10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics. Feeding Frenzy at Jamaica Bay.Or

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 153

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Anyway, one of the babblers of Sepilok is the Bornean Black-capped Babbler – the result of a split of the Black-capped Babbler (well, at least from a human perspective – the birds themselves are probably quite nonchalant about it). This bee-eater is another bird species with a somewhat underwhelming work ethic.

Woodpeckers 211

Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 211

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to this Associated Press story, if you are wearing a Sean John jacket with fur trim purchased from Macy's, that trim might have come from a dog indigenous to Asia known as a "raccoon dog." There is absolutely no good reason to kill an animal (not even humanely) just to use her fur as ornamental trim on a jacket.

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Fur Fur Industry HSUS Raccoons 40