Reddit Animals
APRIL 16, 2023
Elephants are one of the most fascinating creatures on the planet, renowned for their incredible memory and emotional intelligence. In this article, we'll explore the fascinating research on elephant self-awareness, how it's been tested, and what it tells us about their amazing minds. What is Self-Awareness?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2023
They look crap but presumably offer some protection for the chicks, though not from each other (see the murderous activities within the nests in my previous post ). 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.
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4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 26, 2011
American Humane Association has been protecting children and animals since 1877. This national nonprofit seeks to build a more caring, compassionate world through groundbreaking research, education, training and services that span a wide network of organizations, agencies and businesses. About American Humane Association.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. We simply refuse to squee. Some people love books like that. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. As they say, the relationship is complicated.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2018
The skins were invaluable tools for ornithological, ecological, environmental research. Or, to keep the priceless feathers hidden away in drawers, protected in small plastic bags, prized in secret. The hope was that they would be recovered with the tags attached. Photograph used in image section of The Feather Thief.
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