4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

See a video on how dogs think like us. Marc Hauser, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, recently opened his own such research lab and has 1,000 dogs lined up as subjects. See TIME’s video “ The New Frugality: Doggie Day Care.&#. Hare could run a very profitable shell game. and Europe. Going to the Dogs.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Here is a video of some Wels Catfish foraging on Pigeons. 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.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

The part of the paper available online describes a video in which “the hornbill pair was seen side by side, observing the swiftlets movements entering and/or exiting while being about a foot away from the square entrance of the roof. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, this paper points out that migrating Bramblings prefer to feed in a habitat in which they are less likely to get killed. After not a single reader made any positive comments on my video of a White’s Thrush drinking, of course, my reaction is to just post a link to another such video. You pervert.

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JUNE 17, 2015

Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters. The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears. The 900 acre Maquam bog is designated as a Research Natural Area and the refuge was designated as an Important Bird Area in partnership with the Audubon Society.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

These Blasts From The Past No Owls at Croton Point I Hate Connecticut… Birding Kazakhstan: Morning of Day 1 in Astana Ottawa By Way of Ohio The Snow Bunting That Almost Killed Me, or, Hyperbole in Bird Blog Post Titles is Fun! Germany had lost one of its most promising ornithological researchers, and one of its most active birders.

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MARCH 7, 2017

And, when the eagle fights and ultimately kills the fox, we get a bloody glimpse into another side of eagle hunting—its savagery and its original purpose. Documentaries are not ethnographic research films, they are mediative realities, reflecting an individual’s perspective on a specific person or event. It’s exciting.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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MAY 1, 2023

You can also see the owl not moving much in a short video. The captor monkey killed the bird … by biting off its head” Eurasian Woodcocks are much more likely to be killed by humans than by snub-nosed monkeys. In fact, websites such as this one seem to offer package tours just to kill woodcocks.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

Some of the gruesome details are given in the abstract of the paper: “The monkey killed all the three chicks by biting off their heads while feeding on them. According to Chinese researchers, nest predation and brood parasitism are the two main reasons. Why do nesting attempts of the Red-billed Blue Magpie sometimes fail?

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AUGUST 15, 2019

In it, Bloch becomes LeChiffre, Fleming becomes Mathis and Popov becomes 007 (it does sound a bit better than Tricycle Licensed to Kill), while the rest of the gambling scene remains the same. Living in the Caribbean, in 1953 Fleming was writing the Casino Royale.

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JUNE 8, 2023

The Large-billed Crow ( video ) is one of the natural enemies – in the study above, it predated 19 eggs from four pitta nests. Different from many other parasitic cuckoos, the chick typically does not kill all its nest mates, though one or two of them may die from starvation.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Given the complexity of the research, the result feels like a bit of a letdown – “northern populations start migration earlier than southern populations, especially in autumn” The species name of the Chestnut-eared Bunting is fucata , from the Latin “fucare”, to paint red.

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JULY 4, 2022

Most scientific research really just proves the obvious. In this spirit, Taiwanese researchers studied Red Collared Doves and found that in larger groups, these birds spend less time scanning for danger when in larger groups (and correspondingly had more time for feeding).

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