Critter News

JANUARY 31, 2011

Canadian police are investigating the reported killing of 100 huskies which had been used to pull tourist sleds in the ski resort of Whistler. An animal rights group claims the dogs were killed inhumanely by an outdoor adventure company and thrown into a mass grave. Bad allegations connected to Whistler.

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2009

Good news following an investigation of farm animal abuses by Mercy for Animals. Says Radlo, "We've given up that facility and we're moving on down the road and we're sourcing from other states right now but there's an important thing that people need to know: we hear you loud and clear." Here's a link to the investigative video.

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Critter News

JANUARY 9, 2012

An Alachua County Circuit Court judge has ordered the University of Florida to provide an animal rights activist with records on primates involved in research. Camille Marino of Wildwood, who founded the group Negotiation is Over, received the records last week. Full article in the Gainesville Sun. This is about tearing down that wall.”

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Critter News

DECEMBER 24, 2010

The Davis County Commission has agreed to pay the legal fees of an animal rights group after settling a lawsuit over animal shelter records. The money will cover a portion of PETA's legal fees for a lawsuit the group filed in January about animals that had been sold by the county shelter for research purposes.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2012

A bright flash of white caught my attention in this lilly-choked wetland Closer investigation revealed a stunning male Pheasant-tailed Jacana perched atop a female. This is the opposite of polygamous; the females hold and actively defend territories containing several males with whom they have mating rights.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2013

They roam in family groups varying from eight birds upwards and have a certain confidence about themselves as they strut around the bush. Apostlebird investigating field-guide. At the campsite in Biggenden the manager called them “Happy Jumpers” and that really does describe them perfectly.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Bowing under pressure, they are allowing an outside group of experts review their operations. think it’s an extreme animal rights organization that wants to close all zoos,” Steve Feldman {AZA spokesman} said. The latter comment is in reference to Zoocheck Canada , a zoo watchdog demanding the independent investigation.

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Zoos Extremist Investigation Canada 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

Take, for example, this pair of birds I found investigating a cavity in northern Chatham County this weekend. A pair were busy investigating a broken stump, though the real object of their interest, what I assume was an old cavity, happened to just be on the opposite side. Appropriate! may not be accurate.

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North Carolina Investigation Jordan United States 191

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

(Especially happily that the meeting was held at the Palmer House Hilton, right near my office, so that I was able to spend my morning volunteering and still put in a full day at work.). Exhibitors ranged from book publishers to purveyors of telemetry equipment to local bird and wildlife groups.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2011

There is a lot of bird movement around Australia at the moment due to the weather, so time to go and investigate! White-winged Black Terns resting on the fence We saw a lovely group of three Red-kneed Dotterel trying to find ground above water and there were 7 Sacred Kingfishers taking advantage of the fence to roost and pounce on tadpoles.

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Critter News

JUNE 6, 2009

I recently became a member of PETA because I admire their investigative arm and their ability to get media attention. And I think that, yes, there is a place for shock value in the animal rights movement. in order to always push the boundaries of debate for other groups to then follow.

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PETA Animal Rights Movement Investigation Animal Rights 100

Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Thanks to PETA's undercover investigation of University of Utah labs for bringing this issue to media attention. The practice gained wider publicity after the animal rights group PETA said earlier this month that 1 of its agents spent eight months working undercover at University of Utah research facilities. From the AP.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But within the last year, an animal cruelty investigation almost shut one down because spikes were being used to antagonize the bull. Next time, though, I might want to hook up with an animal rights group to protest. This was a clear violation of animal law. They are just stupid and really have nothing to do with religion.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Nonprofit pet protection groups would manage the program and be responsible for ensuring that cat caretakers take the required steps. Several members of the Audubon Society said the plan fails to answer questions about how cats will be managed and what rights neighbors will have if the cats become a nuisance. First amendment rights?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The alarming decline of grassland species like the Upland Sandpiper ( Bartramia longicauda ) and Eastern Meadowlark ( Sturnella magna ) has been the most precipitous and extensive of any group of North American birds, and much of this decline results from changes in agricultural land management.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

I remember, several times while motionlessly surveying birds, I found myself being investigated by Striped Field Mice , who would dare to come to sniff me. Asia: Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! 10000birds.com/the-ruddy-shelduck-twitch.htm.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

This being said, we are currently investigating options to team up with a group of American naturalists to produce a series of guidebooks on North American areas. They don’t profess this to be the only right way of looking at an area, they merely want to hand a reference of valuing an area. Does this sound vague?

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Badgers Ethics Africa Spain 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Over a dozen distinctive ethnic groups exist here, many of whom live lives little touched by the modern world. The Turmi area is home to the Hamar tribe who numbering nearly 50,000 are one of the largest ethnic groups living in the Lower Omo Valley (with an approximate population of 200,000 tribal people).

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 235

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2022

To the right of the toucan, a Scaled Pigeon still rests comfortably, while one of many pairs of Orange-winged Parrots flies past in the background. We stopped periodically to investigate various patches along the road. Dusky-capped Flycatcher (lower right) and a Rufous-tailed Jacamar. Broad-winged Hawk. Slowly, we continued.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) The bird illustrations in the third edition are brand new, updated by a group of eight artists working under the direction of John P.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 189

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In the Orinoco, the largest observed groups number 30, but average is just above five. Am I over-confident in my thinking that we were so interesting that they were investigating us for a good half an hour, until we moved further upriver? Indigenous community of El Remanso, right underneath the imposing monoliths of Cerros de Mavecure.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 256

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

That’s right – birds eating clay. By twos and fours they arrive and scatter in small groups among the canopy to their favorite perches in iron, cecropia and aguaje palm trees. Wicked, right? The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. Botibol” (p. There is no effort at context.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 118

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 200

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Instead, he simply points at the cup on the right. What’s at play here, she concluded, is not some inner sense of right and wrong but a learned ability to act submissive when an owner gets angry. The Russians began by breeding a group of foxes according to one simple rule: they would walk up to a cage and put a hand on the bars.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Further investigation revealed that 30 years ago, the Pennsylvania Game Commission had brought breeding eagles down from Canada to start a Bald Eagle re-introduction program, hoping to bolster the population ravaged by DDT. Once again, Maryjane settled him in; then, since he was banded, she went online to look up the band.

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Bald Eagle Wildlife Rehabilitation Pennsylvania Eagles 239

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

DNA evidence then indicated that they are an ancient group mostly closely related to the bizarre and wildly different rockfowls and they were therefore contentiously placed in the Picathartes family, before finally finding a contented home in their own family, Chaetopidae.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

Being lazy, a bunch of researchers used camera traps to investigate the species rather than following the birds directly (which would have had some health benefits). Higher-ranking females seem to do this better than lower-ranking ones, resulting in higher survival rates for their chicks ( source ).

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Birds China Science Research 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini. What a horror! What a wrong!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2016

We were soon aware of s small group of Zebra Finch in the tree and although we have seen them drink from the sea in the past we thought some fresh water would be much appreciated! The next surprise was an Australian Pipit that walked in and investigated. It watched the other birds for some time and then jumped in! Silver Gull.

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Zebras Investigation Turtles Groups 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2014

It was very damp along the edges of the road and there were two male Superb Lyrebirds busy kicking through the leaves right on the edge of the road. The carpark area was surrounded by a grassy area with picnic facilities and was extremely popular with several groups of Superb Fairy-wrens. Superb Fairy-wren -male. Australian Magpie.

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Cattle Boston Investigation Australia 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? If migration evolved many times in birds, then it would be worth asking if it evolved in birds more often than in other groups of vertebrates. Well, you know I’m only joking about the life list. Consider the implications.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 187

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

If the animal then touches or investigates the mark, it is taken as an indication that the animal perceives the reflected image as an image of itself, rather than of another animal. Interestingly, Black-winged Stilts display laterality – that is, they preferentially use one eye (the right one) to find prey. ” How unfair.

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