10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
I can’t help noticing that you’ve just posted an angry story about Cecil the Lion on your timeline. And that lions are really cute. Cecil the Lion reached millions, and it exploded all over my social media in a way few conservation stories do (even with my social media heavily biased towards conservation).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Kricher is well-known in naturalist book circles as a scientist who can write about complex scientific topics in engaging smart prose touched with just the right amount of dry wit. I’m sure it must have been on my list of suggested reading for my tour (I just checked my files, and yes, it was).
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Animal Person
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
This is irksome, as the premise is that we need to save the animals (and which ones is an interesting discussion) because we will suffer if they are gone. Corwin tells the story of the Maasai of Kenya, whose culture involved disdain for and slaughter of lions. But again, he's a conservationist, so none of this is a surprise.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2015
Moorcroft Manor isn’t just a lovely place to stay, its a great birding location in its own right. Above the gardens a wheedling just fledged Gymnogene begged fro food from its long suffering parent. It was perhaps unsurprising that the lake at the end of the garden attracted the lion’s share of the birds.
Animal Ethics
JULY 8, 2012
The central case of cruelty appears to be the case where, in Locke's apt phrase, one takes "a seeming kind of Pleasure" in causing another to suffer. Some cruel people do not feel pleasure in making others suffer. Cruelty is manifested in different ways. Let us term this sadistic cruelty. Not all cruel people are cruel in this sense.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
To get out to the deep water we have to cruise for hours which necessitates leaving late in the evening, trying to sleep on an uncomfortable, moving boat, and waking up in the predawn hours to spend not-enough-time amid amazing birds before suffering through the long, boring ride through the “dead zone” back to shore.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2011
He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. Animals suffer when killed. But whether with a flintlock or a modern rifle, hunting cruelly takes the life of a living, sentient being that has as much right to live as any hunter or writer.
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