10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets. While my cats like the taste of the Greater Racket-tailed Drongo , they tend to look fairly ridiculous eating them, as the racket tail sticks out of their mouth. I agree that they look toxic, particularly the females. Even the scientific species name is igneus , identical to the English name.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 202

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. The cats were eradicated by 1991, which left the mice population to go unchecked. Regardless, we made it Marion and all else added to the experience.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 261

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree. Mites will eventually kill the bird. Bird brought in by a cat or dog. Suspect” dog or cat interactions. After all, “Mother knows best.”

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 254

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

The lake consists of a large body of open water, a belt of tall yellow grass (where a big orange cat can blend and disappear if it chooses so) and, all around it, thick forests of predominantly teak, interspersed with thickets of bamboo. As our Gypsy comes to a halt, one Oriental Honey Buzzard is investigating the new arrivals.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 238

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 29, 2012

Photographer Mark Ross has captured some truly beautiful, and touching, photos of animals abandoned at kill shelters. The book, Animal Shelter Portraits , captures just a small glimpse of what our furry friends experience in shelter situations. The photos in the book made me want to reach out and save each one of them.

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Shelters Animal Kittens Rabbits 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2012

Rock & Rawhide , a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that aims to increase adoptions for dogs and cats in shelters by providing toys and other items that serve as a form of distraction therapy, reducing the stress and noise levels. This shelter has hundreds of dogs and cats coming and going on a daily basis and need our help!

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Shelters Animal Adoptable Cats 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Seeing a wild Snow Leopard is every wildlife enthusiast’s dream, probably the ultimate and most elusive wildlife experience on the planet. Knowing this, we were certainly far from disappointed by our experience but we of course all dreamed of a closer view. View of our camp in the Rhumbak Valley. Hard to believe this was real!

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

We are a far bigger problem on this planet than the (over)population of feral cats, elephants, Canada geese, or any other creature we "manage" or want to manage, "humanely" or otherwise. In my experience there are at least a handful of issues that involve compromise when the idea of veganism collides with real life.

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Project Treadstone Feral Cats Spay Spaying 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Just as the ranger was telling us that we might see wild cats – well, not wild cats, but rather, Wildcats , the wild version of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris lybica , one of those cats popped its head out of the brush about 50 feet beyond her. The most interesting thing about this cat was lack of kitty-cat-ness.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. However I cannot see a rational argument for saying eating dogs or cats is barbaric while eating pork or beef is fine. But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." I think not. The theory is sound.

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Pigs Dogs Meat Ethics 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

When in the position of having the choice, which so far is always, I'd rather choose not to have someone killed for me. And I want Baby Sky to grow up in a home where there is just as much respect for chickens and calves and fishes as there is for greyhounds and cats and people. But they always have their desire to not be killed.

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Greyhounds Forced Molting Debeaking Vegan 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

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?) The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. So, the best way to find a leopard is to find the kill.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 251

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Years ago, I became a wildlife volunteer and advocate because of a cat who caught a bird. Now, he lay frightened and ruffled in my hands, his tail tattered, his feathers damp from the maw of a cat named Puck. Back then, I didn’t know enough about birds, but I knew a lot about cats. I scrambled for a box.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 205

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Now and then individual catfish of various species hunt nearer the surface and larger catfish such as the American Channel Cat will take a duck or other water bird. My own experience at catching catfish (big ones!) From the vantage of the bottom feeder, the fish takes a variety of prey that passes by. pigeons, Columbia livia ).

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Fish Birds Whales Whaling 199

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S. These are magical experiences. Ultimately, the story always comes back to the cahows, whose population grows slowly.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 164

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Lions quenching their thirst in Etosha National Park by Adam Riley Observing Lions hunting is a thrilling experience. This sleek, stunningly patterned cat was a formidable hunting subject, and in its cunning sometimes ended up hunting and killing the hunter.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 195

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

There’s always a chance that we could ingest something bad for us, something that might even kill us – a peril we face anytime we swallow anything, in fact. Drinking is an act of risk and vulnerability, though it’s such an everyday part of our existence that no one thinks of it that way.

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Collecting St. Louis Dogs Sparrows 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2014

Fostering is a wonderful experience. That could involve teaching a dog to stay off the couch or walk better on leash, or teaching a cat to welcome other pets or to play, or simply to teach trust and love. A pet needs time to decompress, to learn trust, to “get over” the shelter experience. If a cat is playing, it’s not meowing!

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Shelters Adoptable Rescue Pets 100

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This says it all: "[T]he vision of sustainable farms that give animals a good life (a life as good as we give our dogs or cats) and an easy death (as easy as a death we give our suffering and terminally ill companion animals) has moved me" (242). But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. A foot deep by some accounts, it killed what life was left in the forest. Is this the type of avian experience we want?

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

In Kangding, there is a rather opulent bird hide – two stories, solid construction, spacious, lots of glass, a separate paved parking lot, though mysteriously (and as far as I can tell from my experience of living in China for almost 20 years, not indicative of fundamentally different physical needs of Chinese people) missing a bathroom.

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Birds Mammals St. Louis Monkeys 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Not many people may know this, but there is a feline related to the domestic cat that is also named tiger – that one is the namesake of the Tiger Shrike. The Eurasian Wryneck also struggles a bit with regard to colors – it still looks like an experiment in different, not quite matching patterns of various shades of brown.

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Birds Tigers Humane Ecuador 130