Reddit Animals

JANUARY 5, 2024

However, other human activities—like fishing and shipping—are still killing these whales. Photo: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, taken under NOAA permit 20556 submitted by /u/IFAWUK [link] [comments] Every individual matters in the fight to save them.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart. So keep that in mind.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2021

Almost completely without human infrastructure, this reserve has the largest complexes of steppe habitats in the country, making it a uniquely preserved typical Pannonian landscape. Also along the Tamis River, our next hotspot was a fish farm in the Sakule Village. Red-footed Falcon by Martin Mecnarowski/Wikimedia Commons.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Fortunately for human males, the typical courtship of humans differs from that of the Coppersmith Barbets , which the HBW describes as follows: “When the nest is ready, the male may begin courtship feeding, offering fruit to the female. I hope there are still a few species left for future scientists to analyze.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In addition to these changes in classification and distribution, there are larger issues that may play a role in the overall future of the Galápagos as a protected area; conservationists are facing increasing pressure from the tourism industry and the international fishing industry. They complement Kricher’s text.,

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. Wilderness areas are managed by one of four federal agencies: the Forest Service (FS); the National Park Service (NPS); the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS); and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Humans, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. I have to say that the pattern suits the buntings much better than humans, though, and hopefully, it is also more pleasant for them to wear. According to the HBW, they mainly eat fish. They have a lot of spare time as their fishing technique is very efficient.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I understand there are still people out there who deny human-induced climate change. Two Ospreys flew overhead, turning up again and again to fish on this small body of water. And they were clearly fishing, with some success. Perhaps those people have never had to personally experience increasingly erratic climate patterns.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

Here’s a quote about bird lungs from Britannica: “Himalayan geese have been observed not only to fly over human climbers struggling to reach the top of Mount Everest, but to honk as they do so.” Anyone with even a passing knowledge of birds knows the efficiency and delicacy of their respiratory systems.

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Reddit Animals

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Look I keep hearing humans are horrible when we are the few people to actually punish wrong doyers. Orcas play with there food, bottled nose dolhpins just rape the women that refuses, baby killing is common, and parasite somehow evolved to be in a fishes tongue. But we arent exactly the only one to not be nice.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2022

Presbycusis is age-related hearing loss in humans, but I have also discovered that birds, fish and amphibians do not experience presbycusis due to the fact that they can regenerate their cochlear sensory cells. Invariably it doesn’t take long and we find what I had already heard.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

I was out to dinner with my husband and the question just popped into my head- every human civilization has independently developed religions and I was just wondering everything we don’t know about the animal world as we can’t communicate with them. My husband thought this was an absurd thought.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). of catching extremely small fish. How efficient.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Now, Kolbert is to focus on humanity's impact on the animal world, and in particular will look at the species that are today being rendered extinct by men and women. Kolbert's task will to be show whether or not humanity – with its spiralling population, widespread habitat destruction, over-fishing and global warming – is rivalling these.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

Prior to being served an obscene amount of fried local fish for lunch, a young local church member took us out on the estuary in his panga , a small rowboat used for fishing. I had never birded this way before, and can confirm that what I had heard is true: Birds are much more tolerant of human presence when those humans are on a boat!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2021

Normally the slender, fairy-feathered shorebirds are shy and avoid the humans who encroach on their territory. But a small colony of them have made an exception for Elton Reed, who has fished off Chincoteague Island, Virginia for almost five decades. Snowy Egrets like to keep their distance.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

Nearly wiped out by human heedlessness, development, and pesticide use, under the protection of the Endangered Species Act this handsome fish eagle has made a stunning comeback, rebounding in numbers and recolonizing areas where many thought they were gone forever.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Blakiston’s Fish Owl (image by Robert tdc/Wikimedia Commons) . In the hardcore “news” department, scientists from the United States and Russia have managed a successful study of the foraging and nesting habits of Blakiston’s Fish Owl , the largest owl on the planet and one of the rarest. ” side.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

About one hundred yards away an Anhinga surfaced with a freshly skewered fish. These scarce residents are rarely seen – and even when visible, are usually quite wary of humans. The only time I had ever been closer to this species was when I didn’t have my camera with me (and saw an adult pass a fish over to a juvenile!)

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently. The plural of carp, for example, the fish and noun, is not carps but carp — that kind of stuff.) (Their trip took ten days; Clavruel’s, mostly by car, was somewhat quicker.). ” In the Footsteps of Audubon.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. Yes, we have them in Shanghai as well. Blue-throated Bee-eaters build nests on sticks sticking out of the water.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

They tease the Brown-hooded Kingfisher by quoting a part of the HBW entry to it: “Rare attempts at fishing seldom successful.” Another obstacle to pleasurable fishing is that the wet look does not work too well for this kingfisher, making the bird look rather disgruntled. Thanks for pointing it out though.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Cormorants and darters have gotten a bad rap throughout human history. They’re seen as bad luck, as fish gluttons, as evil spirits. They eat all our gamefish and scare off the ducks and their guano is a threat to human health. Bald Ravens. Snakebirds. Devil Birds. Well, that last part is true, at least.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2017

Last night I lay awake from 4 am til almost 5, worrying about the black-footed ferrets I met in Montana and the humans who had devoted their lives to helping them. The environment is currently facing some of the most massive challenges in recent human history, and for the first time we have the knowledge to do something about that.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2016

When ground sloths and Titanis disappear, adapt; when humans and their strange accessories appear, adapt. Each is endangered because of human activity in and around the places they’re named for, chiefly habitat destruction. Fish and Wildlife Service. When glaciers rise and fall, adapt.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Survival rates of chicks increase when there are helpers present – and if in captivity this is not an option, humans can also take the place of helpers ( source ). Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. ” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2016

In a world that’s often full of tragedy, every now and then some good news comes along to restore one’s faith in humanity. Fish & Wildlife Service) seem to be faring especially well, with some 85% of populations stabilizing or increasing. Continental U.S. Continental U.S. The average increase was a whopping 624%!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” Our world has changed, and humans have created that change. Wildlife no longer exists in the same way it did before humans came on the scene. The difference seems obvious.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

Waterbirds feed their young fish. In summary: unless you’re a cow or a human, cow’s milk is always a bad idea. Not so with birds, who are taken care of by either the mother or both parents until they are old enough to fly. Care does not include milk. Songbirds feed their young mostly insects, sometimes seeds and berries.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Before leaving this question of "consistency," as affected by the gradations of our duty of humaneness to animals, a few words may be said on the practice of fish-eating. Here again Sir H. Henry S.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2018

Perhaps it’s fitting that Sooty should choose to nest with all its family on one of the most inaccessible national parks (for humans) in the world. Between February and September, Bush Key is ‘closed’ to human traffic. Photo by US Fish and Wildlife. Sooty Tern. Photo by © Toby Hudson. Brown Noddy. Photo by © Toby Hudson.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

They are also quite catholic (sorry, I really like this word) in their prey selection, feeding on 17 different species of fish and prawn in the study cited above. They are also quite catholic (sorry, I really like this word) in their prey selection, feeding on 17 different species of fish and prawn in the study cited above.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2014

Likewise, the diversity of fish-eaters is pretty solid. Because what’s a aquatic fish-eater if it can’t soar like a raptor? The possibility of finding a gator of a size that could due any human beyond a toddler any harm is slim in a place like this. No nerves around humans for this guy.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2019

A world without bird and/or mammal, fish and reptile rehabilitators would be a very sad one. The questions that are raised with a rehab bird are things like; without human help, would the bird have lived? This week, I have been pondering the value of bird rehabilitators. Would it be here in a city park?

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Critter News

MARCH 8, 2010

Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) received the Humane Society’s Legislative Leader award for her leadership in protecting animals. The Humane Society of the United States cited Senator Cantwell’s efforts to improve marine mammal rescue capability, including such challenges as disentangling marine mammals from fishing nets.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2016

Unfortunately, “ humans are still Golden Eagles’ greatest threat: it’s estimated that more than 70 percent of recorded Golden Eagle deaths are attributable to human impact, either intentional or inadvertent.” They also prefer open country as habitat, and feed on insects, mammals, birds, fish, and carrion.

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