10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2018

A sample of this process is here.) However, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (“MBTA”) broadly prohibits the “take” of any bird, which effectively means that a protected bird cannot be killed, harassed, or otherwise adversely impacted. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, but the result was the same.

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Owls Endangered Species Oregon Friends Of Animals 128

Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

At issue was whether federal regulations dealing with inspection of domesticated animals about to be killed, processed, and sold for human consumption preempted -- or nullified -- California Penal Code 599f. The FMIA expressly preempts such a state law.".

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Longer story shorter (which I wrote about here ), I found it and was startled to find out that the Ravens ( Corvus corax ) had not only chased it, but they had caught it, killed it, and were in the process of eating the adult King Eider ( Somateria spectabilis ) when I came along. How common is it?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. Perhaps 15 minutes?

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 200

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And in Ireland, well… In Ireland they killed Wrens. The explanations for this vary, and in this case it’s probably as much a result of the syncretic folk process as the Internet just lying all the time. And tied them to the top of sticks. And then paraded them through town.

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Ireland New Zealand Hunting Cooking 136

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

And on their way south, they reach the killing fields of northern Serbia ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). But the representatives of the European Commission were up to their task, making the screening process very uncomfortable for the ill-prepared Serbian delegates. Money and effort are being invested in that protection.

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Serbia Slaughter Slaughtered Turtles 270

Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. Most animals in the U.S.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Researchers told the Tribune that the testing gave the shelter animals "a second chance at life," while records obtained by the Tribune revealed that the labs had killed 116 of the 190 strays last year. Only 74 animals survived the research process to be adopted out as pets.

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Utah Animal Research PETA Stray 100

Critter News

DECEMBER 3, 2009

It could mean not only an end to killing animals for food, but also significantly aid the fight against climate change. Why is that my husband won't eat bones with fat on them because they are "gross," but will eat burgers and processed meat? You can forget who you are eating when it's processed so cleanly. This would be great.

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Meat Factory Farm Factory Farming Netherlands 100

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Manana is plagued by other predators that steal her kills, threaten her cubs and hold her hostage in the treetops. Yet despite the hardship of life as a female leopard, she survives for an incredible 17 years, an age few wild leopards live to see, and in the process, provides a greater understanding of this extraordinary species.

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Leopards Cats Kittens South Africa 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

You open the door and they either freak and flail, which could lead to self-injury; or they freak and try to kill you, which could lead to rehabber injury. “I You open one door, the bird moves to the other end, and you clean; then you close the door, open the second one, and repeat the process, all without having to touch the bird.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Colorado Protest Protesting 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2013

This European Starling was actually in the process of clearing out an active House Sparrow nest in this photo. The sparrows will go as far to kill the original makers of the cavity. Clearly, the patch job didn’t work. Here the male House Sparrow attacks the invading starling.

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Sparrows Squirrels Birds Minnesota 177

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. My climate is very wet in the summer, and bone-dry in the winter. We share some plant options with southern California, and others with Florida.

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Birds Woodpeckers Madagascar Nashville 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

I imagine part of the allure of studying mushrooms is the tension between identifying the ones that will kill you (or at the very least give you a tummy ache) and the ones that will make your pizza or salad zing. The edibility of most species is unknown. The glossary is a bit disappointing.

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North America America Species 2018 276

Animal Person

MAY 29, 2009

less processed food and more fresh, organic fruits, veggies, grains and legumes), than I'm thrilled. If it steers (sorry about the pun) people toward animals raised in places other than factory farms, where they will still be killed, I'm not thrilled. If more people eat actual food as a result (i.e., My guess is I'll get some of both.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Vegan Factory 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2013

May 2013 was the wettest May on record, like… ever, with extreme flood events that even killed people. I can expect a few new species for my year list once I arrive at my new home in the northern Hoggar mountains, which makes the entire process fine with me. March 2013 was the coldest March in more than 100 years.

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Algeria 2013 Germany Mali 149

Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

The Islamic practice of slaughtering animals by means of a sharp cut to the front of the neck has frequently come under attack by some animal rights activists as being a form of animal cruelty, the claim being that it is a painful inhumane method of killing animals. It is also used to prevent the animal from feeling pain before it dies.

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Slaughter Slaughtered Humane Germany 100

Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

The problem is that people are abandoning and neglecting horses, and to address that problem--to address the problem that people abandon horses--we'll kill the horses? Butcher (no joke) from Montana: " “No one has to send a horse to a processing plant. Do we recommend killing those children? Financially).

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Horse Slaughter Horses Unwanted Horses Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.”

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 250

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

It is presented in two main parts, the “how” – considering the physical processes involved in the way animals perceive their environment, and “why” of animal behaviour – examining the evolutionary forces that have shaped the more complex behaviours.

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 116

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

Very simply put, the bird population in the Mohave is in the process of collapse, and the reason for it appears to be climate change. More recently, Kelly J. Iknayan and Steven R. Beissinger of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkely, repeated the survey. This is not what the study shows.

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2018 Science Humane Species 102

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

His ability to tie the concepts of immunology, evolution and pathology to the personal make the book a much easier read to process. The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves. It’s amazing how personal the book can be. A sobering thought, but it would be dangerous to read too much into that.

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Humane Animal Africa Ukraine 164

Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

In fairness, I think that what the linguistically lazy are really trying to say is that a little bit of a bad thing isn't going to kill you. But it might kill someone else, as in the case of hot dogs, considering no creature gets out of the hot-dog making process alive. Or in the case of cheese made from the milk of cows.

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Vegan Laws Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. Because their flesh and secretions taste good.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

There's no "compassion" in the process. And regardless of how you treat someone when they're live and regardless of how you kill them, if you don't need to kill them and you're doing so merely to please your palate, how do you justify what you're doing? It's cruel. No argument here. You can't (at least not in a meaningful way).

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter Slaughtered 100

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 22, 2011

Michael Vick, whose unearthed gambling operation was found to not only force dogs to fight, but also kill under-performing dogs in twisted ways, is only one story in a mass of untold stories. However, they are more vulnerable to being forced into fighting than other breeds. Find Your Found Pit Bull a Home.

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Pit Bulls Pit Bull Rescue Spay Spaying 100

Critter News

JUNE 19, 2009

That is the greatest natural process of all. Earthquakes can still kill hundreds of thousands. The wildness and danger are still there. Why do I believe we have NOT conquered nature? Here are a few reasons. We are not immortal. We can still die. Hurricanes can still decimate cities.

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Killing Tagged Rights 100

Animal Person

JANUARY 11, 2010

Again, I was making a personal observation about the evolution of my own thought process and asking if anyone else saw things similarly. Far more than any Judeo-Christian tradition, these individuals whose lives are governed by karma, choose to have someone create and kill animals for them to eat. Ask them what they had for breakfast.

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Vegan Advocacy Animal Abuse Compassion 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

After careful scrutiny of images, it seems that the Blue Sheep lost its footing as it tried to escape but in the process it kicked up a load of gravel and dust, right into the Snow Leopard’s face, temporarily blinding the cat. The blue line follows the route of the Blue Sheep as they grazed towards the rocky outcrop.

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

Riddle me this: If you're in camp #3, do you think it's bad to pursue personhood for individual species, or is it just something you're not going to spend your time on because of the various problems with the process (e.g., which animals and why, what characteristic/s and whose definition of them, just to name a few)?

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Dolphins Animal Rights Rights Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

From the abstract of that paper: The behavioral strategies developed by predators to capture and kill their prey are fascinating, notably for predators that forage for prey at, or beyond, the boundaries of their ecosystem. This interesting behavior was reported last month in the OpenAccess journal PLoS ONE. pigeons, Columbia livia ).

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Fish Birds Whales Whaling 215

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Meat, however, purchased at the supermarket, externally packaged and internally laced with petrochemicals, fattened in feed lots, slaughtered impersonally, and, in general, mechanically processed from artificial insemination to microwave roaster, is an affront not only to physical metabolism and bodily health but to conscience as well.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Similarly, most people also agree that: (2) It is wrong to kill a conscious sentient animal for no good reason. Nor ought we kill them without reason.

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Vegetarian Meat Ethics Lacto-Ovo 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

The illustrations of bird behavior–a Laughing Falcon with a kill, Swainson’s, a Crested Caracara with its head thrown back–offer opportunities for a little individual style to shine through. The colors are rich, much deeper and beautiful than the muted inks in my copy of Hawks of North America.

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Mexico America North America Falcons 178

Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

She simply wants to minimize their suffering before they are killed (painlessly?) and their bodies dismembered and processed. Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. Notice that we (including, I assume, the author) would never allow such treatment of a human being.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40

Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2007

They may be killed in order to protect the health of humans (and other animals) if they are infected with a serious disease and cannot be quarantined. But even when the purpose of research is to benefit the animals themselves, inflicting pain or death in the process of research is wrong. Animals cannot give consent.

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