 10-year-old Boa was pregnant and had been raised by McAdam since it was a baby. And their behavior is completely consistent with what we would understand as "animal sentience." Whether we like to admit it or not, we (culturally) view animals on a "sentience spectrum."
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 wish people would start appreciating the misunderstood animals out there, like snakes and opossums,” wrote Elissa in New York. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Just Desserts. “I’d
Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2008
In response to both kinds of scenarios, some have begun to raise the possibility of an "eco-intervention," analogous to humanitarian interventions. In some parts of Africa, rangers receive military training and equipment to defend animals (and themselves) from poachers in pursuit of elephants, rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered species.
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