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.

Animal Liberation Front 100

Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

He brings to this book an academic background in biology and horticulture and, more importantly, decades of experience developing strategies for the best backyard bird feeding practices. I understand that Carpenter is the founder of Wild Birds Unlimited, believes in his stores and its employees’ expertise, and the products they sell.

Birds 187

Birds New York City Squirrels New York 187

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

The great crush of humanity that accompanies any visit to one of these world-famous destinations has never been my cup of tea. My priorities were to have a productive bird-filled morning, and maybe run across a Short-tailed Hawk. People, and by that I mean the general population, come to Orlando typically for one reason only.

Florida 184

Florida Rattlesnake North Carolina Ducks 184

Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering. And in order to deal with all of that and remain productive and even. It is, however, a tool that has demonstrated, positive effects on the human brain. I sometimes get very angry that so few people seem to care. And I often am overcome with sadness.

Emotional 100

Emotional Vegan Ethics Suffering 100

Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

Here are some tidbits: Keith believes humans need to embrace the consumption of animal products, including beef, or else face severe and chronic health problems. Some might argue that Keith has simply become an advocate of “happy meat”—local, grass-fed, sustainably produced, and humanely raised meat. But that would be unfair.

Vegan 100

Vegan Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

My work focused on a consistently productive bald eagle nest in Kirkland, Wash., By year three, the adults were practicing the eagle equivalent of human “hover parenting.” Scientific experiments would be needed to demonstrate true cause-and-effect, but the extra attention appeared to pay off.

Eagles 202

Eagles Bald Eagle Seattle Game 202

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And if it's not, and sometimes I feel it isn't, at least I am able to return to productivity, and even visit Deb's tribute without completely breaking down. Masson tells Benjy's story--and Benjy stories--while explaining his theory about the mutual domestication of dogs and humans. This coevolution isn't a mere side-by-side existence.

Dogs 100

Dogs Pit Bulls Greyhounds Kennels 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2017

Humans have evolved with binocular vision and it is unnatural and unfortunate that our spotting scopes have, with a few unimpressive exceptions, left us stuck with an inferior monocular view. Some are related to my experience using the BTX and some are from the product specs.

Austria 201

Austria Rights Eagles Birds 201

Animal Person

JANUARY 5, 2010

Here's my recommendation as someone with six years of experience, not as a veterinarian : Insulin for humans (Humulin N/NPH) is just fine for most dogs, plus it's synthethic and more in line with veganism--animal cells are used in the production of Vetsulin. Supply is limited.

Greyhounds 100

Greyhounds Vet Cats Dogs 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical. People believe one thing and do another.

Vegan 100

Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY.

2014 209

2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 209

Animal Person

JULY 21, 2009

Oh, the humanity! Vegans are people who don't eat any animal products, and that includes foods that have been processed with sugar that is made with bone char. It's probably more powerful if you were just there and have something to say about your "Dining Experience" (they ask which franchise and at what time you visited).

Vegan 100

Vegan Vegetarian PETA Chickens 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

It is predominantly a wetland bird and most productive larger wetlands and lakes of Africa will support a population of these large, hulking birds that hang around the shallows searching for fish, waterbird nestlings and anything else remotely edible.

Africa 249

Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 249

Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

," Andrew Revkin explores the brave new world of growing meat cultures in vitro as a more humane and possibly more environmentally friendly way of producing meat. In his post, Revkin cites Jesse Ausubel, Director of the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University. I conclude with a challenge. Don't watch it at all.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Industry Meat Industry 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

Lacto-Ovo 40

Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.

Delaware 190

Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 190

Animal Person

JULY 21, 2010

As you may know, Vetsulin has been discontinued and diabetic animals are being transitioned to Humulin N (or a similar human insulin appropriate for dogs and some cats) or Lantus/glargine (for cats). " For me, the problem was that the product was too weak. My experience, because I test frequently, was relatively uneventful.

Vet 100

Vet Emotional Greyhounds Cats 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

There are a lot of other large Galliforme birds around the world, and before the Spanish were busy conquering the New World, one of these, from Central Asia most likely, was already being imported as a food product and as live birds into Europe. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. Kiva 78(1):37–60. Reitz, Elizabeth.

Turkey 221

Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 221

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Reading thousand-word long posts in black type on a plain white screen with nothing interesting to look at isn't exactly a satisfying sensory experience. However, it wasn't honest of me to promote such products because my goal, after all, is for us to not use animals. People are lazy and want to be entertained. So I failed.

Vegan 100

Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For those of us with the great good fortune to bird in Latin America, or other less-studied biological regions, my experience suggests that we are much more likely to benefit from the new species created by such splits. I have never seen a “Brown-throated ” House Wren near human settlements.

San Diego 198

San Diego San Francisco Mexico Baltimore 198

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This visual marking of who’s in charge (and who’s not) helps reduce aggressive actions within the flock during winter, so the sparrows’ energy can be used more productively for finding food and watching out for predators. Because, whether our future winters are warmer or colder, we want to survive them with our birds.

Research 187

Research Birds Hoarding Sweden 187

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans. Hence, the experiment was created: a plot was fenced off to keep the animals away and now willow saplings did survive being submerged for half a year. I do have experience with this species from Bodrum, Turkey; it is daring, bold and cocky, and is impossible to forget.

Greece 203

Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 203

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

In my earlier post "Children and Heart Disease" available here , I noted that, in the seventh and final edition of Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: A Handbook for Parents of the Developing Child from Birth to Adolescence , Dr. Benjamin Spock no longer recommends feeding animal products to children after two years of age. The answer is "Yes."

Animal 40

Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

The longer Introduction lists and briefly summarizes topics covered in the Portfolio (evolution feathers, coloration, variation, senses, movement, physiology, migration, food and foraging, survival, social behavior, birds and humans, threats). The book is a little pricey, the cost of a quality product with thick paper and outstanding inking.

2020 264

2020 Birds Groups North America 264

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals. How might one defend premise (6)?

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Ethics Lacto-Ovo 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2011

The modal bird song is a song, but not all ‘songs’ are song-like, in the sense that we expect song to come out of the ‘mouth’ (bill) and to consist of modulated air currents (like human voice). Drawing of bower birds from Darwin’s 1871 volume on sexual selection. The top two are individuals with normal song.

Zebras 264

Zebras Birds Humane Raised 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The four authors, themselves field ornithologists, conservationists, birders, and writers with years of experience in southeast Asia, researched scientific studies ranging from early 19th-century descriptions of the birds of Java to the latest phylogenomic studies. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago?

Indonesia 146

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 146

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2011

Our visit had two main purposes, one was to experience the exotic biodiversity of the lowland Choco forest and its birds, and the other was to gauge the state of conservation in this area that has been highly criticized due to the deforestation caused by a the logging company Botrosa.

Monkeys 178

Monkeys Birds Farming Woodpeckers 178

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

So sorry, but this is a necessary part of our thought experiment!) Let’s do another thought experiment. First, I set the dial to produce the kind of high energy radioactive radiation stuff that would be emitted by an atomic bomb, and calibrate it to dose you (sorry, but this is necessary for our thought experiment!)

Mammals 255

Mammals Birds Fish Cooking 255

Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

I'm not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. Buying dairy products supports them. That doesn't mean that 99% of dairy products are from family farms , as the average number of cows on each family farm is just over 100.

Family 100

Family Factory Farm Factory Farming Cows 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. Humans don’t share merely a similar capacity for vocal learning with hummingbirds, we share share similar brain machinery , and that brain machinery is regulated by similar genes , genes not shared by hummingbirds’ closest relatives, nor by ours.

Family 279

Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

b) Stop eating animal products. (c) e) Don’t purchase cosmetics or personal care products that were tested on animals when equally effective cruelty-free products are available. (f) f) Don’t purchase cosmetics or personal care products that contain animal ingredients. (g) A list of Humane Charities is available here.

Rights 40

Rights Animal Cruelty Vegan Cruelty 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

b) Stop eating animal products. (c) e) Don’t purchase cosmetics or personal care products that were tested on animals when equally effective cruelty-free products are available. (f) f) Don’t purchase cosmetics or personal care products that contain animal ingredients. (g) A list of Humane Charities is available here.

2007 40

2007 Rights Animal Cruelty Cruelty 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. The photograph is a technological product, of course, the result of many photographic images combined. I look forward to hearing about your experiences with the Crossley ID Guides, both for Eastern Birds and Raptors.

North America 235

North America Bald Eagle Falcons Owls 235

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Darwin Day is February 12th, and for an early celebration I thought I’d take a look at a book that rethinks the way Darwin, and we, think about evolution—a very specific part of evolution, the way beautiful features and behavior have developed amongst birds and, by extension, amongst humans.

Ducks 101

Ducks Research Animal Stud 101

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace. Running time: 12 Minutes.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40