Critter News

JANUARY 31, 2011

Canadian police are investigating the reported killing of 100 huskies which had been used to pull tourist sleds in the ski resort of Whistler. An animal rights group claims the dogs were killed inhumanely by an outdoor adventure company and thrown into a mass grave. Bad allegations connected to Whistler.

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Critter News

JUNE 14, 2011

He visits Arizona's Road Kill Cafe, where the menu features not-so-exotic fare. And he meets people who consume things you would not find on the menu even at the Road Kill, like frog smoothies and tarantulas -- the former because it supposedly increases virility and the latter for medicinal purposes.

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Investigation Arizona Branding Vet 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2020

Before we got to our destination, I pulled the car over to investigate an almost deafening twittering. We counted seven of these alluring birds while I killed my camera battery. We decided to leave the couple to sort their differences out in privacy and head into some nearby cocoa estates to see what was on offer.

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Trinidad Battery Industry Bats 220

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Justice Department is investigating seven of the deaths, since they violate federal law.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Industry United States 214

Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Dad has been feeding it cheese so they're tight I think it watches aircrash investigations with him on TV. 1 - Keep it 2 - Kill it 3 - The field 4 - ? So Reddit, what do you think? ​ ​ submitted by /u/YourEnemiesDefineYou [link] [comments]

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2012

On Wednesday morning I had a meeting in Bayonne, New Jersey for my job and as is my wont I left my house in Queens early to beat the traffic and therefore found myself with a little over an hour to kill before my meeting. Then a flock of flickers foraging in a field got my attention and I parked and went over to investigate.

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New Jersey Sparrows Investigation Killing 175

Critter News

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Investigative journalism by the Salt Lake Tribune, following-up on allegations levelled by PETA against the University of Utah's Comparative Medicine Center and the Cardiovascular Research & Training Institute laboratories revealed the two laboratories had used 190 dogs and cats in 2009, all obtained from shelters.

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Utah Animal Research PETA Stray 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The following emails were intercepted by our crack team of investigative journalists. Wait, you actually killed someone? They are from the internal communication system of a shadowy organization of bird enthusiasts that we haven’t even managed to put a name to as of yet. Good news, though! We got some press ! To: Sparrow.

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Ducks 2018 New York City Sparrows 150

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Even to the author of the paper, who cautiously adds that “nest architecture is unlikely to be irrelevant to females, and its role deserves further investigation” (if swear words were allowed on 10,000 Birds, I would say that he is trying to cover his ass). The dangers of being a geologist.

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Sri Lanka Birds Taiwan Cats 215

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

As our Gypsy comes to a halt, one Oriental Honey Buzzard is investigating the new arrivals. In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. Finally, the shores of the Telia lie in front of us.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 246

Critter News

NOVEMBER 9, 2008

In India, f orensic tests helped establish guilt in the killing of 10 endangered lions. Between February and March 2007, 10 lions were killed by poachers in three different incidents at the Gir National Park (GNP) which houses 360 Asiatic lions, the only surviving population in the wild. The link was clearly established.

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India Wildlife Lions 2007 100

Critter News

JANUARY 13, 2009

Just last week, a 33-year-old ranger was killed by Mai Mai rebels. That arrest has resulted in several leads in the investigation. Protecting mountain gorillas in the Congo is dangerous work. Mai Mai rebels are described as community-based militia groups frequently involved in banditry.

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Congo Gorillas Endangered Species Wounded 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

It took her several minutes to kill and eat it. At first I ignored it, but it continued so I went to investigate. I was squirming, but I didn’t interrupt her because I wanted it gone! After a few minutes there was no sign of the spider and Lilly flew away.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Tennessee Raised Wildlife 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

May 29, 2010 BP finally announces that Operation “Top Kill”, the effort to force drilling mud into the wellhead and seal it, has failed. July 24, 2010 BP brazenly says an internal investigation has cleared the company of all gross negligence in the spill.

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Critter News

AUGUST 25, 2008

State wildlife officials are investigating a possible poaching case in which someone removed the gallbladder of a black bear -- which can sell for thousands of dollars in Asia -- after the animal was struck and killed this week by a car in the Lake Tahoe area. Sounds like a crime of opportunity. Beware the disturbing photo.

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Bears Asia Trafficking illegal 100

Critter News

JANUARY 4, 2010

Justice Department's lead environmental crimes prosecutors have been making the pitch both here and abroad that investigators, prosecutors, and judges should pursue wildlife criminals as traditional criminals, charging them with smuggling, money laundering, etc. Weak reporting kills wildlife. In the past few years, the U.S.

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Trafficking Wildlife Endangered Species Investigation 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

In a manner that’s Malcolm Gladwell meets Freakonomics, which is the fascinating part, Herzog investigates our beliefs and actions regarding nonhuman animals (anthrozoology). Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. All day long.

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Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2016

You would often hear the Rainbow Bee-eaters tapping away as they killed an insect by bashing it on the branches before consuming it. The Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike was observed every day, but the less common to the area White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike did drop by to investigate on a few occasions over our visits. Rainbow Bee-eater.

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Birds Zebras Investigation Species 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever , a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru.

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

As he turned his head to investigate, a flash of lightening cast its cold white light onto a tall hooded silhouette, veiled in a cloak of darkness and decay. But something happened, and it happened many times: Something has been killing our Blackbirds. He had come at last to take him, too. Why aren’t we entirely sure?

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Blackbirds Germany Shelters Rodents 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

But efforts like The Bobolink Odyssey , a project run by the Perlut Lab of the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, are attempting to bridge that divide by investigating land management practices in Vermont that balance the needs of both farmers and grassland birds.

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Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 119

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2009

Here's the letter from Chris of Furisevil to HSUS: Dear HSUS, Like the raccoon dogs just a few miles from me, in cages awaiting to be killed, I cannot afford to wait for HSUS to do something. All the evidence you need is on [link] -- there is no investigation required. Nothing personal, but I have to blog about this.

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HSUS Fur Ethics China 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering.

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New York Times New York Los Angeles Ethical Treatment 40

Animal Ethics

MAY 28, 2008

And when one considers that millions of dogs and cats are killed each year in shelters because there are no homes for them, cloning becomes unethical as well. Kathy Guillermo Director Laboratory Investigations Department People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Norfolk, Va., May 21, 2008

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New York Times New York Ethical Treatment 2008 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Free-roaming cats will hunt and kill birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, resulting in wildlife mortality. If left unchecked, free-roaming cats will breed and their populations increase at locations where they find suitable shelter and food, resulting in environmental/property damage, and public nuisance.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 210

Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2008

Thanks to Adrian Seeley for calling to my attention this story about PGA Tour golfer Tripp Isenhour, who allegedly intentionally killed a red-shouldered hawk with a golf shot. The bird was buried on the golf course—perhaps in an effort to hide the evidence—but was later dug up by Florida investigators. What say you?

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Michael Vick Cruelty Killing Laws 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 119

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope. One of the strange things about the Kirtland’s Warbler story is the participation of Nathan Leopold, Jr. Leopold and his friend Richard Loeb are two of the most infamous murderers in U.S.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 230

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. Others lashed out and were killed. To investigate why the kids made this counter intuitive mistake, the scientists rigged the cups to wires and then lowered them over the toy.

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Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2015

We released live mice into the flight so they could learn to catch and kill live prey. They immediately went to investigate it, and quickly learned to move when cars were coming. We started feeding mice, mealworms, and even some wild bird mix and leftovers, as they are scavengers.

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Raised Mice Wildlife Rehabilitation Squirrels 234

Critter News

OCTOBER 20, 2008

More than 60,000 cats were killed in Illinois animal pounds and shelters in 2006. That’s 5,000 cats killed every month, and 160 each day. In the same year that 60,000 cats were killed and 17,000 went missing, the Illinois Department of Agriculture didn’t review the reports. Things don't look too good.

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Cats Illinois Feral Cats 2006 100

Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

In 2004, for example, The New York Times broke the story about a PETA undercover investigation that found routine animal abuse at AgriProcessors kosher slaughterhouse. It should come as no surprise that a facility that profits from tormenting and killing animals would also oppress and abuse humans.

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New York Times New York Animal Abuse Ethical Treatment 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Every now and the the loosing Loon would disappear like it had been killed and sunk. Two fairly recent NRDA studies investigating the impacts of marine oil spills on Common Loons in New England (North Cape in 1996, Buzzards Bay in 2002) would have benefited from knowing whether Common Loons exhibited winter site fidelity.

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Humane Eagles Investigation Research 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

However, there are still instances where individuals intentionally kill birds and there are criminal prosecutions under the MBTA, though they are uncommon. The case involved two men, Douglas “Vance” Crooked Arm and Kenneth Shane, and they were charged with baiting and killing eagles and hawks to make fans of tail feathers.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Deer Birds 113

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. Just how do Chinese workers kill raccoon dogs?"

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Fur Fur Industry HSUS Raccoons 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

If the animal then touches or investigates the mark, it is taken as an indication that the animal perceives the reflected image as an image of itself, rather than of another animal. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 187