10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. Kooyman and Jim Mastro, with a Foreword by Jessica Ulrika Meir University of Chicago Press, Nov. And that may be o.k.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 165

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The species is also susceptible to the effects of commercial exploitation of marine benthic organisms and shellfish, and is threatened by drowning in fishing nets. We, humans, seem to be quite hostile neighbours to other life forms around us. The IUCN/BirdLife International Red List). Greater Spotted Eagle Clanga clanga.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

The Magic Hedge in Chicago, of course. Thinking, say, about the Ramble and its contested history, its constructed underpinnings, its role as both a facsimile and the real thing, a pocket-edition of something valued by a few landscape architects and their patrons now treasured and vital to so many, both human and avian.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2008

Pharmaceutically-laced water isn't just a problem for humans. For example, exposure to these substances is negatively impacting the reproductive abilities of some fish species, threatening their extinction. Closer to home, the AP story reports that: fish collected in waterways near or in Chicago; West Chester, Pa.;

Species 40

Species Dallas Phoenix Unwanted 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman’s suggestion that the findings do not apply to smaller farms, the United Nations and the University of Chicago reports demonstrate the inefficiency of beef “production” because a cow must be fed to convert grass or grain calories into protein before a human can consume even “humane” or grass-fed beef.

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