Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

However, both his perceptions and misconceptions are based on: 1) observing the work of PeTA and HSUS; and 2) the assumption that those two organizations are in the same category--"animal rights." I think he's the anti-human person full of self hatred, and this is a case of projection. For an attorney, that's awfully weak.

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Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. The excellent Indexes to English Bird Names, Scientific Bird Names, and Subjects were organized by Jennifer W.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 148

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Borneo, the authors say, is under-birded. I think we need to do something about that.

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Brunei Birds Asia China 174

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute. In some ways, this is a puzzling chapter.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 207

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 1, 2009

Tails Of Aloha is an all volunteer Animal Assisted Therapy Organization, located on Oahu in the state of Hawaii, with animals on all of the major Hawaiian Islands. What is the mission of your organization? How is your organization run? What is the one thing that people could do to help your organization the most?

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Hawaii Pets Horses Groups 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. A good part of The Glitter in the Green is devoted to the history of how hummingbirds have been treated and depicted and valued or not valued by human beings.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

My original blogroll included people/organizations that informed my journey and it brought me much criticism and labeled me a "new welfarist" and brought me all kinds of grief. Films, blogs, books, e-zines, sanctuaries, protests, promotion of adoption (of humans and nonhumans!). Every blogger's goal is to have their blog read, right?

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Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. Recent studies show that many island species went extinct before anyone managed to document their existence. The islands of the Caribbean are no exception. It is depressing and angering and just wrong.

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 243

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 275

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens. After all, what was thought as its habitat was heavily deteriorated and converted to agriculture as the human population grew. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 268

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

Giving organisms standard names allowed precise communication across cultures and languages. Gray Jay : This drab but charismatic species demonstrates that the more a bird interacts with humans, the more colloquial names it will tend to pick up. These are just a handful of the better-documented vernacular names.

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Hunters Falcons Ducks Montana 180

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This has been looked at in other studies for ectotherms (the most obvious sorts of animals to be affected since they get their heat from ambient conditions) and elderly humans. This is the first study of this kind on birds, or that would relate directly to wild endotherms (the elderly humans do not live in the wild!).

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Killing Zebras Birds Research 204

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2016

FWS must coordinate with state and local governments, as well as other federal agencies, Indian Tribal Governments, and nonprofit organizations. These are not short breezy documents intended for pleasure reading. Chapter 5 (“Human Environment”) includes cultural resources, facilities, and wildlife-dependent public uses.

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Wildlife Oregon Endangered Species Portland 113

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Some of his finds are the first documented records of the bird in that area or the first decent photograph of a little-known species. The books work best when the birding is coupled with the human element. If it were just the birds, I’d grab my bins and be on the next plane to Asia or Africa.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 191

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Not only are they killed in cruel ways, but it is well documented that they are raised in ways that cause them great discomfort and agony. Becoming a vegetarian is the most practical and effective step one can take towards [sic; kbj] ending both the killing of non-human [sic; kbj] animals and the infliction of suffering upon them.

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Vegetarian Morals Protest Protesting 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

This range of illustration continues throughout the 24 plates, reflecting, I assume, what has been documented and not documented for each species and the degree of difference between sexes and amongst subspecies. Organization. This is particularly true when it comes to sorting out subspecies.

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Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 139

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Australia is a vast country with a very small human population, which mostly clings to the edge of the continent. Even the first explorers to Australia documented there was a risk of extinction of birds and animals into the future and subsequently decided to collect as many specimens as possible! It is what drives evolution.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

I particularly liked the section on Anatomy and Morphology, which explains the anatomical adaptations that enable woodpeckers to do the things they do, like drum at rates that would explode human skulls. I say almost-comprehensive because the bibliography is heavily tilted towards scientific literature.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 240