Critter News

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures. -- Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Emotional Cruelty Science Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

In this first installment, I will focus on my impressions and experiences in the highlands portion of our tour. The experience of seeing a pair feeding and calling in the mountains of Honduras felt like a much more genuine birding experience to me. the species suffering most from deforestation).

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Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador Arizona 209

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The white redtail couldn’t fly because she’d spent somewhere between 14 and 24 hours on the ground in freezing rain, encased in mud, and was suffering from capture myopathy, a sometimes-fatal condition induced by stress. White hawks hold special religious significance for many Native American tribes.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Birds Delaware 191

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). Then rumors leaked out that at this same site the mythical Red Owl could easily be seen, Madagascar Serpent Eagle was breeding and other rare birds and lemurs abounded.

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 233

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2014

In my experience, parrots form a visibly and numerically important component of the Brazilian bird fauna. Both of these endemic parrots suffer from habitat loss and trapping for the pet trade. Brazil, in particular, is the country with the largest number of parrot species in the world with approximately 84 species.

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Parrots Brazil Mauritius Dominica 167

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? In other words, the perception of pain is affected. My objection is: Why do such research when you don't need to? That action is to opt out and go vegan.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

Also, I somehow doubt that whether I am stuck at work or not really influences how everyone else experiences spring but this is my blog post so I can use whatever criteria I want to measure how well spring has gone. Besides, suffering brings birds, right? Well, I did see a bunch of year birds but they were almost all shorebirds.

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New York City New York Walruses Birds 162

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

But they too lead one to accept "ethical meat" as an option because their focus is on suffering. If you want to reduce suffering, there are indeed ways to do that. But why cause suffering at all when you don't need to? You are choosing domination and enslavement and forced breeding and unnecessary slaughter.

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Vegan Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Reading thousand-word long posts in black type on a plain white screen with nothing interesting to look at isn't exactly a satisfying sensory experience. I think this is why I understand the thinking of people who don't want us to use animals but who promote changing the way we use them to decrease their numbers or their suffering.

Vegan 100

Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The guide covers the all–1194 species in the Species Accounts, including 959 native breeding species, 219 Nearctic migrants, 8 breeding visiting species, and 5 introduced species. Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 212

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Red-flanked Bluetail is also the subject of an otherwise relatively unremarkable paper , but it uses the interesting term “autumn obesity” Maybe this Marsh Sandpiper also suffers from autumn obesity? The Eurasian Hobby was another notable raptor of the month. Not this one though.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 192

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Outside the breeding season they may tarvel in large flocks looking for outbreaks of these bugs. They do need older trees, which host more lerps, and they can suffer due to some land use types. That isn’t to say it’s easy, however. So let’s hear it for the wonderful pardalotes!

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Australia Fiji Hunters Family 170

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2012

No, you see, the males are pretty defensive about their young, and in the breeding season will aggressively attack what they perceive as a threat to their nest. It’s an unnerving experience and not at all pleasant even if the bird doesn’t connect often, and I am no stranger to bird attacks.

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New Zealand Birds Australia Kangaroos 148

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2018

This species has suffered rapid population reductions across most of its range owing to the loss, degradation and fragmentation of its habitat and land-use changes in eastern Europe, says IUCN’s Red List. Yet, David, who has much more experience with bustards, isn’t convinced: “In winter, some females develop bristles, too.”.

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Hungary Serbia Austria Eggs 140

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below? There was a breeding pair at Binjiang Forest Park this June. In an experiment conducted by renowned ornithologists, they sent out applications for a position as a bird model. Yes, you do, trust me. Sometimes it works.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 180