10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Not more than four years following the final breath of the last living Passenger Pigeon , and at the same facility – the Cincinnati Zoo, whose place in ornithological history is morbidly established – the last Carolina Parakeet died. The 19-teens were not a good time for North American birdlife. It was called Incas.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

The species was bred at the zoo of Memphis, Tennesee ( source ). If you live in Australia, do not even think of getting this bird as a pet, as “99.99% of these Galahs sold in Australian markets are trapped from the wild” (source). I guess the females feel that the blue of the bower treasures works well with their eyes.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). Each year, US zoos label thousands of nonhuman animals 'surplus' and treat them accordingly" (87).

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