10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. The Philippine Eagle has a kind face.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey. Marc Bekoff wrote this article for Can Animals Save Us? ,

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

I returned home with very mixed feelings, which have spurred this article. This certainly raises a question of ethics for any birder contemplating a visit; should you hurry to Ghana’s forests and witness the last of this diversity as it is being destroyed or is it better to simply stay away?

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