Animal Person

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I've always thought of horse-drawn carriages the way I think about greyhound racing or fur: Most people are against them, so why are they still around? The Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages calls itself "an animal rights-protection-abolitionist organization," which I find interesting.

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Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

I'm excited to be a blogger for Animal Rights Zone because its target market is people who don't usually subscribe to blogs. You can search Animal Person's content (posted on AR Zone) using the search box on the right, under the AR Zone badge. Today is the launch of. On the left, you'll see this: Concepts. Project Treadstone.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not. The love that Montgomery feels for the hawk and its wildness will never be reciprocated: a raptor is not a dog or a horse.

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Critter News

JANUARY 17, 2011

It's a festival in which the horses are sanctified by the flames, they are liberated from all their ills," said Quique, 30, who takes part in the festival every year. The tradition is under threat from animal rights groups, who say the horses suffer as they leap over the flames. We don't force them," Quique said.

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Critter News

JANUARY 4, 2012

Federal wildlife managers are fighting in court to take the unprecedented step of castrating 200 wild stallions in Nevada, in an effort to control surging populations of wild horses across the West. Animal-rights activists oppose the plan, which they contend would strip the wild stallions of their fighting spirit and change herd dynamics.

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Critter News

MARCH 14, 2010

He didn't know how his horses were being treated on his own farm? Yeah, right. Prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson Valley farm. Tags: New York animal cruelty horses. Plus, this is the guy's BUSINESS.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The horse is probably out of the barn on this plant anyway, as it has spread quite a bit, but I can see both sides of the argument. In addition to the serrated bill, Collared Aracaris have a barbed tongue, which you can see in the bird on the right. On the one hand, they want native plants growing. I don’t think they miss, ever.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter. According to a statement from the AQHA, “The majority of horses processed for slaughter in the United States [prior to slaughterhouse closures in this country] were no longer viable for their intended use, unmanageable or simply unwanted by their owners.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Over the past two weeks I have introduced you to the section of items that Great Bowerbird will collect in a remote area of Keep River National Park with no human influence and then at the Big Horse Creek camping ground. Hiking trails from Katherine Gorge to Edith Falls.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

Four months ago, I would have taken to the crowded pathway at Lafayette Heritage Trail Park like a horse to pasture, reveling in the outdoor exercise and rare time away from my new baby. We could have continued along the paddle trail, but I’m still building my kayaking muscles and didn’t want to overdo it right out of the gate.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

Think of your favorite horror film: A brutal ruthless killer is on the loose, slashing hapless innocent victims to death right and left. that slaughters horses for human consumption. Since it is illegal to sell horse meat for human consumption in the U.S., One can't kill horses for human consumption within the U.S.,

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2021

In fact, bulbuls are the work horses of the bird world in many parts of Asia and Africa. However, this rebranding has to be done right, and it has to be done whole-heartedly. ” Sounds a bit like a Grey-eyed Bulbul once took away the girlfriend of an eBird reviewer, doesn`t it? Otherwise the results will be disappointing.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2015

BUT, if you think that’s a lot of birds, just hold your horses for the crazy avian ride carried out by a four birder team in Ecuador. On October 8th of this year, Rudy Gelis, Mitch Lysinger, Tuomas Seimola and Dušan Brinkhuizen brought Big Day birding to new, insane heights with a staggering result of 425 species in one calendar day.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. It should surprise no one that someone brought horses, or goats, or chickens. People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. But hedgehogs?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2015

Raptors : A pretty high number of raptor species occur in Costa Rica but hold your feathered horses raptorphiles because most are rare! With regular birding in the right places, the most likely additions will be White-tailed Hawk, Pearl Kite, Mississippi Kite, Bicolored Hawk, and Black Hawk-Eagle (should have had that one already!).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

The Barn Swallow at right was rescued by Rebecca Dmytryk of Wildlife Emergency Services in Moss Landing, California, and transferred to Native Songbird Care and Conservation in Sebastopol. Horse people love to hang flypaper, I’ve had many Barn Swallows come in stuck to them,” says Jodi Swensen, of Cape Ann Wildlife in Massachusetts. “I

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Critter News

MARCH 8, 2009

The provincial government says it's gone from "worst to first" and Ontario is now the only jurisdiction in Canada with special protections for law-enforcement animals like police dogs and horses. Veterinarians are now required to report any instances of abuse or neglect.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

As the old saying goes, “when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras” This is not an easy bird, but it is expected. Last week a mystery bird from New Jersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond. In it we can see things we recognize in other, more common, birds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

I think I was 19 when I made my first bucket list of things I’d like to do, from horse-back riding to sailing, rafting, caving, climbing… all sort of things Willie Garvin was good at (minus the knife throwing). I still believe that choosing the right approach may be the most important phase of any research. Why at the back?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

It’s become regrettably political in the US right, which is the absolute worst response to a potential pandemic going. My parents are in England, should I be worried about the conflict on the other side of Europe in the Ukraine?” ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 18, 2009

In the unending quest to find a kindred animal rights soul amongst my current friends, I ventured into animal testing territory with three friends over lunch this week (two guys and a woman). One guy I already knew was pretty hopeless (as he always eats some au jus sandwich).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Someone had told me a group of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers called this patch of forest home, and we were determined to find out if he was right. The horse flies were also out in full force, and we scurried down the hot trail and back to the car in our efforts to escape. Still, we were in for another birding surprise.

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Animal Person

JULY 1, 2009

Accordingly, we oppose the use of devices such as electric prods, sharpened sticks, spurs, flank straps, and other rodeo equipment that cause animals to react violently, and we oppose bull riding, bronco riding, steer roping, calf roping, "wild horse racing," chuck wagon racing, steer tailing, and horse tripping.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 19, 2010

A massage would really hit the spot right about now, wouldn’t it? It was first used on race and show horses. Rubbernecking traffic made you an hour late for work, and the boss made you stay late for a pointless meeting. By the time you make it home, you’re absolutely spent and your shoulders are sore.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Wicked, right? The naming of the hornbill family is a bit farther fetched. Wikimedia Commons Bucerotidae is etymologically opaque to most birders, I’d venture, but when Rafinesque described the family almost two centuries ago, he had kine on his mind. Hat-tip to Stella.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

And, there is a fairy named Moth in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a superhero named The Moth, appropriately from Dark Horse Comics, the poor cousin to the two big comic book companies. Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America (left plate) and Southeastern North America (two right plates).

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 14, 2011

In 2007 – at age 50 – I realized that the answer was right in front of me. Her animal training experience includes working with dogs, cats, horses, llamas, alpacas and camels. I lost 30 to 40 pounds at least eight times, and 5 to 10 pounds too many times to remember.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

That’s not right.” The center of attention are the eagle hunters, erect on their horses, hands protected by thick leather gloves holding their hooded eagles, arms propped up by handmade wooden rests attached to the saddle, weathered faces framed by splendid fur-trimmed hats. They’re stealing the eagle?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This includes horses, cats and cows. Tags: Books Current Affairs Greyhound Matters Language " Jeffrey Masson "The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving animal rights dogs service dogs. And he details why. As much as I might love Emily (our kitty), the way Masson sees it, she doesn't love me back in the same way.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Today these trees – oak, beech and horse chestnut – are like fine icing on a very poor cake. So though I visited Lynford, I didn’t see a Hawfinch on this occasion as I wasn’t there at the right time, though I did meet a number of hopeful Hawfinch hunters (HHHs), none of whom reported a sighting.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. News flash: Slaughtering horses does not promote their welfare. ii) reasons for banning horse slaughter in the U.S.,

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

My colleague Doug wrote me an email describing the whereabouts of these “rosy finches” and my wife had to manage my excitement with horse tranquilizer… What a fantastic little birds. I might have to add the Dallas airport staff to the list of things Buffon was right about. I flew into Denver from Mexico.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2021

They’re riding horses on my lake. While numbers were low, our first migratory Baird’s Sandpipers and Wilson’s Phalaropes had arrived from their breeding grounds up north, right on time. This greenish tone suggests there is more algae in the waters to the east of the toll road. I suspect these waters are shallower.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. Indigenous community of El Remanso, right underneath the imposing monoliths of Cerros de Mavecure. Left to right: my guide Edson Moroni and the local shop keeper Daniel Luis.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I drove out a bit late because of an almost-flat tire that needed attention, and then managed to drive right past the reservoir without seeing it. Would Las Mesas, the closest to Morelia of these sites, join their ranks as a prime birding spot? Not the most auspicious start to my day!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

You could say that the right-brain, the part of the brain that is intuitive and creative, goes first, and the left-brain, where the logic resides, comes in second to refine and substantiate the initial impression. Five species are grouped in a chapter titled (4) Dark Horse Gulls (Rare or Unlikely Gulls).

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