10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2021
Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? In the transport box was the bat and a SpongeBob Squarepants Pineapple House – she said that’s where he slept. “Almost restores your faith in humanity!”
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2021
The short answer is that wilderness areas are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System and they are protected by the Wilderness Act of 1964. Simply put, wilderness areas are the most protected public lands in America. And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2015
A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Predators and storms can wreak havoc and human intervention is sometimes needed for survival. Call and transport the bird to a bird rehabber ASAP. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect.
Critter News
AUGUST 17, 2008
In a unanimous decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge by animal protection advocates to the state’s rules on the care of farmed animals) but struck down regulations that regard husbandry practices as being “humane” merely because they are routine.
Animal Person
DECEMBER 5, 2009
People whose careers involve creating, fattening, transporting and slaughtering sentient nonhumans whose parts and secretions will then be used as food are having some financial difficulties. Along with the rest of the country. What if this has nothing to do with the recession or less than one might think ( nothing 's a tough sell)?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
The day before, the day I arrived, was a transport day, and that meant the pack hadn’t been seen in the afternoon. There are a lot of reasons why Painted Wolves are struggling, and many of them are human caused. Part of the monitoring that we were all out there to do was keeping an eye on the health of the pack.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Basically, hornbills get paid by evolution to eat fruit, digest the fleshy parts, and regurgitate or defecate the rest – a means of seed transportation that is apparently quite attractive to many plants despite the yuck factor involved. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars.
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