Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Below is a press release about the mailing. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! Animal science” – distinct from zoology, the science of Earth’s millions of animal species – is what LGUs call meat-industry courses, including slaughtering animals, making ice cream, the full range of meat-linked endeavor.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. They wrote books and published research. This is a project that clearly spanned decades. Another big year memoir? I love reading all of the above.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 146

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, part scientific narrative, part prologue to making an argument for Antarctic conservation.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 151

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. That’s right – birds eating clay. Scarlet and Blue-and-Yellow Macaws Ara macao and A. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

“A reading of recent research shows that Australian birds are more likely than most to eat sweet foods, live in complex societies, lead long lives, attack other birds, and be intelligent and loud.” Generally, this is not a bird getting a lot of good press. ” (Tim Low, “Where Song Began”).

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Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 217

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 262

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

If you want to know why most scientists support collecting this piece in Science explains it better than I can. I can understand why some people are conflicted, but the value to science of the collections is immense. This collection isn’t some ghastly memorial or symbol of human stupidity.

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Collecting Solomon Islands New Zealand Fiji 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. And don’t forget, I’m the one coming out of solitude and ready to rejoin humanity in March of 2020. Perch Press (March 24, 2020). He said, “Figure it out. Read Carl Hiaasen.”. Your last post for 10,000 birds was in 2017.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. She portrays humans merged with Passenger Pigeons; the images are then framed to look like 19th century calling cards. This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins. Princeton University Press, Sept.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 191