Critter News

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Do elephants born outside of captivity live longer? Elephants born in European zoos die at much younger ages than those bred in protected spaces, says a new study that's adding fuel to an already fractious debate over the welfare of the animals in captivity. Tags: zoos captivity elephants.

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Critter News

APRIL 27, 2009

Lilly Tomlin is in Seattle and spoke out about the conditions of elephants at the Woodland Park Zoo on behalf of the Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN). Addressing supporters and the media at the Phinney Ridge Neighborhood Center, Tomlin said elephants in zoos across the country are suffering in confinement.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 29, 2023

G’day Im trying to find a good supplier of one of those bracelet thingys that let you track an animal and money goes towards helping them I’ve looked around a few times over the last year or so but never got anything.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 29, 2023

Don’t know if this is the right place to ask but I need a lot of different opinions. Do you think it’s right or wrong? Ive seen people hanging out with lions or walking along side elephants etc and I find it fascinating. Like no barrier between them.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Lucky him, right? Here is one: when taking photos of elephants, an 800 mm tele lens is not the best equipment. Even if – as in Borneo – the elephants are comparatively small (they are actually called Borneo pygmy elephants). Though he ended up dead anyway.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2017

The Aborigines Hairbrush , and the Elephant Cactus. And this is the bloom for the Elephant Cactus. The Elephant Cactus , puts out a white tubular flower that open from late March, until early, June, and are visited by nectar feeding bats at night and many birds during the day. This is the bloom found on the Aborigines Hairbrush.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Think of African safaris and many people will naturally envisage herds of elephants and antelope, alongside some of the largest predators in the world. Add the chance of the African animals you’d expect, Elephant , Lion , Leopard and a host of antelope, who’s mouth would not water at the prospect? My name is Ashley Boon.

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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

Helpfully, the people administering this place have highlighted the naturish aspect of this place in several ways, the most obvious being a number of life-size plastic elephants complete with movement and loud sounds every few seconds. What more can a nature lover want. Birds, maybe?

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

And they certainly have no right to use endangered species as performers. The treatment of circus elephants went on trial in federal court Wednesday with animal rights groups accusing Ringling Bros. Tags: circuses us elephants endangered species. I don't care what anyone says, I can't stand circuses.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In this week’s podcast ending February 13, 2010: **Britain’s Ministry of Defense defends its use of pigs as subjects in explosives testing; **an elephant expert argues for the closing of the elephant exhibit at the Toronto Zoo; **the State of Hawaii seeks to toughen penalties for dog fighting; **Animal rights groups protest the Canadian seal hunt in (..)

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2009

The donation is for helping Billy the elephant. million donation, courtesy of former “Price is Right” host Bob Barker. The planned future home to 23-year-old Billy the elephant, the Pachyderm Forest is a $42-million, 6-acre proposal that began in 2006, but was put on hold a month ago.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2011

He had always ignored my pointing out anyway and had continued to play with his toy elephants, and he will ignore my failure to point out anything now and continue to play with his toy elephants. To him their departure means little. But to me, their departure means a lot. Here is why.

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Animal Person

MARCH 27, 2009

The only way most of us will ever see an elephant (or a tiger or a hippo) is on the National Geographic Channel, at a circus or in a zoo. The elitist “animal-rights” zealots hate to admit this. But most zoos and circuses today, including ours, are delicately sensitive to animal well-being.

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Critter News

MARCH 25, 2009

Animal rights group PETA have condemned Michael Jackson's apparent plans to ride an elephant on stage at his forthcoming London residency. The disfigured pop star Michael Jackson has been criticized by PETA for his use of exotic animals.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2018

My first ever Gamble’s Quail were feeding right next to the picnic area, and alongside the visitors center building, I spotted a thrasher. We camped at the Elephant Butte Reservoir Campground, overlooking the lake, with the hopes of finding some more birds in the area. Right in our camp, we found Ladder-backed Woodpeckers.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

But, the anticipation of everyone else in the group was contagious, and when California birder Lori Conrad looked out the window of the plane as we started our descent and screamed, “Elephants! There are elephants down there!” And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

I've had the pleasure of seeing her in action with adults and children and I profoundly admire her vegan education and animal rights activism. There is an elephant who deperately needs our help. There have been many instances where elephants in these constant abusive situations go berserk. Thank you, Susan Hargreaves.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 19, 2016

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

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2018

In the first full day, we have seen dozens each of giraffes, zebra, warthogs, elephants, 12 rhinos, 30 hippos, 3 Cape Buffalo, crocodiles, jackals, monkeys, baboons, literally a thousand impala, and at least 10 different antelope type animals. In the same first day plus a couple of hours, my Africa bird count is at 66 species.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. This game reserve has 900 elephants – the second largest population in South Africa, after the Kruger National Park with 13,000. Nowadays, the Savannah Elephants are shorter and with smaller tusks, often without them.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Although lip service was paid to the fact that lions are endangered and a lion was poached, the language of anger was the language of animals rights. I’ve written before at length about how conservation and animal rights , while often drawing on mutual a reverence of nature, are different beasts. Not at the moment, anyway.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2015

Shot an elephant. I favor humans over ideology, but right now, the ideologues are winning, and they’re creating a stage for constant artificial high dramas where everybody’s either a magnificent hero or a sickening villain, even though we know that’s not true about our fellow humans. I think we’ve all done it.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Lanthier, a veterinarian and walrus researcher who took the helm in Calgary two years ago, says the cancellation of the polar bears exhibit might please some animal-rights extremists, but the reality is a blow to Canada's white bears. sounds like a real jerk. We have to recognize they don't live forever.".

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2014

To the Editor: Once again people associated with the animal rights group PETA ( letter , June 19) have tried to disparage the commitment circuses have for animal care and conservation. and Barnum & Bailey are dedicated to providing the very best of care for all our animals, especially the Asian elephant.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

Right: Robert McCormick, by Stephen Pearce. Unlike Darwin, who was a self-funded gentleman naturalist on board, McCormick was bound to the Beagle by his duties and was furious that a civilian passenger on board had usurped his rightful position as ship’s naturalist. (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998).

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

mikey, my stance can be seen in the posts about Project Treadstone (and if you type Project Treadstone into the Google Search box just below my half-blind, diabetic greyhound, Violet Rays, on the right, you'll get a dozen more posts).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

Jake lives in southern Florida, so he and his friends had to be interested in learning about these birds, which they saw everyday, right? I was delighted by the invitation and spent hours going through my photos, printing them out, imagining fifteen 4-year olds entranced by egrets, herons, and Burrowing Owls. In Are You My Mother?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

And for this overview, I will chose #1 and #2: Corbett and Kaziranga national parks, both in the north/north-east, right under the southern slopes of the Himalayas. Other wildlife includes Asian Elephant , Tiger , Leopard. Impressively, India has more than 60 hotspots with more than 300 species, about 20 of those even with over 350 sp.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

There are duck stories and elephant stories and pig stories, but the reason we hear about them is because they are extraordinary. Tags: Books Current Affairs Greyhound Matters Language " Jeffrey Masson "The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving animal rights dogs service dogs. But he then addresses that.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

These vast and rugged lands of savanna, hills, gorges and rivers still protect some of Ethiopia’s largest extant herds of typical African savanna game, including African Elephant, African Buffalo, Giraffe, Lion, Leopard, African Wild Dog and numerous species of grazers. Yellow-billed Stork.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 16, 2009

In my case, I suppose it would be filming the elephants caught in a sandstorm in the Okavango Delta. And you can jump on your skidoo and go over the top of a glacier and be in one of the most extraordinary wilderness areas in the whole world, you know, right in among polar bears. It’s a breathtakingly lovely place.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. This game reserve has 900 elephants – the second largest population in South Africa, after the Kruger National Park with 13,000. Nowadays, the Savannah Elephants are shorter and with smaller tusks, often without them.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

It’s when we lost the mammoths, the sabre-tooth cats, the giant ground sloths, the elephant birds, the marsupial lions, and other iconic giants. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. How many have we lost, have we never even known? What a horror! What a wrong!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

david Mar 13th, 2011 at 1:17 am Three non-sighted people stood around an elephant. Wicked, right? Make up your mind, Ringer! One, feeling the creature’s tail, said, “Ah, it’s a rope!&# Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Hat-tip to Stella.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The first surprise came, as we were driving into town, and not one, but two Scissor-tailed Flycatchers flew right across the road in front of us. This Coopers Hawk flew right up to the roof on a flood control booth, and looked at me like “ What are you doing out here” and promptly flew away. This one flew right over my head.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

If you choose to consider 1944 the year, most people were a little busy right then. And oh crap, you guys, we really have to do something about the California Condor situation right now, but what? It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now.

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