10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
The latest press release from the USFWS. What this press release doesn’t mention about the amount of money pumped into the economy by the National Wildlife Refuge System, as stated in the Banking on Nature Report, about 72 percent of total expenditures are generated by non-consumptive activities on refuges!
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 8, 2008
For, at least as both are usually construed, the only major difference between ethical egoism and act-utilitarianism is that the egoist is concerned with maximizing utility in his own case, so that only consequences which affect him bear upon the rightness and wrongness of his acts.
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Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 7, 2008
By forgoing meat in our diets, we can reduce, if not eliminate, this massive suffering of animals, merely through bringing market forces to bear upon factory farming. This, however, is precisely what factory farming does.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump. And don’t forget, I’m the one coming out of solitude and ready to rejoin humanity in March of 2020. Perch Press (March 24, 2020). Your last post for 10,000 birds was in 2017. Are you still rehabbing birds?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
And sun bears. The books work best when the birding is coupled with the human element. As I was finishing up this review, I discovered that Princeton University Press will be bringing out a U.S. Press, Fall 2012. If it were just the birds, I’d grab my bins and be on the next plane to Asia or Africa. And mosquitos.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges. Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? In this case, they would be exhibiting polyandry. Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin!
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