Critter News

JANUARY 8, 2009

This is a new blog I came across called Paws4Life, The Reality of What Humans do. This post has three graphic pictures of a baby elephant allegedly being "trained" for the entertainment industry. Tags: animal cruelty entertainment elephants. I'm thinking it's India?

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Reddit Animals

JANUARY 4, 2023

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Reddit Animals

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Look I keep hearing humans are horrible when we are the few people to actually punish wrong doyers. Elephants mourn the dead, and any animal we domesicated arent going to kill us or each other hopefully. But we arent exactly the only one to not be nice.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. Here is one: when taking photos of elephants, an 800 mm tele lens is not the best equipment. Yes, we have them in Shanghai as well.

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Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 27, 2020

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2020

As we humans are animals, like birds are, it often seems to make more sense to me to assume that their and our drivers are similar, not different. Of course, we humans tend to give slightly elevated terms to our motives – but that does not generally mean that they are really different from those of other animals. Birds, maybe?

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 30, 2023

Elephants can communicate via vibrations, they have these fatty pads within their feet which is also what allows them to walk quietly, these pads can easily pick up vibrations. " • Baluga Whales can also mimic voices, whilst on the topic of mimicry a Baluga often toyed with humans by saying "Out!"

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Reddit Animals

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 24, 2023

Monkeys, Crows, Octopi and Elephants are the obvious answers but which one is the best for taking our job? Or maybe you are a bit more creative and know a diffrent animal that could have a human-like society? ​ Which one would you WANT to win and what do you think WOULD win? Regardless of you answer I will argue against you.

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Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 30, 2021

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2015

2 – Inspite of being a hardy species by nature, a trait formed over millions of years of having to make a living where elephant and lion come to drink, they will indeed and on rare occasions escape human presence by taking off and flying away from an observer. Like old-growth forests along rivers of the Florida panhandle.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2019

Just imagine a family excursion to Yellowstone to photograph grazing herds of elephants – equally wrong. And the only birds known to actually attack humans, not just try to scare them with screeching and low flights, but to establish a full contact in protection of their offspring, were owls. Yet, something was wrong with that picture.

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Reddit Animals

JUNE 30, 2022

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2015

Shot an elephant. But we mustn’t let go of our humanity or forget the humanity of the people we disagree with. To quote Jon’s ending: Maybe there’s two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

In some ways the the flowering of the antelopes as an evolutionary group mirrors our own story, as they benefited and spread widely as the world’s forests gave way to savannah and plains, just like humans. With an elephant for scale.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

Ian says, regarding " Veterinarians Train Sealers to Kill Humanely, " that "veterinarians very often do not care about animals but rather are more like auto mechanics who are providing a service for humans (that service may be to save an animal or kill an animal, etc)." There is an elephant who deperately needs our help.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

In this week's podcast ending February 6, 2010: **Willet Dairy the subject of a Mercy for Animals undercover investigation suspends a worker shown abusing cows; **The Humane Society applauds the Allergan Corporation for progress on the replacement of animal subjects in Botox testing; **PETA files a lawsuit to free Lucy the elephant from the Edmonton (..)

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Critter News

AUGUST 16, 2008

War and chaos is bad for everyone, human and non-human. In Zimbabwe, activists claim impoverished Zimbabweans are killing elephants and eating them. Out-of-control poaching is apparently wiping out all sort of wildlife, including hippos.

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Critter News

AUGUST 23, 2009

I've been reading a lot about threatened elephants and primate populations in Africa and wondered about lions. One rarely hears about how they are doing. But, unfortunately, they are in trouble too. This article talks about the specific situation in Kenya. The storyline is all too familiar.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

National Geographic Channel’s upcoming show, Unlikely Animal Friends, will bring you stories about Christian the Lion and his humans, a baby hippo and a giant tortoise, a lioness and a baby oryx, an orangutan and a hound dog and more! An elephant holds vigil for a sick dog. UNLIKELY ANIMAL FRIENDS.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 19, 2016

"There is no longer dispute among serious scientists that humans aren’t the only animals who have the capacity to suffer physically and mentally. Elephants, great apes, orcas, dogs, cats, and many other animals can experience depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and compulsive disorders.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. Empathy Among Elephants.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. Cattle Egret has been introduced by humans to Hawaii and the Seychelles. Other species have certainly expanded their ranges, but never in such a rapid and global scale.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

In November 2008, a virus killed a 15-month-old Asian elephant calf named Malti. She had been showing symptoms of the potentially lethal elephant herpesvirus, which leads to internal bleeding and heart failure. In May 2008, 41 of the 43 rays at the Calgary Zoo’s 37,000-litre touch-tank died.

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Critter News

JANUARY 1, 2010

Some of the damage was caused by humans who shot, clubbed or threw so-called seal bombs at the mammals. Even though it has been a record year for sick harbor seals, sea lions and elephant seals, experts say it could get much worse. The explosives are tossed into the water to scare away seals from fishing areas.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. Meanwhile, I would love to be able to have some kind of law against human beings producing/reproducing more than one person per person.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The gulls that spent months attacking any human on the place are content to loaf around and ignore you. It was the start of the shark season, which meant I saw my first Great White Shark attacks on Northern Elephant Seals , but it was also the best season for whales.

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Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

" Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals ," By Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, is the most recent (for me) book that debunks myths about the differences between human and nonhuman animals. Despite some shared evolutionary history, wolf morality is different from human morality and also from elephant morality and chimpanzee morality" (19).

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Masson tells Benjy's story--and Benjy stories--while explaining his theory about the mutual domestication of dogs and humans. You may know that dog/human coevolution has been a popular topic in the past decade, and if so, this might help: Masson "takes E. The point is that, as Chapter 3 is titled, "Dogs Make Us Human."

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A slightly more surprising threat for the vultures comes from elephants. Elephants destroy the trees the vultures live and nest in. Vultures, therefore, tend not to nest in areas with high elephant populations ( source ). Maybe the bird thinks this will drive the elephants away?

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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. Make up your mind, Ringer!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

After one 3 year stint, they left with 131,405 specimens including birds, mammals, reptiles, plants and even human remains (which were only recently repatriated for burial in Africa!) The famous Verreaux family who made several expeditions into the province through the 1820’s and 1830’s procuring specimens for rich collectors.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

About the Green-winged Pytilia , the HBW entry includes the harrowing “Popular cagebird, large numbers of which are captured and exported; mortality during shipment high” Humanity can be a scarce resource in humankind. The bird … … and the dung provider. With Red-billed Quelea.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2014

First off, it seems that New Zealand’s two iconic families of ratites, large flightless southern birds that includes emus, rhea, ostriches, cassowaries and the extinct elephant birds, are not particularly closely related. New Zealand Sea Lion by Karora (Creative Commons).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

However, the Stresemann’s Bristlefront is one of those birds that is simply enigmatic and rare and recently discovered, with many aspects of its life history unknown to humanity. Duncan Wright would really like to see anything in Brazil but he would especially like to see a Kinglet Calyptura. I thought that was clever.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

And human psychology says that humans are far more social than rational creatures. And that means for the animal rights movement: Social entities like compassion, empathy and suffering are very important factors to motivate humans to change their behaviour. None of these things will happen without targeted campaigns.

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