Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
While I'm not a fan of using animal hearts for transplants, I'm far more sympathetic to that than to simply using their parts for human vanity consumption. But the seal industry doesn't care. They'll exploit anything to try to save their barbaric trade and, if they can use guilt, even better. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2022
Apologies – I have not taken my anti-cynicism medication for a while now, and it starts to show). .” This sparrow does not want to hear it has a beautiful soul. It would love to be called beautiful, sexy and glamorous though. The photo shows a male – the female has some chestnut parts as well.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2012
She was tired, thin, and had several medical issues. She taught them how to hunt, and when they were released in the fall she stayed on her perch, dozing in the sun. The naturalist got out of his car, picked her up, took the tape off her legs, and took her to a local zoo. to find out her actual age.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Most arguments for conserving a species focus on things that we can measure in dollar amounts, such as ecotourism, medical benefits, etc. Snowy Owls are at risk of getting killed via collisions, incidental poisoning from rodenticides, and even illegal hunting (Stone et al. 1999, Holt et al.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2021
There is a mushroom hunting expedition in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’s use of a popular Russian pastime. Lewis Carroll’s “hookah smoking caterpillar” pontificates from atop a mushroom (one side makes you larger, one side makes you small).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
One is Tylenol (the human pain medication) — a completely selective feral-cat poison. Never ones to let facts stand in the way of a good, old-fashioned, witch-hunt, the hordes of cat crazies heeded the call of their overlords and not only sent emails but essentially took over the National Audubon Society’s Facebook page.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret. 2019), and now this book.
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