4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

He was adopted out, but then quickly returned due to his poor psychological state. They are perfect for a short read, with loads of great little stories that will touch your heart, make you laugh, and of course, make you want to adopt your own dog (hopefully)! Overweight and terrified, he simply cowered in the back of his crate.

Puppy Mills 100

Puppy Mills Boston Rescue Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This is something not seen in very young children but then typically develops and becomes observable and testable by psychology graduate students who have done innumerable studies on it. And most recently, a team of researchers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Austria have demonstrated that New Caledonian Crows understand UCAs.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Research 221

Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

He then says he goes to "exceptional lengths" to make ensure the physical and psychological welfare of the primates he uses, "except when it's absolutely necessary" to harm them. Of course, Mantle says, "but though they are high-level mammals, they're not humans."

Animal Liberation Front 100

Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

These changes are, of course, also reflected in the second edition of The Sibley Guide to Birds (though only up to the 54th supplement, 2013), but to dedicated users of the regional editions, there is going to be a learning curve in knowing where to open the book up to without using the index. This means that loons are no longer first!

North America 152

North America 2003 Birds America 152

Animal Ethics

APRIL 18, 2007

She specializes in Environmental Ethics, Human-Animal Ethics, and Moral Psychology. Jenni is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California, where she has taught for the past 18 years.

Illinois 40

Illinois Animal Ethics Ethics Morals 40

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

A team led by cognitive scientist Josef Topál of the Research Institute for Psychology in Hungary recently ran an experiment to study how 10-month-old babies pay attention to people. The children, of course, picked the right cup–no surprise since they saw the toy being hidden.

Wolves 100

Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2012

Or, as Dunning and Kruger wrote when they published their results in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology : People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. Fascinating, no? But what, I can hear 10,000 Birds readers asking, does this have to do with birding?

Bald Eagle 174

Bald Eagle Eagles Psychology Birds 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2018

We were picked up at the Christchurch airport by our family friend, Neville Blampied, who as it turns out, is an amazing local bird guide, disguising himself as a Professor of Psychology at the University of Canterbury.

New Zealand 100

New Zealand Los Angeles Seattle Parrots 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2012

The crux of nature’s revenge on our dreadful protagonists is that they get lost, and stay lost, leaving them psychologically broken and at the mercy of a world so outside their comfort zone that they bought ten thousand dollars worth of camping equipment to cope with it for three days. It was sort of a game, getting lost in there.

Possums 116

Possums Cows Psychology Jamaica 116

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. The photograph is a technological product, of course, the result of many photographic images combined. And, a shorebird is not the image leading off the introduction to The Colbert Report. It’s a Bald Eagle, a hawk.

North America 204

North America Bald Eagle Falcons Owls 204

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

He requests that after his death his wife prepare a lavish dinner with him as the main course. But it might also be possible to develop animals that periodically shed their legs and wanted to have their shed legs eaten, animals whose psychological health and well-being depended on such eating. Would these animals also be exploited?

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40