10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The answer may lie more in the work of executive producer Gael Garcia Bernal, co-founder of the Mexican Ambulante Film Festival and the actor who co-presented the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film with the words, “As a Mexican, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I’m against any form of wall that separates us.”*

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2012

The consequences of failure are catalogued in the bulky Unsolved Disappearances Folder in the police station in Queens NY and I didn’t want to end up as just another Management statistic. But where would I find another albino squirrel in time to save my gift for hopscotch? Penendon Heath, that’s where!

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Squirrels North Carolina Missouri Fur 222

Animal Person

JUNE 13, 2009

And he texted or Facebooked friends with various statistical tidbits and a recommendation to watch the film. It's amazing to observe as someone learns about what we humans have done to this planet in such a short period of time, and how dire the situation really is. But that's me.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Vegan Factory 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

But, in the next year, 2009, only one human was killed by a tiger, leading to a conclusion that all the tigers in the conflict area (practically, the wider reserve buffer zone) have been wiped out. Unaware of the cruel statistics, Telia slowly walks through the water disappearing towards the next cove, behind now golden grass of the evening.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2022

Oh, and maybe humans need to be a bit less destructive to your habitat, too. Then again, given that the paper has 12 authors, this may just be statistics at work. No wonder that Oriental Pratincoles generally encourage humans to eat more beef. Asian Dowitchers at Nanhui on July 26, 2022: all losers?

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Cattle Portugal Buffalo Breeding 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In “Birding in Traffic,” Jonathan Rosen, no stranger to making connections between birds and human elements as he did in “The Life of the Skies,” describes how he took the subway to Union Square Park to see a rare (for NYC) Scott’s Oriole. The two stories about New York City are personal favorites, of course.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 184

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

I’d been volunteering at rescues through my young adulthood, and I was training as a cat socializer, teaching terrified felines — the unlucky victims of cruel people — to trust humans again. All of these afflictions are human-caused and largely preventable. One typical, blue-sky, L.A. I was mortified. And, I would have understood.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 210

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

At some point perhaps I’ll write up for you how the evolution of humans, specifically the ape-human split, and Galapagos bird evolution are the same thing in this regard. Birds Bird evolution character displacement conservation biology mumeration'

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Human slavery, of course. But each time Oprah or a guest mentioned a statistic, and the audience was appropriately surprised and disgusted by that statistic, a statistic about animals quickly popped into my mind. But the cow part? The irony of the cow part is that much of this Oprah show was about slavery. Sex slavery.

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Cows Vegan Trafficking Ethics 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. Nor ought we kill them without reason. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 243

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 15, 2006

The study also found that: "IQ remained a statistically significant predictor of being vegetarian as an adult after adjustment for social class (both in childhood and currently), academic or vocational qualifications, and sex." It serves no significant human interest whatsoever.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

As reported in the AP story, two styles of Sean John jackets—one a hooded snorkel style, the other a classic version—were originally advertised as faux fur, but an investigation by the Humane Society of the United States [ HSUS ] found that the jackets were made from dog fur. But is it really? Not according to my students.

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Fur Fur Industry HSUS Raccoons 40