Critter News
OCTOBER 24, 2009
Plus, are mice comparable to kids (although I would prefer mice subjects to primates who are so much more sensitive)? However, it involved exposing rats to chemicals at levels that humans are usually not exposed to. Whether intentionally or not, the title of the article catches the frivolity of the research."Don't
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2013
It can and will live near most any body of water with an adequate supply of fish — fresh or brackish, wild or crowded with human activity. As such success suggests, it is adaptable, taking readily to artificial nest platforms, coping well with most human developments save DDT and mercury pollution. Adaptation has its privileges!
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
So, for example, humans are apes. Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.
Reddit Animals
MAY 21, 2023
Jungle leopards are in general larger than their savanna cousins, but they are nevertheless just about the same size as a human. Gorillas and chimps can throw open handed slaps, slam with their arms, bite, toss, and many other things, but throw a punch as a human can they cannot do. While gorillas can certainly get bigger than 127.5
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2016
In humans, adults (probably mainly mothers) do this thing called “motherese” which is talking in a way one would normally not talk to another adult, to a baby. Jon Sakata, a professor of neurobiology at McGill, says that songbirds learn vocalizations like humans learn speech. Salmón, J. Nilsson, A. Nord, and S. Here’s the problem.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds. But that’s another story. Just eat the food.
Animal Person
APRIL 14, 2009
There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the Animal Liberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans.
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