10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” Women who like jacanas will probably also like Spotted Redshanks. But maybe that is actually a good thing.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.
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Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
The Red-flanked Bluetail is also the subject of an otherwise relatively unremarkable paper , but it uses the interesting term “autumn obesity” Maybe this Marsh Sandpiper also suffers from autumn obesity? The Eurasian Hobby was another notable raptor of the month. They can also learn phonetic categories ( source ).
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
Why can’t a baby bird just hatch out of the egg and fly away, or at least, be able to fly a little and not require weeks of constant feeding and attention? I suspect they CAN do this but just refuse to in order to steal parental investment, which is, after all, a very valuable resources. That is an oversimplification of what happens.
Animal Person
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Yet he spends time describing the miserable deaths of day-old male chicks and understands what happens in dairy production, and I assume he doesn't partake of anyone's eggs or milk. You never have to wonder if the fish on your plate had to suffer. He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." Not a single one.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2018
This species has suffered rapid population reductions across most of its range owing to the loss, degradation and fragmentation of its habitat and land-use changes in eastern Europe, says IUCN’s Red List. Yet, David, who has much more experience with bustards, isn’t convinced: “In winter, some females develop bristles, too.”.
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