4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

Then travel to the Rockies, for a ringside seat as male bighorn sheep go head-to-head in a bloody battle for breeding rights. Clip – Big Horn Bash: A young male big horned sheep challenges an older male to a fight. In a rarely filmed event, see newly awakened black bears go on the hunt for newborn elk calves.

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America Sheep Penguins South America 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. These refuges support huge numbers of swans, geese, ducks, cranes, and shorebirds as they hopscotch their way to breeding grounds in the north. These protected areas are not merely convenient, they are essential.

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Wildlife Grizzly Bear Puerto Rico United States 189

Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2010

If this policy is adopted, European farms could be populated by cloned supersize animals used as breeding stock for cows, pigs and sheep that are reared for food. However, a leaked report to be discussed by the EU’s College of Commissioners today comes out in favour of food from the offspring of clones.

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Breeding Stock Farm Animal Farmed Animals Welfare 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2018

Yet, in the late 1970s there still were six colonies with about 40 breeding pairs left, but in the early 1990s only two colonies and 22 pairs persisted (of which only 13 bred in 1991) – five of them in this gorge. There are very few sheep in the meadows and too few animals end up dead in the open, where scavengers can get them.

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Serbia Herzegovina Bosnia Sheep 107

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The first house had a sheep pen, with a pile of dung that clearly attracted a lot of insects and, further on, they attracted several Spotted Flycatchers , plus a large walnut tree with ripe nuts falling down ( Green Woodpecker , Eurasian Nuthatch , etc).

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Bears San Jose Greece Costa Rica 143

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Police dogs, for example, may have to spend a lot of time outside as part of their role, as could guide dogs, guard dogs and sheep dogs. Thick coats are a must for certain breeds in the winter. These canines might require more accessories due to the large amount of time they spend outside.

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Dogs Pets Kennels Sheep 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

Being technically outside the summer tourism season, one can enjoy the somewhat less expensive travel and hotel costs, less crowded venues, great weather and nearly endless daylight—and of course many birds migrating and beginning the breeding/nesting season! There you will find more breeding terns, gulls and dozens of Graylag Geese.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 192

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 2, 2013

This is a particularly good option for working breeds and those with high exercise demands, like sheep dogs and labs. If you live in or near a more rural area, many farms will also take dogs at an affordable rate, providing both boarding and a host of opportunities for playing outside and interacting with farm animals.

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Kennels Pets Costa Rica Vet 100

Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat ” (news article, April 21): The commercial development of meat from animal tissue won’t result in “fake meat” any more than cloning sheep results in fake sheep. coli bacteria or food additives. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal.

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New York Times New York Meat Sheep 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2021

They believed there was potential for sheep in those days, but now there are only cattle. The cattle are a cross breed of Brahman and shorthorn, so they can withstand the extreme weather. We often think about how deceiving it would have been to the early explorers that came to the north of Australia during the wet season.

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Cattle Sheep Australia 2010 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2016

July is that boring period after the breeding and prior to migration season. These are overgrown in steppe grasses and local sheep herders are subsidised by the authorities to bring their animals here to keep the grass short, prevent succession by bushes and manage the habitat for vulnerable Sousliks , or European ground squirrels.

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Sheep Turtles Squirrels Europe 126

Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

Suppose there was a breed of sheep that became very ill when the sheep’s fleece was removed; they did not function normally. Would we still wish to say that the amputated limbs were products rather than parts of the animals? KBJ: Ditto. Moreover, this account also seems overly restrictive in one respect.

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Vegetarian Morals Suffering Vegan 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

It is not unusual to drive by a farm building and see a bunch of Greater Rheas on the farm’s fenced-in pasture next to sheep or goats. On the contrary, the birds were quite satisfied with their new-found freedom and realms, and started breeding immediately after their escape in the spring of 2001, much to everyone’s surprise.

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Germany Birds 2000 South America 250

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2014

It breeds in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard and overwinters (singly and at mountain top hot springs – if Hollywood is to be trusted) along the coasts of northern Europe. Next were the wet meadows of Tunstall Marshes (cover photo), where grazing sheep awaited us and, among them, Mute Swans.

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Geese Barn Owls Serbia Sheep 212

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

On the islands that make their home, they are rock stars compared to parakeets that dig up storm-petrels to eat ( Antipodes Parakeet ), parrots that kill sheep in order to eat (the incomparable Kea ) and parrots that chew my guttering in the hope that it has turned edible since the last time they tried ( Kaka ).

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New Zealand Parrots Sanctuary Family 185

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

But you can take solace in the results at the end of the breeding year, when loafing around the intertidal are a shiny new cohort of finely plumage grey youngsters, all ready to carry on Western Gull line into the future. Western Gull chick. It is without question an unpleasant way to die for any animal.

Animal Rights 265

Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 265

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

The bulk of my lifers were on a trip to India in October/November but all the birds were surpassed by watching and photographing a Snow Leopard hunting and killing a Blue Sheep , so none of them are real contenders for BBOTY. Hence my birding travel (and blogging) has been curtail (but life much enriched!)

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2013 Birds Costa Rica India 167