Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics mice medical research.

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JUNE 1, 2021

These run the range from birds like Barnacle Goose and Little Egret, which are rare but do show up in North America every few years (actually, lately it’s been every year) to birds whose sightings in North America are so few that they’re legendary–Western Reef-Heron and Corn Crake are two examples. This is not unusual.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 1, 2010

Elsewhere in this blog (see here , here , and here ), I have written about ethical synergy , the regularly observed phenomenon that simultaneously showing respect for persons (including oneself), animals, and the environment typically benefits all three groups (including oneself).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Some birds are put next to each other to aid in the identification process, for example, falcons follow hawks. ” (Some titles are still available; A Birder’s Guide to Southeastern Arizona, for example, was updated as recently as 2018.). So, expect to find warblers before sparrows if you are browsing.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Here is an example of one of the 36 plates, presenting Belted Kingfisher (ABA Bird of the Year!) References to plate numbers (in the Plates section) and photograph numbers (in a Photo Gallery) are also placed prominently next to species name. Not all species accounts have corresponding plates or photographs.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Cleaning brushes, for example. Technique is often included in the bird image commentary; to paint the Greater Roadrunner, for example, Hashimoto notes that she did the eyes and beak last, and then added the background colors when the bird portrait was complete. Isn’t it time consuming?).

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

Reptiles that are not treated ethically simply do not make good pets. Many of these changes (loss of legs, different type of locomotion, highly modified skull, loss of eyelids, ambush predator hunting strategy) have caused snakes to appear less "anthropomorphic" than lizards or turtles for example.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Infected rats, for example, no longer shun cat urine but find it an aphrodiasic. Marra and Santella are very much anti-TNR, a view that is shared by others, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), not to mention Birdchick. It’s also their role as “vectors of disease,” especially toxoplasma gondii.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. He notes that “Beginning in the 1960s, for example, conservation was dominated by non-hunters whose legacy includes key legislation such as the U.S.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

"This elephant's shocking death is another tragic example of how elephants suffer in inadequate and artificial zoo exhibits," said Catherine Doyle, elephant campaign director for the group. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals also criticized the zoo in the wake of the death.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2011

For example, a couple of weeks ago I found myself with several hours of daylight left and within ten minutes of Brigantine! I would have had to turn my ABA membership card in if I didn’t go see what birds were around the refuge, at least, I think that is in the ABA’s principles of Birding Ethics.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Many essays, especially in the later sections, end with a question, hopefully getting us to think more about questions of ethics, conservation, and the puzzles posed by nature. The sections are also labeled according to the months of the year, the idea being that the book will take us through a year of birding.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

For Western Sandpiper, for example, he notes that they “may stand a little more upright than other peeps or look a bit off balance, because their legs seem to be placed further back on the body than the Semipalmated” (p. He also has useful identification tidbits.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

If only you could make fine adjustments to the expression of existing DNA you could hatch a dinosaur, starting with, for example, a turkey. The second thing they did was to interfere with the genetic pathways in some chickens, which produced a chicken with beaky bits that were more like snouty bits found in, for example, a Alligator.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says Vancouver's Olympic organizers have the clout to convince the Canadian government to end the controversial seal hunt on the East Coast. It will be PETA's first Olympics! Let's see how far they take it.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory comes up frequently in bird literature (one example I can think of off-hand is Nick Davies’ Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature, Bloomsbury, 2015), but if you’re not familiar with its basic ideas you must read the Introduction. I wish there was more discussion of research techniques and resources.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A kingfisher with a somewhat deficient work ethic, I guess. So common that my local bird guide actually gave the species as an example of a very common bird he was still happy to see during the COVID lockdown when it showed up in his backyard. Or speluncaphobia? The Stork-billed Kingfisher is much bigger and easier to see.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. And there are ethical reasons for becoming vegetarian. Ethical synergy at work.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

They're not necessarily questioning the ethics, but the efficacy. Indeed, it often isn't even the best science: New drugs that show great promise in mice, for example, often confer zero benefit to humans, or even prove harmful. This is an excellent article that appeared in the Boston Globe last week. This is an important issue.

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

I had read one of her books and had often pointed to her company as an example of a successful marriage between ethics and business. Parent L'Oreal said the difficult economic climate hit Body Shop sales in Britain, Spain and North America. I was stunned when Anita Roddick sold the Body Shop to L'Oreal a few years ago.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Some watched their vegan friend or family member's example, and realized that vegans can be fantastically fit, high energy people who obviously enjoy what they eat. I'll be using his inspirational story as an example for my own friends and family. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. You can probably guess why.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 25, 2007

See here for one example. As many of you know, I despise PETA. It does a great deal of harm to animals. With friends like PETA, animals don't need enemies.

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Animal Person

APRIL 17, 2009

In the food arena, a great example of this would be in New York City, where the health department has banned trans fats in restaurants. And so, that would be an example where personal responsibility wouldn't get the job done but government intervention would. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

And quite frankly, I’ve seen some of the most dedicated of ethical birders get excited at finding an owl and get closer than they should. For example, the above saw-whet looks like its sleeping because that’s what owls do during the day and its eyes are closed…not exactly.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

Besides that, I teach environmental ethics courses for biology students at the university and currently I am working also on an exciting project of producing a simulation game called ecosim (primarily an education tool for students) in which the player has to fulfil conservation tasks in an interactive ecosystem (e.g. Does this sound vague?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For example, on finding gulls: Close study of gulls is not for everyone, and birders shouldn’t feel obligated to get deep into it if you prefer colorful, less-confusing, families of birds. Finding owls is the occasion to discuss the ethics of playback. And you will still be a birder. of Natural Resources and by Nate.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Here are some highlights: Mantle: "How do you respond to: Yeah, you may find something that benefits humans, but it's not worth it and it's not ethically right?" A combination of tactics will force these people to stop torturing animals, he says, and even mentions an example of a researcher who took up non-animal alternatives as a result.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

As examples, I would give the following: (1) abstaining from meat for the sake of the animals; (2) abstaining from meat for health reasons; (3) eating meat because one believes (with, say, Roger Scruton) that doing so redounds to the benefit of the animals themselves; (4) eating meat because one likes the taste.

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Animal Person

JULY 14, 2009

We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. [Capitalism] redefines us from citizens to consumers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

Here are the basic contents for each state guide: a flexibound cover, the ABA Mission Statement and Code of Ethics (I like that this is the first thing you see when you start perusing the books), Foreward by Jeffrey A. From the ABA Field Guide to Birds of Colorado. This practice also prevents the guide from quickly becoming outdated.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

Most of Waldman’s Introduction, for example, is based on five photographs and drawings illustrating random, perhaps representational, examples of how New Yorkers relate to nature in the past (a shark is killed in the Gowanus Canal in 1950) and the present (the fight to re-install the nest of my spark bird, Pale Male).

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Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

In the eighteenth century, for example, grammarians tried to stamp out the use of "wrote" as the past tense of "write." Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. Here's a hint from the authors: In the end, it's not the grammarians and usage experts who decide what's right. They considered "writ" or "writt" the only correct forms.

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Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

Furthermore, "We need to be careful about language and remember that [for example] altruism has a specific meaning within biology and isn't synonymous with morality" (82). Tags: Books Ethics Language. [T]hey may be acting independently and simultaneously, without any cognitive decision to work together" (64).

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2008

Some suspicion may arise at this point that the land ethic is ultimately grounded in human interests, not in those of nonhuman natural entities. The question of ultimate value is a very sticky one for environmental as well as for all ethics and cannot be fully addressed here.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

For example, if you're looking for posts on bullfighting, type that word into the box and you'll get a list. I want to express my gratitude to everyone who has linked to this blog, which is the first item listed in a Google search of "animal ethics." One more thing.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

But by presenting that example to the reader, the author positions herself to then present an alternative that is worlds better by comparison. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Bev Eggleston EcoFriendly Foods Gourmet magazine happy meat Humane slaughter Temple Grandin. It is murder. Not eating them.

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