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Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

10,000 Birds

which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. For instance, assume (and I will NOT stand by this number, it is just one I’ve heard here and there) that kitty cats in America kill 50,000,000 birds a year. These cats come along with farms.

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Miracle Babies; Pandas and Leopards

4 The Love Of Animals

And on the banks of the Amazon in Brazil, a tamarin expert works to save the tiny primates, which are struggling to survive as bulldozers wipe out their forest homes to make way for new development. The rarest big cat on earth, the Amur leopard, is on the brink of disappearing forever. Miracle Babies: Leopard Love.

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After the recent Gorilla vs Grizzly thread I think this is needed: Gorilla myth busting

Reddit Animals

Toddler incident Dutch woman incident This shows an issue gorillas and many primates have, due to not being predators by nature, they don't actually know where to strike to kill something. Furthermore, we have two gorilla maulings on record. Both victims survived, the first one being a toddler.

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Ocean Advocacy and Animal Rights

Critter News

I think that ocean life, with the exception of mammals, are often overlooked because they are not the sentient, communicating species that we identify with, like primates, dogs, cats, etc. If you are eating a fish, you are still eating a living thing. But I may not find one.

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Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money

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Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. President Obama promised to eliminate wasteful government spending; funding for animal research is one area that is overdue for reform. Please do not advertise to sell your pets.

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

Critter News

They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.). There was a poster in the lunch room with four cute animals (a dog, cat, rabbit and something else.) It was a rather grim place.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

10,000 Birds

Even among our primate relatives, whoa are generally very smart, “Theory of Mind” is found in only a few species. If the crows can distinguish between UCA and HCA, they should treat UCA related events with caution, but be more indifferent to events caused by a HCA, unless of course the HCA is a cat.

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