10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Europe has one species (Eurasian Spoonbill), the Americas have one (Roseate Spoonbill), Australia two (Royal and Yellow-billed Spoonbill), and Asia has two as well (Eurasian and Black-faced Spoonbill). Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary.

Ostriches 147

Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Owls live and migrate from Arctic circumpolar to Colorado prairie to South American rainforest to Southeast Asian islands, Galapagos islands, Canary islands–many many islands–to coastal Australia and onward. Wolf Lichen is rich in toxic vulpinic acid and in the old days was boiled up with meat and used to poison wolves.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

Well, Copenhagen Zoo is back in the news; a few weeks after killing a giraffe and feeding it to some lions, it went and killed some of those same lions. If the whole thing passed you by then Mother Jones did a good piece on why zoos sometimes have to kill individuals for the good of the species.

Lions 150

Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. These birds can learn to pull a string to retrieve a short stick, use the stick to pull out a longer one, then use the long stick to draw out a piece of meat. One, then another, flew off and brought back pine needles and twigs and laid them by his body.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100