10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

I’ll never forget my introduction to the mammals of Kruger National Park, South Africa. This is the thing—no matter how devoted you are to birds and birding, once you get to Africa, you can’t resist the mammals. This means you need to pack a mammal guide in addition to your bird guide. Believe me, I tried.

Rhinos 245

Rhinos Mammals Animal White Rhinos 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

And for rodents and reptiles as well. Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. billion mammals annually. Mammals cats Invasive Species Week' Let me tell you this: They are. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

The White’s Thrush will keep pretending to be a reptile. Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

New Zealand has been the recipient of a higher than average number of introduced species, in particular a range of mammals from elk to mice. This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years. This is a very serious business here in New Zealand.

Animal Rights 266

Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 266

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. People brought us a Brewer’s Blackbird nestling they’d fed hot dogs and spaghetti,” wrote Veronica Bowers. “He Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. wrote Maryjane Angelo.

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Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird). No living group of nonhuman animals--no existing species of invertebrate, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird or nonhuman mammal--is ancestral to humans. No frog, toad, or salamander ever was our forebear.

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Speciesism Apes Advocacy Salamander 100

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Cats, dogs, and other small pets are much more vulnerable than humans to dust and vapors that settle near the floor for any project that requires good ventilation like painting, sanding, or pulling up carpet, clean up thoroughly before bringing a pet home after a home improvement project. Sweep, vacuum, and dust after the project.

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Pets Dallas Mammals Suffering 100