10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Birkhead rightly credits Yapp and his obsessive research for a lot of what we know about medieval falconry, but it’s not clear why he needs to describe the scholar’s notorious curmudgeonly personality or his sad old age. Beagle , pt.

Dissection 209

Dissection Birds Research Europe 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

He collected 136 individuals found laying around after the storm, and carefully measured them. This was proposed as an example of what we now call “stabilizing selection” … variation is constantly introduced into populations, but every now and then “selective forces” culls the variation out. because of collisions with vehicles.

Killing 189

Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 189

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”

Wildlife 232

Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 232

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). However, the above rationalization does not directly address the issue of contributing to the unnecessary killing of a conscious sentient being.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40