10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

To civilians who may have been puzzled by the wildlife crowd’s tossed-off references to peefas, modos or mice cubes, here is a beginner’s guide to Rehabberspeak. Fried rehabbers become emotional in ways that make perfect sense to us, but not necessarily to anyone else. Here’s an example.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

But I found that if my goal was for my message to be received, I had to judiciously use accurate terms because there was an intense emotional reaction to them that prevented the message from being received intact, or unadulterated by the emotional baggage. Put simply, many people just can't handle the truth--or too much of it at once.

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Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2012

-Amy Clampitt in “A Hermit Thrush” Not only are their songs of superior quality, but the setting of beautiful parks, clear lakes, and sparkling streams combine with the music to give it an emotional quality that could not prevail under more prosaic surroundings. Surely then, if ever, one listens to the music of the stars.

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New York United States Breeding Emotional 172

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

She engages in a borderline emotional affair with J.K.’s It wasn’t like he was ever making an effort to be there for them, so why should they do it for him? Karen is a pious smug-married type who joins a local birding club when her home-schooled ten-year-old son develops an obsession with listing and bird photography.

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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.

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Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

Just to be clear, this book deals with the nonhuman animals who are most like us: social vertebrates, and specifically social mammals (and there are a handful of references to cetaceans who behave similarly). But as the frequently-invoked Darwin would say, those differences are of degree, not kind.

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Morals Mammals Humane Emotional 100

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

He was drawn to their innocence, and their pure emotions. Please refer to the finished book for accuracy. We both loved them, but it was Peter who seemed to communicate with the animals on a deeper level than anyone else we knew. The above excerpt is a digitally scanned reproduction of text from print.

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Dogs Puppies Iraq Pets 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

Both McWillam and Hammer express mixed emotions about Lendrum–they abhor his actions but admire his talents–they stress his climbing abilities but he’s obviously also skilled at finding the nests–and his bonhomie fabrications, even the most ridiculous lie is given repeatedly and confidently.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 200

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Engber writes of experimenting on cats and on the "furtive language" vivisectionists use to decrease the emotional impact of what they do. Authors who referred to their animals by given names were instructed to use a string of letters and numbers instead."

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

And as usual, the name seems to refer exclusively to the male of the species. Of the three basic online sources I use for general species information (HBW, eBird, Wikipedia), eBird seems to be the one most prone to emotions. A bit unfair as the female looks rather elegant herself.). like sharpened ballpoint pens. she says it hurts.

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