Animal Person

JUNE 26, 2009

We humans have decided that, for a combination of reasons that are important to us, cats are worthy of our respect. I can't think of another animal so hated by humans that they have actually created an industry to publicize their hatred and their wish to hurt and kill them. We don't say we hate cows. In fact we say we love them.

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Cats Dissection Cougars Pigs 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. Its only black plumage is a bold stripe that runs across the bird’s face” Scientific research has found that these ducks get together more closely if you feed them with bread.

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Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 217

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2022

Still, most of the birds were locals, including Fulvous Whistling-Ducks , Black-necked Stilts , and a lone American Avocet (still with a bit of breeding color). Definitely an adult. So I waited a respectful few days, and headed out to see if they had made it to my south-central Mexican wetlands yet. And birdy it is.

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Mexico Breeding Groups California 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics.

2011 151

2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For example, it wasn’t until this year that the Mallard, with its strongly differentiated males and females and semi-migratory habits, was definitively separated from the non-migratory Mexican Duck, in which males and females are almost identical. These are a male and a female Mexican Ducks. A male Mallard from Munich.

San Diego 170

San Diego San Francisco Mexico Baltimore 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Well that depends on several factors, the most important of which are the definitions of the terms “remote” and “endemic” My subjective thoughts on remoteness are that the term should be defined by two factors: 1. How far is the closest human settlement? How far is the closest human settlement?

Birds 198

Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 198

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

I am a human being, so I am entitled to, and I do, say that the starling is an ugly bird. The trouble is, the definition of “native habitat” is, for starlings and many other species, now quite elastic. . • The Aliens Among Us: How Invasive Species Are Transforming the Planet – and Ourselves (Leslie Anthony, Yale). • Prum, Doubleday).

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Humane Species North America Sparrows 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Plus, I mean, it’s a giant chicken-looking thing that’s actually related to ducks… with that kind of identity crisis going on, what’s not to love? Seeing that giant piebald bird with a random horn growing out of its forehead standing in an open Brazilian marsh would be a real treat.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There is also a third element, only hinted at in the opening–the environmental and scientific necessity of gathering this data to document the importance of keeping the Pacific Northwest waters healthy and uncontaminated by human elements. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds.

Fox 100

Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 2, 2006

It is chilling in its scope because it now expands the the definition of ‘animal enterprise terrorism’ to include acts that result in neither fear nor economic damages nor bodily injury. And then realize this: On November 13, 2006, the lame duck House of Representatives passed H.R.4239 That’s right.

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Extremist 2006 Laws Legislation 40