10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

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Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. Look at all these incidents that have occurred there (listed in the Montreal Gazette article in the above link).I I don't track zoos, but this seems like an unusually high number of casualties.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed. Have op-ed article writers Peter Singer and Karen Dawn not seen the beautiful natural habitat at the L.A. Further, did those who reacted so strongly to Harambe’s killing go home and serve meat to their children? Michelle Nadon, Aurora, Canada To the editor: Bars?

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Los Angeles Gorillas Zoos Non Human 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history. In case you didn’t know, yes, there is an indigenous peacock living in Africa, the Congo Peafowl.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. Picture being a Blackpoll Warbler being born in the boreal forests of Alaska.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 222

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

I returned home with very mixed feelings, which have spurred this article. 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.

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