10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

I can’t help noticing that you’ve just posted an angry story about Cecil the Lion on your timeline. And that lions are really cute. Cecil the Lion reached millions, and it exploded all over my social media in a way few conservation stories do (even with my social media heavily biased towards conservation).

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. Animals suffer when killed. Who wiped out the wolves and mountain lions?

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New York Times New York Mountain Lions Deer 40

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. If she’d been left alone, she would have fallen prey to a lion or other predator. If Babyl lagged, some would wait for her.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Forget lions, tigers, and bears – if Internet listicles are to be believed, all of Oz is full of crocodiles, sharks, jellyfish, snakes, spiders – even magpies – that are dead set on killing, maiming, or injuring any humans they encounter. One of these killers even has the word “death” in its name, for crying out loud.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

There’s an imperative to get this message across to cat people who, like me, can be educated to value wild lives as much as we value the lives of our four-legged family members. It’s tribal and familial. Caring for our own is an element of survival.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 211

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2015

Above the gardens a wheedling just fledged Gymnogene begged fro food from its long suffering parent. Mousebirds are a uniquely African family and they really brought it home to me that I was back in Africa after a decade. It was perhaps unsurprising that the lake at the end of the garden attracted the lion’s share of the birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2018

Anyone who has set foot in an Irish pub at any point in the last several decades has undoubtedly seen these vintage ads featuring a colorful and clownish menagerie of bears, sea lions, turtles, kangaroos, crocodiles, lions, and many birds – including the famous Guinness toucans. They thought it would be vulgar.

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Campaign Sea Lions Lions Kangaroos 101