10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not. The images tie directly to the text.

Dissection 209

Dissection Birds Research Europe 209

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2018

There is a cat curfew for domestic animals in some states and a cull has been instigated to try to reduce the number of feral felines, currently estimated at 2 million. Keep the feeders above 6 feet where possible and away from any raised surfaces which the cats may use as a launch pad.

Cats 114

Cats Culling Hunting Feral 114

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

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. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S. If so, the frequency of road kill should decline over time.

Killing 189

Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 189

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak. Then she tried to feed it to the remaining chicks.

Rhinoceros 124

Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 124

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). Since it would not be wrong to eat the flesh of animals raised in that manner, eating meat is not morally wrong! [As Running time: 12 Minutes.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40