Critter News

MARCH 4, 2010

We're talking about Knut the polar bear. He was the cute little polar bear whose birth at the Berlin Zoo was so controversial because his mother rejected him. He was raised by a trainer. Tags: zoos knut Germany polar bear PETA. She's here temporarily for companionship, but the group is concerned. How suggestive!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

A study by wildlife ecologist Mark Ditmer recently found that overhead flights by drones caused a significant jump in the heart rate of wild bears — this despite the bears outwards signs of indifference. This raises the question of whether or not drones can cause serious harm to birds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

On the breeding grounds of the north, a small bird flies into the night, takes a bearing for the south, gains altitude and flies onward. Migrant birds make an incredibly perilous journey, twice per year. How’s that for an understatement of the obvious? The equation seems incredible. Flap, flap, glide.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2013

Baltimore Orioles are surprisingly slight when you get a look at them, but troupials are about the size of a jay, and with the bearing to go with it. Troupials raise their own chicks, generally 3 to 4 per clutch, they just steal the nest in which they raise them. Take a look at this sucker. For starters, it’s massive.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 25, 2010

Talking Hot Dog Ranch, Livingston, Montana: Casey Anderson tosses Brutus the grizzly bears a fish at homemade “falls.&# (Photo Credit: © Grizzly Creek Films). The premiere episode of Expedition Wild is a multi-part look at North America’s mightiest carnivores, featuring naturalist Casey Anderson900-pound grizzly bear.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Raise global awareness of Peru’s potential as a top-notch birding destination whilst highlighting the need to conserve bird habitat across the country. We maybe forfeited our chances of winning because of that fantastic hour spent watching the Spectacled bear and its cub. A female C**k-of-the-rock.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2017

Near Summit Lake we have been able to witness Williamson’s Sapsuckers ( Sphyrapicus thyroideus ) raising their young in a snag near the campground. American Coots ( Fulica americana ) raise their young at the park also. And Red-breasted Sapsuckers (Sphyrapicus ruber) are common. She is in a snag, at least forty feet up!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Santuario de Flora y Fauna Otún Quimbaya is an exquisite national park in Risaralda, Colombia that is home to more than 300 bird species along with tons of butterflies and amazing mammals like Spectacled Bears , Red Howler Monkeys , Two-toed Sloths , and Tapirs.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Pambassador finalists will participate in the current panda release plan, designed to re-introduce captive bears into the wild. Isn’t that exciting?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.”

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

And because of the resemblance they bear to their New World cousins in the family Phasianidae , they even look the part of an “authentic” wild bird in North America. The same can’t really be said of a confusing Orange Bishop or gaudy Mandarin Duck loose in a city park.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

In a rarely filmed event, see newly awakened black bears go on the hunt for newborn elk calves. Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth. We are very excited to be able to share some preview footage with you! Untamed Americas: Mountains. Premieres Sunday, June 10, 9 p.m.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

. “It’s bad enough that these dogs were treated cruelly and raised in horrible conditions,&# said Tim Rickey, the ASPCA Senior Director of Field Investigations and Response. “They bear the battle scars consistent with those of fighting dogs,&# Rickey said.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. The closer one raises her head, than lies back. Telia yawns, raises and sprays her urine on a dead tree stump, marking her territory. The Telia Lake.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Even if we couldn’t find time to raise the bins at a favorite patch, it only takes momentary glances into the sky and hearing chip notes from the trees to remind us that birds are on the move. In the meantime, I hope to bear witness to the continued spectacle of fall migration right at the homestead and further afield.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2017

The Zapata Swamp, Ciénaga de Zapata , is of course known for the three birds that bear it’s name: the Zapata Rail, the Zapata Wren, and the Zapata Sparrow. The bird flies around our group, alights onto a bush and, just as I raise my camera, dives into the bush. I took a brief, wobbly, video of the process. The wren comes in!

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 26, 2008

I make animal plushies and donate 60% from each sale to AnimalsAsia 's China Bear Rescue. :) My goal is to raise at least $1,000 this year, and you would be really helping me out by swapping links with me. :) Let me know if you're interested!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. I didn’t.).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Having successfully claimed ownership of the nest, the Piratic Flycatchers move in, lay and incubate their eggs, and ultimately raise their young in the pirated nest. It bears an uncanny resemblance to the extremely common Great Kiskadee ! Piratic Flycatcher. Much rarer and extremely similar is the Variegated Flycatcher.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The closely related Lesser Antillean Flycatcher bears visual, geographical, and behavioural similarities. The Lesser Antillean Pewee on St. Lucia is sometimes called the St. Lucia Pewee – arguably the most striking subspecies with rich cinnamon underparts.

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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.

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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. But Mars’s character is less about being an eagle and more about the fact that he was stolen from his nest, raised in captivity, and now considers almost all of mankind – except Luna – to be his enemy.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

Once one bears in mind that it is this comparative assessment that is required, then it seems to me there will be a strong case (1) for Humane Slaughter, and humane treatment prior to slaughter, and (2) insofar as really painless and comfortable animal-raising is not attained or attainable, giving vegetarianism a try, at least.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Forget lions, tigers, and bears – if Internet listicles are to be believed, all of Oz is full of crocodiles, sharks, jellyfish, snakes, spiders – even magpies – that are dead set on killing, maiming, or injuring any humans they encounter.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. The Little Cuckoo-Dove indeed looks like a cross between a pigeon and a cuckoo, though it is the former, proudly (and in my opinion, mistakenly) raising its own chicks despite the costs and annoyances of doing so.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2015

Along the way, they braved sleepless nights and sleeping bears.) This helps spare parents the aggravation and exhaustion of ferrying fish from the ocean to the fishless lakes where the chicks are raised. Their work found that young loons fledge before they reach their final adult weight. What are the takeaways? Pun half-intended.)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

After a slow start, enough chicks had been hatched and raised by 1991 to allow for the release of captive-bred condors in the wild in California. So, after bearing with that admittedly lengthy lecture on Cologne and its beer, let’s return to the condor. With enough room for another, of course.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Well, that doesn’t even bear thinking about. And then, in that perfect, peaceful moment, I will raise my hand, making sure the bird can see it clearly, and I will extend my middle finger high. And if I dip again? I better not miss this bird again. Yet, here I am, back from Austria, minus one Black Woodpecker sighting.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion? That was one of his cats. He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

The bird’s skeleton bears similarities to New Guinea’s much smaller (!) In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. crowned-pigeons and is thought to have been a close relative. We must fight to save every species we can, every ecosystem, every niche.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

to have and raise children. Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? She described in her book “My Journey to Lhasa&# (1927) how, in the rugged mountain of tibet, women were commonly married to 2 men (sometimes brothers), making it easier (or simply possible?)

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed? This, however, is not our world, so I don’t understand the bearing of the question. Furthermore, genetic engineering might be able to produce meat-bearing animals that could be used for food without being killed.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I sat for hours, dreamily watching those rocks raising to the sky, covered by the dense primary vegetation of this subtropical area. This mountainous area, which forms part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, is described as a karst landscape by Wikipedia (narrow peaks formed by erosion of limestones).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2022

Yala National Park is brimming with wildlife and there are good chances of seeing Leopard , Sloth Bear and Asian Elephant , while it is also excellent for dry-zone birds, while the nearby Bundala coastal marshes and Palatupana ponds are good spots for shorebirds. What makes this guide different from many others?

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