Animal Person

AUGUST 1, 2009

Something interesting happened when I read New York Times columnist Bob Herbert's article about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., While whites use illegal drugs at substantially higher percentages than blacks, black men are sent to prison on drug charges at 13 times the rate of white men.

Obama 100

Obama New York Times New York illegal 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Rather than painting all bird images to face the same direction, as is customary in many field guides, the Navarro combines images of the bird looking left, right, up, even right at you, the sums of the images creating compositions of diagonal lines, circles, and mirror images. We still can’t just buy a plane ticket and go.

Cuba 224

Cuba Birds United States 2000 224

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The statute defines a depiction of animal cruelty as “any visual or auditory depiction, including any photograph, motion-picture film, video recording, electronic image, or sound recording of conduct in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, if such conduct is illegal.”

Pit Bulls 40

Pit Bulls Animal Cruelty Laws Animal 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. The progression could be said to echo that of an earlier book about an obsessive nature criminal, The Orchard Thief by Susan Orlean, which started out as an article in The New Yorker.). 2019), and now this book. Author Joshua Hammer. photo credit: Cordula Krämer).

Falcons 200

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2021

Then, I discovered 10,000 Birds, and it didn’t take me too long to figure out that I was already doing something very much like what is done every week right here. In June of last year, CNN ran an article on Costa Rica’s success at reversing deforestation. The state is, after all, Mexico’s fourth-poorest state.

Costa Rica 149

Costa Rica Birds Mexico illegal 149

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In fact, a recent article in the Economist on Singapore’s rewilding states “The oriental pied hornbill (pictured), with its extraordinary ivory casque, had been locally extinct for a century. In fact, given the right chromosomes, hybridization is possible between the two species and has been observed ( source ).

Rhinoceros 124

Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 124

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.

Birds 215

Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 215

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Chapters are thoroughly footnoted for print resources and interview, and the seven-page Bibliography gives complete citations for articles and books on all the diverse threads of the book. The expert witness is Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, cousin to the comedian. Seriously, this book is crying out for a movie treatment!). Excellent, thorough Index.

Collecting 102

Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 102

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Two-columned text is on the left and illustrations and range maps on the right. The arrangement of the maps with the bird images on each right-hand page are marvels of graphic design; it’s always clear which map belongs to which species, even when the images are not arranged strictly linearly. Illustrations.

Indonesia 121

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 121

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! I returned home with very mixed feelings, which have spurred this article. According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008.

Ghana 188

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 188