Reddit Animals
JANUARY 5, 2024
People in North America began using the term “right whale” in the early 1700s, and originally “right” may have meant “typical,” as these whales were considered common and ordinary. However, over time, the term evolved to refer to how they were hunted—they were considered “the right whales to hunt.”
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans. Plain old fashioned Fun.”.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
You might think that birds don’t change the world, birds are the world – but by his odd title, Ten Birds That Changed the World, author Stephen Moss means, he says, that birds have, in various ways, led to “paradigm shifts” in human history. Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2024
They are ridiculously unafraid of people there – so the cynic in me suspects that swan meat is not regarded as tasty by the Japanese (another explanation, that the Japanese just like animals too much, can presumably be discarded given the country’s very principled approach in insisting on the right to kill whales).
Reddit Animals
DECEMBER 15, 2023
The other option would be to kill the hedgehog if the risk that he would have to endure to much pain would have been too big. I think I did the right decision but it was not an easy one. He was looking at me like “ what are you doing here human? I sometimes think about this accident and hope I did right. So adorable.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2015
What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Human rights, property rights, and wildlife rights – all in one steel container. What can she do?
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. Harris’s are also, according to Cowan, smarter than other hawks; they hunt in packs and, for that reason, may welcome humans as hunting partners more so than other raptors. We serve them.”.
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