10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 266

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

Pink Pigeons were featured on episode four of the second season of The Zoo , the excellent television series about The Bronx Zoo,* and their story was disturbing. This description appears to be an overstatement though, because we learn by the end of the episode that The Stud and Serendipity have not produced one viable egg.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 102

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

For example, the Brown Honeyeater visits more than 300 different flowers. The species was bred at the zoo of Memphis, Tennesee ( source ). ” It might be better to adopt a random male teenager right away. One distinction is that birds in Australia are much more important as pollinators of flowers than elsewhere.

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Wisdom is not charging people extra to see your reconstituted Jurassic Park style dinosaur zoo when all you’ve got is a barn full of chickens. For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”. Therefore, humans are fish with feet, right? So, here’s the thing. Think about it.

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Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 142

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. Serves the bird right for not living close to European ornithologists. For example , constructing a nest took 18 to 83 days in one study, with an average of 57 days – the quickest thus needed less than a quarter of the time required by the slowest. Red-billed Firefinch.

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South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 193

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We have photographs and newspaper obituaries of Martha, the last living Passenger Pigeon, who died after a lifetime in captivity, mostly in the Cincinnati Zoo. The chapter on Martha, for example, just shows a close-up of her stuff body–not the whole body, the torso and tail–against an almost-black background. What a horror!

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 161