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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Milk or Bread

10,000 Birds

Raptors feed their young meat. In summary: unless you’re a cow or a human, cow’s milk is always a bad idea. Even wild mammals – fawns, squirrels, bunnies, etc. 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.

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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

10,000 Birds

Pale-mandibled Aracari by Luke Seitz Taste, touch and smell in birds are generally considered to be weaker than these same senses in mammals. Whilst catfish have around 100,000 taste buds, rabbits around 17,000 and humans approximately 9,000, birds rarely exceed 100 of these receptors. Let’s talk about taste.

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Animal Person

Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! Ruminants are four-footed, hoofed, even-toed, cud-chewing mammals with four stomachs.

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From Today's Los Angeles Times

Animal Ethics

Further, did those who reacted so strongly to Harambe’s killing go home and serve meat to their children? It is estimated that due to conflicts with humans, the bushmeat and body parts trade, disease and habitat destruction, large mammals in Africa may be extinct by the end of this century. Lisa Edmondson, Los Angeles

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. At least bacon is meat,” added Letitia Labbie. “We I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot.

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Nyala, Southern Africa’s Stunning Antelope

10,000 Birds

In some ways the the flowering of the antelopes as an evolutionary group mirrors our own story, as they benefited and spread widely as the world’s forests gave way to savannah and plains, just like humans. The crest on the back becomes erect during breeding displays.

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Leaping Foxes

10,000 Birds

In German, if you are a rodent and you are smaller than – say – a human hand, you’re a mouse. But of course the mammalian meat eaters will be happy too and reproducing like there’s no tomorrow. You’re not a vole or a gerbil. If however you are a larger “mouse”-like rodent you are a rat.

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