10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Sanderling: A bird with strong work ethics. Tiger Shrike. The pair of Brown Crakes is still around. Not sure if they are breeding but certainly they are trying, though I am not fully convinced of their competence. Oriental Magpie-Robin. A juvenile, with rufous wing edgings that will be gone once the bird leaves kindergarden.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2023
A kingfisher with a somewhat deficient work ethic, I guess. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. Or speluncaphobia? The Stork-billed Kingfisher is much bigger and easier to see. I guess he should have stuck with the substantially less dangerous trogons.
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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. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. The elitist “animal-rights” zealots hate to admit this. But most zoos and circuses today, including ours, are delicately sensitive to animal well-being.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2014
I will equally recommend a guide who finds the target bird and the one who does everything within birding ethics to find it and fails. Still, I do remember a long drop loo in one national park in central India, with an inscription: “There are no guarantees that you will see the tiger. I remember one guide in the south of Africa.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 18, 2014
Our elected officials must recognize that beating elephants with bullhooks—heavy batons with a sharp metal hook on the end that can tear elephants’ skin—and whipping tigers until they cringe and cower, are ethically indefensible.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 2, 2008
To the Editor: Re “ Tiger on the Loose: Can It Happen Here? ” (news article, Dec. 27): It’s little wonder that Tatiana, the tiger that escaped from the San Francisco Zoo, longed for her freedom. Tigers are designed by nature to roam far and wide, hunt, claim territory and seek out mates. Jennifer O’Connor Norfolk, Va.,
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
Two tigers confined to a cage gave 'freedom' from enemies. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. If fishers truly wished to revitalize fish populations, they would leave them alone. Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). Chance is so close! Please consider a gift.
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