10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

”, which by some remarkable coincidence is also the title of a paper on “Physical-Attractiveness Evaluations and Dating Preferences as a Function of One’s Own Attractiveness” (among humans, not Grey-capped Greenfinches). And here is the Collared Finchbill , who like me suffers from being less social than others.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Humane Society of the United States, SPCA of East Texas and Humane Society of North Texas worked with the Smith County District Attorney's Office to rescue 50 horses from a Lindale property. Some even suffered from parasite infestation and overgrown hooves. The group also included pregnant mares and a few yearlings.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal suffering and protect public safety. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently heard arguments in National Meat Association v.

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Critter News

APRIL 23, 2009

(Actually, less than $1 million dollars went to animal welfare because a portion went to guide dog associations and that is human welfare as far as I’m concerned.) Originally, animal groups actually thought they’d get a huge piece of the estate because Leona Helmsley had supposedly wanted it that way. To human causes.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The official human death toll stood at 181 from the weekend's deadly fires and authorities said it would exceed 200. While the scope of the wildlife devastation was still unclear, it was likely to be enormous, {Jon Rowdon, president of the rescue group Wildlife Victoria} said. The story says millions of animals may have died.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

By weird things I don’t mean human weird things, like for example wasting their time in wild places looking for unusual feathered animals and ticking them off a list, but things that fall outside of their usual repertoire of normal behaviour. It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

One of the benefits that human rights movements have is that they are articulating for themselves. Humans get all wrapped up in stories of those who can communicate their sufferings. This is because the animals cannot use human language to speak for themselves and contradict either side. (I The Humane Society?

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

If any "drastic measures" are employed, they are to remove animals from suffering, not to impose our dietary choices on others. According to Parker, here are the threats: the ALF, the ELF, SHAC, PeTA and the oddest member of the group, the HSUS. The Humane Society of the United States is the big bully on this strange playground. "The

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2014

With their strong flight and capability to disperse, parrots have managed to colonize almost every major island group from Tahiti to Mauritius to Dominica. Both of these endemic parrots suffer from habitat loss and trapping for the pet trade. There are nectar feeders, dedicated frugivores, specialized seed predators and more.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

Common-sense, rational reforms reflect the emerging consensus of mainstream animal protection groups like the Humane Society of the United States and millions of Americans who care about animals. Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Humanity Even for Nonhumans ,” by Nicholas D. Animals raised for food suffer miserably. If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster? Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., I was 4 or 5, and I cringed.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. It "guarantees humane treatment?"

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Nonetheless, they adjusted their behavior to allow Babyl to remain with the group. Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

To the Editor: In your July 12 editorial “ A Humane Egg ,” you disparage the modern, sanitary housing systems for egg-laying hens, which have improved chickens’ health and well-being, improved consumer food safety and kept eggs a nutritious and economical staple on kitchen tables and restaurant menus nationwide.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2022

A small group of Turquoise Tanagers fed on fruiting cecropia, albeit briefly. A member of the “trilling” (and thrilling) subspecies group of the Long-billed Gnatwren is present throughout Trinidad, and is yet another headache-inducing species. Even human-discarded foodstuff has been utilized by these resourceful birds!

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

While some have suggested the egg industry should police itself, history shows that industries based on the backs of the disenfranchised do not voluntarily soften the suffering of those they exploit—all the more so when the victims are millions of hens the public never sees. Consumer boycotts and protective laws are desperately needed.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

Lukas also reports that these beefsteaks "are popular as political meet-and-greets, annual dinners for businesses and civic groups, and charity fundraisers." A list of humane charities can be found here. Charming little events, really"—that's the impression one gets from Lukas's article.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

If you like animals you will generally not want them to suffer and you won’t want them to go extinct. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. You cannot care about the individual, not at that level of suffering.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2022

The HBW is not a great fan of the Grey Treepie , describing it as a “rather drab brownish-grey treepie” On the other hand, I have overheard Grey Treepies describing the HBW staff as a “drab and uninspired group of ornithologists”, so it seems the feeling is mutual. Do birds suffer from depression?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The consultant also suggested increasing readership by catering to highly specific niche interest groups. The Red-flanked Bluetail is also the subject of an otherwise relatively unremarkable paper , but it uses the interesting term “autumn obesity” Maybe this Marsh Sandpiper also suffers from autumn obesity?

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

But when you think about it, climate change might be more important to the people who read 10,000 Birds than a lot of other groups of people. Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. Climate change “mitigation” is rather human focused.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

One group is trying to make a better list of which species of birds to pretend to be doing something about vis-a-vis imminent extinction using a unique approach: Identifying the most genetically unique species. I got it on “film” using my camera, but they were so far away you can only see them for a second, and you can only see a few hundred.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. there is actually a group dedicated to saving lobsters!),

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

what if those were human babies? Desperate to drive up prices by stemming the gusher of unwanted milk, a dairy industry group, the National Milk Producers Federation, has been paying farmers to send herds to slaughter. See the entire slide show, Happy Cows: Behind the Myth, here.). And the day-old calves. The photo is by J.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2007

to bear witness—first hand—to the abject suffering and deaths of individual farmed animals who have been assaulted throughout their entire lives by over 99% of the human population. Working 18 hour days 7 days a week in subzero blizzard conditions to care for our rescued victims of animal agriculture.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

i) Do attend socially conscious circuses like Cirque de Soleil that exclusively feature human performers. (j) j) Donate only to Humane Charities that don't test on animals. A list of Humane Charities is available here. Wishing you a Happy Healthy Humane New Year! Join me in resolving to do right by animals in 2008.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

i) Do attend socially conscious circuses like Cirque de Soleil that exclusively feature human performers. (j) j) Donate only to Humane Charities that don't test on animals. A list of Humane Charities is available here. Wishing you a Happy Humane New Year! (h) Don’t attend circuses that contain nonhuman animal acts. (i)

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 17, 2011

So when we adopted a human baby we knew we'd have to teach that human to avoid Violet. The growing little human in the house was basically taught to stay far away from dogs and respect their space. The growing little human in the house was basically taught to stay far away from dogs and respect their space. And she does.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. Among humans, there is a tendency to dress very young humans up in the most colorful way possible. Humanity is not very human.

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